Speed discrimination under stabilized and normal viewing conditions.

abstract：:Studies of spatial summation often use sinusoidal gratings with blurred edges. When the envelope is elongated (i) along the grating stripes and (ii) at right angles to the grating stripes, we refer to the stimuli as skunk-tails and tiger-tails respectively. Previous work [Polat & Tyler, 1999; Vision Research, 39, 887-...

journal_title：Vision research

authors： Meese TS,Hess RF

更新日期：2007-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of perspective transformation on transfer of face training was investigated in a yes/no recognition task using face stimuli with 42 degrees, 10 degrees, or no perspective convergence. A strong dependence of recognition performance on the magnitude of perspective transformation was found, with large perspect...

journal_title：Vision research

authors： Liu CH,Chaudhuri A

更新日期：2003-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is generally held that protanopes and deuteranopes see only regions of blues and yellows in the visible spectrum, with an achromatic point, called the neutral point, separating these regions. Considerations of a zone model of color vision for the dichromatic observer led us to predict that a reduced form of red/gre...

journal_title：Vision research

authors： Cicerone CM,Nagy AL,Nerger JL

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Large and small letter contrast sensitivity and visual acuity were assessed in 37 elderly eyes (mean VA -0.01 logMAR, Snellen 6/6) and their lens opacities were categorised and graded using the LOCS III system. Large letter contrast sensitivity was often not reduced in cataract from age-matched normal values and provi...

journal_title：Vision research

authors： Elliott DB,Situ P

更新日期：1998-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vernier thresholds are known to be elevated when a target pair has opposite contrast polarity. Polarity reversal is used to assess the role of luminance and chromatic pathways in hyperacuity performance. Psychophysical hyperacuity thresholds were measured for pairs of gratings of various combinations of luminance (Lum...

journal_title：Vision research

authors： Sun H,Cooper B,Lee BB

更新日期：2012-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We used a tracking method to measure errors in estimating absolute time-to-collision caused by adapting to an expanding target. After adaptation, the estimated time-to-collision was longer than in the baseline condition. This was the case whether estimates were based on binocular information alone or monocular informa...

journal_title：Vision research

authors： Gray R,Regan D

更新日期：1999-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Velocity and acceleration characteristics provide valuable information about dynamic control of accommodation. We investigated velocity and acceleration of disaccommodation (near-far focusing) from three starting positions. Peak velocity and peak acceleration of disaccommodation increased with the proximity of startin...

journal_title：Vision research

authors： Bharadwaj SR,Schor CM

更新日期：2006-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It has been suggested that binding coherent targets depends on the capacity of excited cortical cells to fire in synchrony at approximately 40 Hz. However, the origin of stimulus-related cortical oscillations is still not clear. We hypothesized that 40 Hz oscillations might propagate to the visual cortex from the late...

journal_title：Vision research

authors： Molotchnikoff S,Shumikhina S

更新日期：1996-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Finger pointing is a natural human behavior frequently used to draw attention to specific parts of sensory input. Since this pointing behavior is likely preceded and/or accompanied by the deployment of attention by the pointing person, we hypothesize that pointing can be used as a natural means of providing self-repor...

journal_title：Vision research

authors： Jeck DM,Qin M,Egeth H,Niebur E

更新日期：2017-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Spatiotemporal boundary formation (SBF) refers to perception of continuous contours, shape, and global motion from sequential transformations of widely separated surface elements. How such minimal information in SBF can produce whole forms and the nature of the computational processes involved remain mysterious. Forma...

journal_title：Vision research

authors： Erlikhman G,Kellman PJ

更新日期：2016-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The contrast transfer function (CTF) of the pattern electroretinogram (PERG) depends on temporal frequency. For transient stimulation it is fully linear; at faster stimulation rates it becomes strongly non-linear with an accelerated shape. In this study we investigated a range of stimulus parameters with the aim of st...

journal_title：Vision research

authors： Ben-Shlomo G,Bach M,Ofri R

更新日期：2007-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Perception of short-range motion was studied as a function of adapting luminance and of stimulus contrast in computer simulations and in psychophysical experiments. The stimuli were random dots plotted on an oscilloscope in two sequential frames, separated by an inter-stimulus interval (ISI). Both in the simulations a...

journal_title：Vision research

authors： Dawson M,Di Lollo V

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:While saccadic eye movements produce rapid shift of images of objects on the retina, the visual world is perceived as stationary (visual stability), but the precise mechanisms involved in such perception remain unclear. We investigated if visual stimuli existing before and/or after a saccade serve to preserve visual s...

journal_title：Vision research

authors： Honda H

更新日期：2006-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Camouflage is the primary defense in cuttlefish. The rich repertoire of their body patterns can be categorized into three types: uniform, mottle, and disruptive. Several recent studies have characterized spatial features of substrates responsible for eliciting these body patterns on natural and artificial backgrounds....

journal_title：Vision research

authors： Chiao CC,Chubb C,Buresch K,Siemann L,Hanlon RT

更新日期：2009-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We present a method for recording eye-head movements with the magnetic search coil technique in a small external magnetic field. Since magnetic fields are typically non-linear, except in a relative small region in the center small field frames have not been used for head-unrestrained experiments in oculomotor studies....

