Modifications of the classical notion of Panum's fusional area.

abstract：:The travelling salesperson problem (TSP) provides a realistic and practical example of a visuo-spatial problem-solving task. In previous research, we have found that the quality of solutions produced by human participants for small TSPs compares well with solutions from a range of computer algorithms. We have proposed...

journal_title：Perception

authors： MacGregor JN,Ormerod TC,Chronicle EP

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The characteristics of human sniffing episodes during odour perception have been described in an earlier paper, where it has been suggested that the techniques used by individuals may be close to those providing optimum perception. To investigate this suggestion, threshold and intensity tests with butanol, cyclohexano...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Laing DG

更新日期：1983-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A study is reported which shows that accommodation can be stimulated by a blur stimulus which is below the threshold for visual perception. It is also shown that perceptual fading of the target, caused by stabilization of the retinal image (Troxler phenomenon), can eliminate the accommodative response causing it to de...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Kotulak JC,Schor CM

更新日期：1986-01-01 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：:Eight young (average age 20.4 years) and eight elderly (average age 64.4 years) observers took part in three experiments designed to study age-related changes in peripheral retinal function. A further eight young (average age 22.3 years) and eight elderly (average age 63.8 years) observers took part in a replication o...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Crassini B,Brown B,Bowman K

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Unfamiliar odours are harder to discriminate than familiar odours. We explored the phenomenal basis of this difference. In experiments la and 1b, participants profiled odour quality for two sets of familiar and unfamiliar odours. In both cases unfamiliar odours were redolent of more odour qualities than familiar stimu...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Mingo SA,Stevenson RJ

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated the influence of viewing angle on performance in recognising the identity of one's own person and familiar individuals such as friends or colleagues from walking patterns. Viewpoint-dependent recognition performance was tested in two groups of twelve persons who knew each other very well. Participants'...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Jokisch D,Daum I,Troje NF

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:When a large optic-flow pattern is viewed, induced self-motion perception (vection) can result even for observers who are stationary relative to Earth. Vection is common in optokinetic drums, large-screen cinemas, vehicle simulators, and other virtual environments. However, not all optic-flow patterns are equally effe...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Bubka A,Bonato F

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Roncato and Casco (2003, Perception & psychophysics 65 1252-1272) had shown that in situations where the Gestalt principle of good continuity is put into conflict with preservation of contrast polarity (CP) the perception that preserves CP prevails. Parlangeli and Roncato (2010, Perception 39 255-259) have studied thi...

journal_title：Perception

authors： McCormick MC,Hon AJ,Huang AE,Altschuler EL

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Our brain continually integrates bottom-up sensory signals to create a coherent experience of the body. This bodily experience is also constrained by top-down knowledge of body appearance. However, the extent of these constraints has been challenged. Here, we explore top-down limits on body ownership with the invisibl...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Byrne A,Preston C

更新日期：2019-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The AMBEGUJAS phenomenon is a reversible flat figure that is spontaneously shifting between two apparent 3-D shapes-'tile' and 'roof'. 2-D perceptions have very rarely been reported. Tied to the shifts between the tile and roof shapes are remarkable changes of perceived colour. In our example, the tile appears to have...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Bergström SS

更新日期：2004-01-01 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：:Laboratory measures of visual reaction time suggest that some aspects of high-speed ball games such as cricket are 'impossible' because there is insufficient time for the player to respond to unpredictable movements of the ball. Given the success with which some people perform these supposedly impossible acts, it has ...

journal_title：Perception

authors： McLeod P

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Under suitable conditions, pupillary dilation is a reliable index of processing activity. Pupil size was tracked in male and female observers following the presentation of face stimuli for an age-judgment task. The eyes on the faces were either directed towards the observer or deviated to the side. Pupil dilation acco...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Porter G,Hood BM,Troscianko T

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Children aged 3-4 years were tested for their ability to decide which of two photographs or drawings of a face depicted the act of fixating on a target object; in each control photograph or drawing the same face and object were present without fixation. Performance was above chance on both stimulus types, but low enou...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Anderson JR,Doherty MJ

