Expanding angles? Systematic distortions of space involving angular figures.

abstract：:We examined vection induced during physical or simulated head oscillation along either the horizontal or depth axis. In the first two experiments, during active conditions, subjects viewed radial-flow displays which simulated viewpoint oscillation that was either in-phase or out-of-phase with their own tracked head mo...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Ash A,Palmisano S,Kim J

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Through about 130 years of the history of experimental aesthetics, preferences of figures have been summarized in representative values such as the golden ratio. Researches especially in the golden-section hypothesis overshadowed the basic and profound problem of how people's individual preference would be decided. In...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Ohta H

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There is some controversy concerning the youngest age at which an infant will habituate to a visual stimulus or will prefer a novel to a familiar pattern. One suggestion has been that apparently successful reports of habituation and dishabituation in the newborn baby are attributable to retinal adaptation. This interp...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Slater A,Morison V,Rose D

更新日期：1983-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous research into the effects of viewpoint change on face recognition has typically dealt with rotations around the head's vertical axis (yaw). Another common, although less studied, source of viewpoint variation in faces is rotation around the head's horizontal pitch axis (pitch). In the current study we used bo...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Favelle SK,Palmisano S,Maloney RT

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gaps in past literature have raised questions regarding the kinds of stimuli that can lead to three-dimensional (3-D) rotation aftereffects. Further, the characteristics of the buildup and decay of such aftereffects are not clear. In the present experiments, rotation aftereffects were generated by projections of cube-...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Petersik JT

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a geometrical figure in which long vertical lines are each crossed by a series of short oblique lines, an illusory effect is obtained such that the orientations of the long lines are perceived as nonvertical and shifted away from the orientation of the oblique lines (the Zöllner illusion). In addition, the vertical...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Earle DC,Maskell SJ

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The presence of an additional external upright frame was studied in three experiments to separate the role of visuovestibular, global, and local mechanisms in the rod-and-frame illusion (RFI). In the first experiment, carried out in a dark room, the external frame surrounded a large tilted frame. Rod-setting errors to...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Spinelli D,Antonucci G,Daini R,Fanzon D,Zoccolotti P

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:By using techniques for precision ophthalmic tinting, individuals who report perceptual distortion of text can often find a colour of illumination that eliminates the distortions and increases reading speed. Most individuals choose green or blue hues, but there is considerable variability. We investigated how specific...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Wilkins AJ,Sihra N,Myers A

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Displays were presented consisting of a perspective projection of a regular square grid, made up of vertical and horizontal equally spaced white lines, that was slanted in depth. The surface was viewed monocularly, through a circular aperture. A range of slants was shown (0 degree, 10 degrees, 20 degrees, 30 degrees, ...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Tibau S,Willems B,Van den Bergh E,Wagemans J

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In an earlier paper, Caelli and Finlay demonstrated that the perception of apparent motion was contingent on critical phase relationships between inducing sources, and their spatio-temporal frequency ranges. In their original stimulus red-green centre-surround sources were used and phase-specific inhibition was found ...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Finlay D,Caelli T

更新日期：1979-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two experiments were conducted on the orientation anisotropy in which averaged visual evoked potentials (VEPs) were recorded from the occipital scalp. The first experiment confirmed the findings of Maffei and Campbell (1970) that obliquely oriented gratings alternated back and forth produced smaller-amplitude VEPs tha...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Frost BJ,Kaminer JJ

更新日期：1975-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is postulated that there is an uncanny valley, whereby human-like stimuli such as robots or animated characters that fall short of being fully human are perceived as eerie or unsettling. Previous research has explored the existence of this effect for faces and whole bodies, while here we explore responses to photog...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Poliakoff E,Beach N,Best R,Howard T,Gowen E

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Aftereffects of sustained convergence are generally explained as the result of eye muscle potentiation (EMP). Three implications of this hypothesis for aftereffects in distance perception were tested: (i) According to the EMP hypothesis the aftereffects are based on oculomotor distance cues only. The addition of secon...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Heuer H,Lüschow U

更新日期：1983-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated here how partly occluded stimuli affect early and late prehension kinematics. Stimuli were pictures of partly occluded cylindrical objects with indentations or protrusions at regular intervals along the contour. They diverged into two plausible completions: a local completion, comprising a linear conti...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Lommertzen J,Van Lier R,Meulenbroek RG

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The threshold of sensitivity to movement could be governed by mechanisms that are sensitive either to change in spatial position, or directly to the movement itself. The use of spatially complex patterns (random-dot patterns) has been suggested to eliminate the former strategy allowing examination of the movement dete...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Snowden RJ

