Orientation priming of novel shapes in the context of viewpoint-dependent recognition.

abstract：:When viewing two conflicting stimuli in a stereoscope, males reported seeing objects significantly more often than human figures. The opposite effect was observed in females. ...

journal_title：Perception

authors： McGuinness D,Symonds J

更新日期：1977-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Boselie and Leeuwenberg (1986) recently defended their version of the minimum principle, called structural information theory or SIT, against a varied set of criticisms. Two of the most notable of these criticisms are (i) that perceptual organization can proceed as a piecemeal, rather than as a global, process (as dem...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Peterson MA,Hochberg J

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A novel child-oriented procedure was used to examine the face-recognition abilities of children as young as 2 years. A recognition task was embedded in a picture book containing a story about two boys and a witch. The story and the task were designed to be entertaining for children of a wide age range. In eight trials...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Brace NA,Hole GJ,Kemp RI,Pike GE,Van Duuren M,Norgate L

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The word-length effect may indicate whether reading is proceeding in an efficient whole-word fashion or by serial letter processing. If it is an index of an orientation-dependent expert reading mechanism, then it should show an inversion effect, with a large difference between upright and upside-down text that is spec...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Björnström LE,Hills C,Hanif H,Barton JJ

更新日期：2014-01-01 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：:Faces are difficult to recognise when presented upside down. This effect of face inversion was effectively demonstrated with the 'Thatcher illusion' by Thompson (1980 Perception 9 483-484). It has been tacitly assumed that this effect is due to inversion relative to retinal coordinates. Here we tested whether it is du...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Lobmaier JS,Mast FW

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Amodal completion occurs when a portion of an object is hidden as a result of its occlusion behind another object. Under these conditions, the object perceived as occluded is seen as a unitary shape, whose boundary contours amodally complete behind the overlapping modal object. Kanizsa (1972, Studia Psychologica 14 20...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Pinna B

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although the Ebbinghaus illusion is commonly used as an example of a simple size-contrast effect, previous studies have emphasised its complexity by identifying many factors that potentially influence the magnitude of the illusion. Here, in a series of three experiments, we attempt to simplify this complexity. In each...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Roberts B,Harris MG,Yates TA

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Earlier studies have shown the size of kinaesthetically presented two-dimensional movement patterns to be significantly overestimated. Whether this size overestimation is characteristic of the kinaesthetic system alone has not been established. Two experiments are reported which were designed to investigate size judgm...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Laszlo JI,Broderick P

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is argued that the experiment carried out by Bross et al is not a valid test of assimilation theory because they confuse a graphic representation of a constant with the construct itself and assume that changing the former will alter the latter. ...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Pressey AW

更新日期：1979-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Visual acuity for the detection of gratings at four orientations was measured for groups of ten boys and ten girls aged five to seven years, from the following four populations: Scots in Glasgow, Pakistanis in Glasgow, Gaels in Stornoway (Outer Hebrides) and East Anglians in Littleport (Cambridgeshire fenlands). The G...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Ross HE,Woodhouse JM

更新日期：1979-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In three experiments, we explored how pigeons use edges, corresponding to orientation and depth discontinuities, in visual recognition tasks. In experiment 1, we compared the pigeon's ability to recognize line drawings of four different geons when trained with shaded images. The birds were trained with either a single...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Peissig JJ,Young ME,Wasserman EA,Biederman I

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Humans exhibit seasonal variation in hormone levels, behaviour, and perception. Here we show that men's assessments of women's attractiveness change also seasonally. In five seasons (from winter 2004 to winter 2005) 114 heterosexual men were asked to assess the attractiveness of the same stimuli: photos of a female wi...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Pawlowski B,Sorokowski P

更新日期：2008-01-01 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：:In the work reported in the literature the reduction or decrement in the magnitude of the Müller-Lyer illusion with continued inspection has been typically investigated with the use of the composite illusion form. Three experiments are reported in which the illusion decrement was separately examined in the underestima...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Predebon J,Stevens K,Petocz A

