Random-dot motion displaces Ehrenstein illusion.

abstract：:In this paper we demonstrate the existence of simultaneous lightness contrast in displays in which the target patches are both more luminant than their surrounds. These effects are not predicted by theories of lightness that assume that the highest luminance in a scene is perceived as white, and anchors all the other ...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Bressan P,Actis-Grosso R

更新日期：2001-01-01 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：:Can visual similarity between shapes facilitate orientation priming? Five experiments are reported in which this possibility was explored by using novel two-dimensional shapes that formed homogeneous stimulus classes. After training on individual shapes in a canonical view, the recognition of these shapes was tested i...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Gauthier I,Tarr MJ

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An experiment is described in which newborn infants' processing of stimulus compounds was investigated. After familiarization to two alternately presented stimuli which differed in colour and orientation, the newborns showed significant preferences for a stimulus which had a novel colour/orientation combination: the n...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Slater A,Mattock A,Brown E,Burnham D,Young A

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mach bands are illusory bright and dark bands seen where a luminance plateau meets a ramp, as in half shadows or penumbras. It has previously been shown that Mach bands are attenuated by placing stimuli, such as bars, nearby. It was shown in an experiment in which Mach-band attenuation for bar and Craik-O'Brien stimul...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Pessoa L

更新日期：1996-01-01 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：:In prior work from this laboratory, we have examined how accurately subjects can judge collinearity, i.e. alignment, as a function of the angular position of stimulus elements. In those experiments, subjects were presented with a line segment (or a pair of dots) which varied across the 360 degrees range of angular pos...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Greene E,Frawley W

更新日期：2001-01-01 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：:We compared the contribution and the effectiveness of modulating the orientation perception of two types of visual information: the visual frame and the visual polarity of objects. In experiment 1, we examined the effect of a square frame, a mouse, an elephant, and a map of France on the apparent vertical. In the upri...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Cian C,Raphel C,Barraud PA

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Groups of high- (n = 14), intermediate- (n = 12), and low-skilled (n = 15) cricket batsmen participated in two experiments to examine expertise-related differences in anticipatory information pick-up that combined temporal and spatial occlusion methodologies. In experiment 1 participants were shown video displays of a...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Müller S,Abernethy B,Eid M,McBean R,Rose M

更新日期：2010-01-01 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：: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：:Radial optic flow can elicit impressions of self-motion--vection--or of objects moving relative to the observer, but there is disagreement as to whether humans have greater sensitivity to expanding or to contracting optic flow. Although most studies agree there is an anisotropy in sensitivity to radial optic flow, it ...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Mueller AS,Timney B

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In their seminal study Diamond and Carey (1986, Journal of Experimental Psychology: General 115 107-117) found a larger inversion effect for dog pictures in dog experts than novices, supporting a role of visual expertise in the observation of particularly large inversion effects for faces. However, subsequent studies ...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Rossion B,Curran T

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We present a novel three-dimensional (3-D) version of Rubin's classical bistable goblet-profiles figure. An actual goblet sculpture was produced and rotated on a turntable in front of a white background. As the goblet rotates about its central axis, small circular asymmetries around the lips and chin region give a cle...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Wake H,Wake T,Oyama T

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The method of constant stimuli was used to examine the accuracy with which two-dimensional spatial information can be represented in mental images. In experiment 1, subjects had to decide which of two successively presented two-dot separations was wider. Over the range of interstimulus intervals employed (0 to 30s), t...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Hole GJ

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The human visual system is sensitive to both first-order variations in luminance and second-order variations in local contrast and texture. Although there is some debate about the nature of second-order vision and its relationship to first-order processing, there is now a body of results showing that they are processe...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Schofield AJ

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three experiments are reported in which it is tested whether the Gestalt effect of configural orientation on shape perception operates on two-dimensional (2-D) or three-dimensional (3-D) representations of space. It is known that gravitationally defined squares and diamonds take longer to discriminate in diagonal arra...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Palmer S,Simone E,Kube P

更新日期：1988-01-01 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：:It is well established that motion aftereffects (MAEs) can show interocular transfer (IOT); that is, motion adaptation in one eye can give a MAE in the other eye. Different quantification methods and different test stimuli have been shown to give different IOT magnitudes, varying from no to almost full IOT. In this st...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Tao R,Lankheet MJ,van de Grind WA,van Wezel RJ

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:When extended outdoor scenes are imaged with magnification of 1 in optical, electronic, or computer-generated displays, scene features appear smaller and farther than in direct view. This has been shown to occur in various periscopic and camera-viewfinder displays outdoors in daylight. In four experiments it was found...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Meehan JW

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The appearance of objects depends on their material, shape, and on the illumination conditions. Conversely, object appearance provides us with cues about the illumination and the material. This so-called inverse problem is basically underdetermined and therefore we expect that material and illumination perception are ...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Pont SC,te Pas SF

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Most cognitive scientists know that an airplane tends to lose its engine when the display is flickering. How does such prior experience influence visual search? We recorded eye movements made by vision researchers while they were actively performing a change-detection task. In selected trials, we presented Rensink's f...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Takahashi K,Watanabe K

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Some observations suggest that, contrary to Taylor and Woodhouse's assumption, a strong relationship exists between the Taylor-Woodhouse and Münsterberg distortion illusions. An attempt is made to show that each of the major explanations put forward to account for the occurrence of the Münsterberg effect suits the Tay...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Bressan P

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An optical-geometrical illusion, described by Delboeuf and not familiar to specialists, is investigated. The results of two experiments show that the divergence between a bar filled with parallel slanting lines and a line drawn above it is clearly related to this angle of the lines which fill the bar. The illusion is ...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Vicario GB,Vidotto G,Zambianchi E

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We identified the graphical perceptual information needs of older adults (≥60 years of age) through a set of psychophysical experiments on bar, stacked, and pie charts. The results are compared with those of a general population (<60 years of age). We conducted the experiments as online remote studies with 202 total p...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Le T,Aragon C,Thompson HJ,Demiris G

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Burt and Julesz experimentally demonstrated that, in addition to Panum's fusional area, a quantity defined by them and named disparity gradient also plays a crucial part in deciding whether the human visual system would be able to fuse the images seen by the left and right eyes. The physical meaning of this quantity r...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Trivedi HP,Lloyd SA

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sex differences were investigated in two experiments on visual persistence: the Ganzfeld and the afterimage. Males were found to hold visual sensation longer than females, particularly in the Ganzfeld where there was little overlap of scores. Variability of experience in the Ganzfeld was also greater for males and the...

journal_title：Perception

authors： McGuinness D,Lewis I

更新日期：1976-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Crossmodal linkage between the olfactory and visual senses is still largely underexplored. In this study, we investigated crossmodal olfactory-visual associations by testing whether and how visual processing of objects is affected by the presence of olfactory cues. To this end, we explored the influence of prior learn...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Seigneuric A,Durand K,Jiang T,Baudouin JY,Schaal B

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the Freezing Rotation illusion a stimulus rotating with a constant velocity is perceived as stationary on the screen, when it is presented in front of a background pattern that moves with a sinusoidal velocity profile, during the phase in which stimulus and background rotate in the same direction. It has been sugge...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Wertheim AH,Paffen CL

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00