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The perceptually bistable character of point-light walkers has been examined in three experiments. A point-light figure without explicit depth cues constitutes a perfectly ambiguous stimulus: from all viewpoints, multiple interpretations are possible concerning the depth orientation of the figure. In the first experim...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Vanrie J,Dekeyser M,Verfaillie K

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To investigate the mental mechanism that estimates the duration of sounds, the subjective duration of a tone was measured. In the first experiment a portion of the target sound was replaced with another sound. In the second and third experiments another sound either started or ended in the middle of the target sound. ...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Tsuzaki M,Kato H

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Multisensory integration is a powerful mechanism for maximizing sensitivity to sensory events. We examined its effects on auditory localization in healthy human subjects. The specific objective was to test whether the relative intensity and location of a seemingly irrelevant visual stimulus would influence auditory lo...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Bolognini N,Leo F,Passamonti C,Stein BE,Làdavas E

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Visual-noise masks composed of randomly scattered letter fragments disrupt the recognition of briefly viewed letter arrays when the masks are presented immediately after these arrays. According to the feature-similarity assumption, maximal disruption should occur when the target letters and the letter fragments compri...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Zamansky HS,Corwin TR

更新日期：1976-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Luminance has been found to play a modulating role in the processes of many visual tasks. However, the mechanisms underlying the modulation role of luminance have been little studied, and the conclusions have been controversial. Here, using a dichoptic viewing paradigm by varying the luminance in one eye while measuri...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Li L,Yu Y,Zhou Y

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:By analyzing the projection plane in terms of the projected size of different elements on a surface, it is shown how the direction of the perpendicular, from the station point to the surface, is an important variable in the derivation of the slant angle. It is also shown that the test surfaces used in traditional slan...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Perrone JA

更新日期：1980-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It has been claimed that an illusory figure is prevented from occurring when there is contrary evidence to occlusion, eg when the inducers are pictorial representations of 'complete' three-dimensional (3-D) objects. However, it was recently shown that illusory figures may also be induced by such pictorially 3-D induce...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Purghé F

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Can the motion system selectively process elements at a particular depth? We attempted to answer this question using global coherence tasks in which signal and noise elements could be given different disparities. In experiment 1 we found that, if all the signal elements had a disparity different from that of the noise...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Snowden RJ,Rossiter MC

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Subjects were exposed to an optical rotation of visual reafferences from hand movements. This is known to produce visuomotor adaptation. An experiment is reported where it also induced a perceptual aftereffect measured as a displacement of the apparent vertical and as an ocular cyclotorsion, both in the direction of t...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Courjon JH,Jeannerod M,Prablanc C

更新日期：1981-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated audiovisual speed perception to test the maximum-likelihood-estimation (MLE) model of multisensory integration. According to MLE, audiovisual speed perception will be based on a weighted average of visual and auditory speed estimates, with each component weighted by its inverse variance, a statisticall...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Bentvelzen A,Leung J,Alais D

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Structure-from-motion (SFM) perception is hypothesised to be mediated by units that sense the near-far relationships in transparency-from-motion (TFM) and orientation-from-motion (OFM). The frequency of subjective reversals during observation of ambiguous SFM displays is considerably decreased when either the directio...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Poom L

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Subjects were presented with projections of either rectangular or elliptic forms which appeared either on their own or upon the following figures: (a) a face of a portrayed cube, (b) a parallelogram identical with (a), and (c) a rectangle of equal width and area to (a). Four different angles of projection were used fo...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Kaess DW,Deregowski JB

更新日期：1980-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two experiments were performed to examine the suggestion that underlying memory mechanisms may be revealed in the form of the psychophysical function for duration. In experiment 1 a broad range of durations, with fine spacing at the lower end, was employed to bring out any transition in function that might reflect a c...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Waterworth JA

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The approach of an object can be monitored from its optic flow. More specifically, it has been postulated that time-to-collision at constant velocity is perceived by relating visual angle theta to its rate of change theta, time-to-collision being theta/theta. This hypothesis is reappraised, and an alternative based on...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Stewart D,Cudworth CJ,Lishman JR

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Binocular rivalry was induced between two orthogonal square-wave gratings of the same spatial frequency, luminance, contrast, and field size, presented dichoptically. One of the gratings could be instantly replaced by a third grating differing only in orientation. In one experiment subjects were required to respond as...

journal_title：Perception

authors： O'Shea RP,Crassini B

更新日期：1981-01-01 00:00:00