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of visual movement on saccadic eye movement have been examined. In a classic apparent-movement demonstration with two successively exposed line-segment targets the quality of the movement is dependent on the relative orientation of the line segments. If saccadic eye movements are elicited between the targe...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Findlay JM,Zanuttini L

更新日期：1983-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:When a random-dot screen is used as a background for Ehrenstein figures, brightness enhancement is replaced by a change of grain and structure. Dots in the illusory area appear less densely packed and may be perceived as concentrically organized. When the screen is moved with respect to the Ehrenstein figures, the ill...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Spillmann L,Redies C

更新日期：1981-01-01 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

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：:It has previously been shown that when a moving and a stationary display are superimposed, illusory self-rotation (circular vection) is induced only when the moving display appears as the background. Three experiments are reported on the extent to which illusory forward self-motion (forward vection) induced by a loomi...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Ohmi M,Howard IP

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Classical apparent motion stimuli exhibit an inherent ambiguity with respect to the onsets and offsets of the stimulus elements. Sigman and Rock (1974, Perception 3 9-28) presented evidence suggesting that occlusion cues are used to resolve this ambiguity. We present results from experiments designed to further test p...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Ekroll V,Borzikowsky C

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Maintaining vertical divergence of about 2 diopters for 6, 8, or 10 min was shown to yield an induced vertical phoria (IVP). IVP increased with the duration of the inducing period and decayed with time in the dark, though not completely. Decay of IVP decreased with duration of induction period and increased as a resul...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Ebenholtz SM

更新日期：1978-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A theoretical analysis of the recovery of shape from optic flow highlights the importance of the deformation components; however, pure deforming stimuli elicit few responses from flow-sensitive neurons in the medial superior temporal (MST) area of the cerebral cortex. This finding has prompted the conclusion that MST ...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Ivins J,Porrill J,Frisby J,Orban G

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Japanese male and female undergraduate students judged the gender of a variety of facial images. These images were combinations of the following facial parts: eyebrows, eyes, nose, mouth, and the face outline (cheek and chin). These parts were extracted from averaged facial images of Japanese males and females aged 18...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Yamaguchi MK,Hirukawa T,Kanazawa S

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The accuracy and consistency of absolute pitch (AP) judgments have been measured on three subjects in two longitudinal studies separated by twenty years. The drifts and cyclical variations observed in the earlier study still persisted, and an investigation of two other subjects, one of whom was first studied forty yea...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Wynn VT

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:By varying target size, speed, and extent of visible motion we examined the timing accuracy in motion extrapolation. Small or large targets (0.2 or 0.8 deg) moved at either 2.5, 5, or 10 deg s(-1) across a horizontal path (2.5 or 10 deg) and then vanished behind an occluder. Observers responded when they judged that t...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Sokolov A,Pavlova M

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The differences in P300 latency, P300 amplitude, response selection, and reaction time between skilled and less-skilled cricket batsmen have been investigated. Eight skilled and ten less-skilled right-handed batsmen each viewed 100 in-swing, 100 out-swing, and 40 slower deliveries displayed in random sequence from pro...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Sharhidd Taliep M,St Clair Gibson A,Gray J,van der Merwe L,Vaughan CL,Noakes TD,Kellaway LA,John LR

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of contrast on the perception of stimulus speed for stereomotion and monocular lateral motion was investigated for successive matches in random-dot stimuli. The familiar 'Thompson effect'--that a reduction in contrast leads to a reduction in perceived speed--was found in similar proportions for both binocul...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Brooks K

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Junctions, formed at the intersection of image contours, are thought to play an important and early role in vision. The interest in junctions can be attributed in part to the notion that they are local image features that are easy to detect but that nonetheless provide valuable information about important events in th...

journal_title：Perception

authors： McDermott J

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Perception of raised-line pictures in blindfolded-sighted, congenitally blind, late-blind, and low-vision subjects was studied in a series of experiments. The major aim of the study was to examine the value of perspective drawings for haptic pictures and visually impaired individuals. In experiment 1, subjects felt tw...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Heller MA,Brackett DD,Scroggs E,Steffen H,Heatherly K,Salik S

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00