Influence of spatial frequency, luminance, and duration on binocular rivalry and abnormal fusion of briefly presented dichoptic stimuli.

abstract：:Naive sighted subjects tested under blind conditions were able to match raised dot (Braille letters) patterns relatively accurately by touch, but showed no advantage in judging identical pairs over different pairs of patterns. This was the case also for letters subjects had been taught to name. Instructions to match o...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Millar S

更新日期：1977-01-01 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：:Coupling a motion aftereffect (MAE) produced by horizontal shearing motion with a lateral head movement yields apparent depth. In experiments 1 and 2, respectively, the magnitude and the decay time of this apparent depth were measured. In experiment 3, it was found that the stimulus that produced an MAE in experiments...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Ono H,Ujike H

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The generic-view principle (GVP) states that given a 2-D image the visual system interprets it as a generic view of a 3-D scene when possible. The GVP was applied to 3-D-motion perception to show how the visual system decomposes retinal image motion into three components of 3-D motion: stretch/shrinkage, rotation, and...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Kitazaki M,Shimojo S

更新日期：1996-01-01 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：:A fundamental challenge in face recognition lies in determining which facial characteristics are important in the identification of faces. Several studies have indicated the significance of certain facial features in this regard, particularly internal ones such as the eyes and mouth. Surprisingly, however, one rather ...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Sadr J,Jarudi I,Sinha P

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:'Rotating snakes' is an illusory figure in which the 'snakes' are perceived to rotate. We report that when the image moves smoothly, the snakes do not appear to rotate, although the retinal images are continuously refreshed. Therefore, to produce the illusion, the image should remain stationary (without being refreshe...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Tomimatsu E,Ito H,Seno T,Sunaga S

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Averaged face composites, which represent the central tendency of a familiar population of faces, are attractive. If this prototypicality contributes to their appeal, then averaged composites should be more attractive when their component faces come from a familiar, own-race population than when they come from a less ...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Rhodes G,Lee K,Palermo R,Weiss M,Yoshikawa S,Clissa P,Williams T,Peters M,Winkler C,Jeffery L

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Numerous studies have shown that visual stimuli can bias the perceived location of auditory stimuli. Here, we sought to determine if a visual stimulus can also bias the perceived location of multiple internal auditory stimuli. Fifty subjects were presented with a train of eight binaural click-pairs over headphones whi...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Dellorso S,Schirillo J

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Spatial-Numerical Association of Response Codes (SNARC) effect refers to the phenomenon that small versus large numbers are responded to faster in the left versus right side of space, respectively. Using a pairwise comparison task, Shaki et al. found that task instruction influences the pattern of SNARC effects of...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Lee D,Chun J,Cho S

更新日期：2016-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the present study, we examined ascription of bizarreness to faces in a ratings task by children aged 8-10 and 11-13 years, and by adults. Configural information was manipulated subtly (a single eye was inverted) or in a more salient manner (eye and mouth were inverted). By utilizing brief presentations we restricte...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Anes MD,Short LA

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Visual representation of three-dimensional (3-D) objects in our environment is a crucial question, for human as well as for machine vision. Some basics are reviewed of a viewer-centred model of 3-D objects, aspect graphs, which represents a 3-D object by all its topologically stable visible image contours (its aspects...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Van Effelterre T

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A thorough analysis of the literature on retinal image stabilization, as well as our own experimental data, present evidence that Yarbus's concept, implying inevitable and irreversible fading of a visible image evoked by stabilized retinal stimulus of any size, color, and luminance in 1 to 3 s after its onset, is not ...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Rozhkova GI,Nikolaev PP

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A stereoscopic illusion is produced by manipulating the binocular disparity of the irises in stereo pairs of human faces. These stimuli elicit unnatural percepts of the irises popping out of the face or sinking in inside the head. ...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Papathomas TV,Morikawa K