journal_title：Vision research

authors： Thomassen JS,Benedetto GD,Hess BJ

更新日期：2010-06-18 00:00:00

abstract：:The foveal region of the retina has a yellow pigmentation composed primarily of the carotenoids lutein and zeaxanthin. Past studies have shown that cigarette smoking depresses carotenoid concentrations in the blood. This is the first report on the effects of cigarette smoking on carotenoids in the retina. Macular pigm...

journal_title：Vision research

authors： Hammond BR Jr,Wooten BR,Snodderly DM

更新日期：1996-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Less accommodation was found when human subjects read in blue (peak at about 440 nm) than when they read in red light (above 600 nm; [Kroger & Binder, British Journal of Ophthalmology 84 (2000) 890]). On the other hand, emmetropization in chickens did not appear to compensate for the chromatic defocus (385 nm v...

journal_title：Vision research

authors： Seidemann A,Schaeffel F

更新日期：2002-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The properties of impulse responses of blowfly photoreceptors in light and dark adaptation were studied with brief (30 mu sec) white light flashes applied with different repetition frequencies, thereby producing a range of interstimulus periods (ISPs) from 200 msec to 100 sec. The amplitude of the impulse response as ...

journal_title：Vision research

authors： Weckström M

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In typical binocular rivalry demonstrations, disparate images presented in corresponding locations to the two eyes are found to alternate perceptually over time. Alternation in perception can occur even if the images presented to the two eyes do not overlap, if they are sufficiently close in space. This implies a spat...

journal_title：Vision research

authors： Nichols DF,Wilson HR

更新日期：2009-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two visually evoked brain responses were elicited simultaneously by stimulating the eye with two superimposed sinewave grating patterns that were temporally modulated at slightly different rates. The VEP to one grating was comparatively little affected by the presence of the other grating when the two spatial frequenc...

journal_title：Vision research

authors： Regan D

更新日期：1983-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Achromatic losses in glaucoma would be expected to be greater than, or equal to, red-green chromatic losses if the following assumptions are made: (1) the function of the remaining axons is either unchanged or non-selectively reduced; (2) red-green chromatic information is signaled by the midget ganglion cell system; ...

journal_title：Vision research

authors： Alvarez SL,Pierce GE,Vingrys AJ,Benes SC,Weber PA,King-Smith PE

更新日期：1997-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A major factor underlying the prolonged postnatal improvement of visual acuity in primates is an increase in the sampling limit imposed by the photoreceptor mosaic, which may be as much as 5-fold. Further factors operating peripheral to neurons of the lateral geniculate nucleus, which might include changes in neural c...

journal_title：Vision research

authors： Jacobs DS,Blakemore C

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The minimum stimulus necessary to define motion is a change in position from one location to another in time, but past studies have provided evidence that the human motion system integrates motion over more than two positions. In this study we demonstrate strong sequential interactions affecting perceived direction in...

journal_title：Vision research

authors： Welch L,Macleod DI,Mckee SP

更新日期：1997-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Studying color preferences provides a means to discover how perceptual experiences map onto cognitive and affective judgments. A challenge is finding a parsimonious way to describe and predict patterns of color preferences, which are complex with rich individual differences. One approach has been to model color prefer...

journal_title：Vision research

authors： Schloss KB,Lessard L,Racey C,Hurlbert AC

更新日期：2018-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We examined the ability of human observers to detect three kinds of statistical structure in binary arrays: first-order statistics (luminance), local fourth-order statistics (isodipole textures), and long-range statistics (bilateral symmetry). Performance was closest to ideal on the luminance task and furthest from id...

journal_title：Vision research

authors： Victor JD,Conte MM

更新日期：2005-04-01 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. A tremendous amount of work has been devoted to studying the psychophysics and the potential underlying neural circuitry concerning this phenomenon. A number of theoretical models also have been ...

journal_title：Vision research

authors： Pessoa L

更新日期：1996-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A model of darkness induction based on a neural filling-in mechanism is proposed. The model borrows principles from both Land's Retinex theory and BCS/FCS filling-in model of Grossberg and colleagues. The main novel assumption of the induction model is that darkness filling-in signals, which originate at luminance bor...

journal_title：Vision research

authors： Rudd ME,Arrington KF

更新日期：2001-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of monocular deprivation (MD) on the crossed and uncrossed visual projections were studied using both electrophysiological and behavioural criteria. Our results show that Visual Evoked Potentials (VEPs) from the deprived eye (DE) in response to contrast reversing gratings are more reduced in the ipsilatera...

journal_title：Vision research

authors： Bisti S,Carmignoto G

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have investigated first-order artifacts in second-order motion perception. Subjects were required to identify the orientation and direction of a drifting sinusoidal contrast modulation. When the carrier consisted of static two-dimensional noise, performance often reflected the use of first-order artifacts that aris...

journal_title：Vision research

authors： Smith AT,Ledgeway T

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three experiments were performed to verify O'Regan's (1979) [Perception & Psychophysics, 25 (6), 501-509] finding that in reading, the eye moves further forward when going towards the word 'THE' than when going towards a three-letter verb. The experiments were performed in French instead of English, and compared the p...

journal_title：Vision research

authors： Gautier V,O'Regan JK,Le Gargasson JF

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00