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:First, we criticize the validity of the principle of lateral inhibition. Second, on the basis of illusory phenomena and stabilized retinal images, we point out that the retina does not code the absolute luminance; the retina forwards a relative luminance sketch towards higher levels of the visual system. However, at t...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Geier J,Hudák M

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Changes in the spectral content of wide-band auditory stimuli have been repeatedly implicated as a possible cue to the distance of a sound source. Few of the previous studies of this factor, however, have considered whether the cue provided by spectral content serves as an absolute or a relative cue. That is, can diff...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Little AD,Mershon DH,Cox PH

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bodily illusions differently affect body representations underlying perception and action. We investigated whether this task dependence reflects two distinct dimensions of embodiment: the sense of agency and the sense of the body as a coherent whole. In experiment 1 the sense of agency was manipulated by comparing act...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Kammers MP,Longo MR,Tsakiris M,Dijkerman HC,Haggard P

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:How are works of art that present scenes that match potential expectations processed in the brain, in contrast to such scenes that can never occur in real life because they would violate physical laws? Using functional magnetic resonance imaging, we investigated the processing of surrealistic and naturalistic images i...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Silveira S,Graupmann V,Frey D,Blautzik J,Meindl T,Reiser M,Chen C,Wang Y,Bao Y,PöppeI E,Gutyrchik E

更新日期：2012-01-01 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：:It is well-known that people recognize faces of their own race more accurately than faces of other races-a phenomenon often referred to as the 'other-race effect'. Using brief presentations of faces, we show a similar effect for the task of discriminating the sex of a face. Specifically, Caucasian observers discrimina...

journal_title：Perception

authors： O'Toole AJ,Peterson J,Deffenbacher KA

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In three-dimensional configurations, and two-dimensional pictures of such configurations, simultaneous contrast induction from proximate backgrounds affects perceived brightness, color, and internal contrast to a greater extent than induction from coplanar or occluding surrounds or from more distant backgrounds. In th...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Zaidi Q,Spehar B,Shy M

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The face inversion effect is considered by some as a marker ofholistic or configural processing. In an effort to understand the relations between object orientation and the use of configuration for recognition, we explored the extent to which the combination of information across discrete, spatially separated object f...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Bushmakin MA,James TW

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A veridical estimate of viewing distance is required in order to determine the metric structure of objects from binocular stereopsis. One example of a judgment of metric structure, which we used in our experiment, is the apparently circular cylinder task (E B Johnston, 1991 Vision Research 31 1351-1360). Most studies ...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Glennerster A,Rogers BJ,Bradshaw MF

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Anomalous motion illusions represent a popular class of illusions and several studies have made an effort to explain their perception. However, understanding is still inconsistent. Age-related differences in susceptibility to illusory motion may contribute to further clarification of the underlying processing mechanis...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Billino J,Hamburger K,Gegenfurtner KR

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using simple, single angular figures, including figures containing only one line, we have shown systematic misestimations of distance defined by these figures. These misestimations are not related to the absolute distance per se, but are related both to the size of the angle defining the distance, and to the part of t...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Heywood S,Chessell K

更新日期：1977-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although the observer's motion can elicit perception of relative depth, it is less successful in doing so when competing pictorial information is available. However, the evidence for this may be affected by limited extents of motion and by equidistance tendencies. Results obtained when monocular observers judged the o...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Reinhardt-Rutland AH

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is purported that the local perceptual style characteristic of those with autism results in them reproducing line drawings in a more localised manner than comparison individuals. Here we report an exception to this: the drawing strategies of those with autism were more global. When reproducing line drawings depicti...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Sheppard E,Ropar D,Mitchell P

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Perception of control is known to affect performance under stress. Two experiments are reported the object of which was to find out how loud noise during a contingency assessment task influences perceived control. Subjects were required to choose one of two responses, note one of two results, and then provide an overa...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Fisher S,Ledwith M

更新日期：1984-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two experiments are described in which it was investigated whether the adaptation on which motion aftereffects (MAEs) are based is a response to retinal image motion alone or to the motion signal derived from the process which combines the image motion signal with information about eye movement (corollary discharge). ...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Mack A,Hill J,Kahn S

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00