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pain synaesthetes experience pain in a presensitised region when observing or imagining another person in pain. We conducted an upper-limb embodiment study using a modified rubber-hand illusion in which lower-limb amputees originally participated as control subjects for the upper-limb amputees. While we found all subj...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Giummarra MJ,Fitzgibbon BM,Georgiou-Karistianis N,Nicholls ME,Gibson SJ,Bradshaw JL

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Perception of real depth includes information on stereopsis and distance. How both interact in the visual pathway was the subject of a study performed on the behaving monkey. Neurons in the primary visual cortex (area V1) have their activity, visual and/or spontaneous, modulated by the viewing distance. Disparity sele...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Trotter Y

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The global effect in eye orienting occurs when saccades land at the 'centre of gravity' of a target stimulus configuration. Short-latency saccades are particularly prone to this effect whereas longer-latency saccades may show more influence of fine detail. Alternative explanations of these effects are considered and d...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Findlay JM,Gilchrist ID

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The scintillating grid illusion refers to the illusory perception of black spots on luminance patches at the intersections of a grey grid on a black background. We examined how spatial parameters of luminance patches modulated the strength of the illusion. In experiment 1, we controlled the size and shape of the lumin...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Qian K,Yamada Y,Kawabe T,Miura K

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hunger was found to facilitate visually induced illusory upward and downward self-motions (vertical vection), but not illusory self-motion in depth (vection in depth). We propose that the origin of this hunger effect lies in the possibility that vertical self-motions (both real and illusory) are more likely to induce ...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Seno T,Ito H,Sunaga S,Palmisano S

更新日期：2012-01-01 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：:Recognition of unfamiliar faces is difficult in part due to variations in expressions, angles, and image quality. Studies suggest shape and surface properties play varied roles in face learning, and identification of unfamiliar faces uses diagnostic pigmentation/surface reflectance relative to shape information. Here,...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Sandford A,Pec D,Hatfield AN

更新日期：2021-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Ternus display is a moving visual stimulus which elicits two very different percepts, according to the length of the interstimulus interval (ISI) between each frame of the motion sequence. These two percepts, referred to as element motion and group motion, have previously been analysed in terms of the operation of...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Scott-Samuel NE,Hess RF

更新日期：2001-01-01 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

abstract：:A technique of monocular eye patching was used to measure the response of infants three and four months old to nasally and temporally placed stimuli at various eccentricities in the visual field. The results indicated a field of field of binocular overlap of approximately 60 deg in infants three months old and 80 deg ...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Finlay D,Quinn K,Ivinskis A

更新日期：1982-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Following Karwoski, Odbert, and Osgood (1942, Journal of General Psychology 26 199-222), it is proposed that cross-sensory correspondences can arise from extensive, bi-directional cross-activation between dimensions of connotative meaning. If this account is correct, the same set of cross-sensory correspondences (eg b...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Walker L,Walker P,Francis B

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

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：:Humans understand mechanical events to involve physical bodies interacting by contact, but intentional events involve agents that can also interact at a distance. We investigated infant sensitivity to causality in a simple event in which one agent appears to react to another without contact. Infants 9 months old were ...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Schlottmann A,Surian L

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tempo is one factor that is frequently associated with the expressive nature of a piece of music. Composers often indicate the tempo of a piece of music through the use of numerical markings (beats min(-1)) and subjective terms (adagio, allegro). Three studies were conducted to assess whether listeners were able to ma...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Quinn S,Watt R

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Quinn and Watt (2006 Perception 35 267-280) showed that the optimal tempi for pieces of music (ie the appropriate speed for a melody) vary from melody to melody. The current study tested if such tempi responses depend on previous stimulus presentations. To do this, we ran a many-participants single-presentation versio...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Quinn SC,Watt RJ

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A narrow bar or line (width around 1 arcmin) between two fields of which the luminances are sinusoidally and in counterphase modulated in time appears to make an oscillatory movement. It is possible to annihilate this illusory movement with a real movement and thus to analyze this phenomenon quantitatively. Confirming...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Jansonius M,Stam L,de Jong T,Pijpker BA

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00