A system of regular ridges instead of nipples on a compound eye that has to operate near the diffraction limit.

abstract：:Electrophysiological recording and microspectrophotometry were used to analyze retinal function in representatives of the two surviving genera of holostean grade fish--the bowfin (Amia calva) and gars (Lepisosteus sp.). The properties of the cone photopigments, horizontal cells and ganglion cells show that these holos...

journal_title：Vision research

authors： Burkhardt DA,Gottesman J,Levine JS,MacNichol EF Jr

更新日期：1983-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Following an extensive single subject pilot study 12 Ss viewed a continuously cycling (3 Hz), two stimulus, apparent motion (AM) display. The "AM breakdown effect" was utilised to gather visual evoked potentials (VEPs) from sites O1, O2, T5, T6, P3, and P4 during periods in which the display elicited either: the perce...

journal_title：Vision research

authors： Manning ML,Finlay DC,Fenelon B

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The discovery of visual sensitivity to UV dates from 1882 and was made in an insect, the ant, but in the last 15 years evidence for photoreceptors maximally sensitive in the UV has been found for many vertebrates. Studies of behavioral responses of insects that possess more than one spectral class of photoreceptor hav...

journal_title：Vision research

authors： Goldsmith TH

更新日期：1994-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:(-)[3H]Noradrenaline and [3H]clonidine bind in a saturable fashion to membrane preparations of bovine retinas. The dissociation constant for (-)[3H]noradrenaline is about 26 nM and for [3H]clonidine approximately 11.7 nM. The degree of (-)[3H]noradrenaline and [3H]clonidine binding associated with subcellular fraction...

journal_title：Vision research

authors： Osborne NN

更新日期：1982-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The attentional mechanisms in the brain responsible for fast pop-out search and slower difficult search have been shown to interact. Even if pop-out search is interrupted, by the addition of extra distractors to an initially simple search display, the partial computations calculated by the mechanisms responsible for p...

journal_title：Vision research

authors： Olds ES,Punambolam RJ

更新日期：2002-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Prolonged inspection of moving stimuli causes stationary stimuli to appear moving in the opposite direction to the adapting stimulus (the Waterfall effect). It has been claimed that distracting the viewer's attention from the adapting stimulus by a secondary task reduces the strength of adaptation. However, the method...

journal_title：Vision research

authors： Morgan MJ

更新日期：2012-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Unit responses susceptible to light stimulation of a small area on the frog's head were recorded in the deep encephalon of blinded specimens of Rana esculenta. The responses consisted of a spike discharge upon illumination. Using a threshold criterion the dark adaptation curves showed two parts, separated by a kink, t...

journal_title：Vision research

authors： Cadusseau J,Galand G

更新日期：1982-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Distant visual acuity was determined for several viewing angles in two restrained White Carneaux pigeons. The behavioral technique was a classical conditioning procedure that paired presentation of sinusoidal gratings with shock. A conditioned heart rate acceleration during the grating presentation indicated resolutio...

journal_title：Vision research

authors： Uhlrich DJ,Blough PM,Blough DS

更新日期：1982-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of dot speed and dot density on the development of global motion perception by comparing the performance of adults and children (5-6years old) on a direction-discrimination task. Motion coherence thresholds were measured at two dot speeds (1 and 4deg/s) and three...

journal_title：Vision research

authors： Narasimhan S,Giaschi D

更新日期：2012-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The association between perceived visual direction and retinal location has been considered to be specified at birth and unmodifiable. We found that small changes occurred in the visual direction associated with a peripheral retinal location when the amplitudes of saccadic eye movements to a target imaged at that loca...

journal_title：Vision research

authors： Moidell BG,Bedell HE

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Before and after exposure to clockwise optical tilt, subjects' compensatory eye movements were recorded, as the head was oscillated around a vertical axis by the experimenter. An analysis of the horizontal and vertical components of eye movements showed a change in eye movement path in the clockwise direction. This co...

journal_title：Vision research

authors： Callan JW,Ebenholtz SM

更新日期：1982-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Wilson and Humanski (1993) have recently reported evidence that adapting to low temporal frequency sinewave gratings yields little threshold elevation for briefly presented test stimuli. We postulated that brief stimuli may be detected by a transient channel which would be minimally affected by a low temporal frequenc...

journal_title：Vision research

authors： Hammett ST,Snowden RJ

更新日期：1995-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The perceived color of an object depends on the chromaticity of its immediate background. But color appearance is also influenced by remote chromaticities. To quantify these influences, the effects of remote color fields on the appearance of a fixated 2 degrees test field were measured using a forced-choice method. Ch...

journal_title：Vision research

authors： Wachtler T,Albright TD,Sejnowski TJ

更新日期：2001-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:How does the visual system generate percepts of moving forms? How does this happen when the forms are emergent percepts, such as illusory contours or segregated textures, and the motion percept is apparent motion between the emergent forms? We develop a neural model of form-motion interactions to explain and simulate ...

journal_title：Vision research

authors： Francis G,Grossberg S

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Visual performance is greatly impaired when tested with heterochromatic isoluminant stimuli. It is thus concluded that the chromatic system contribution to many visual tasks is limited. We suggest that unless color and luminance are shown to be processed independently, such experiments do not demonstrate shortcomings ...

journal_title：Vision research

authors： Gur M,Akri V

更新日期：1992-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Induced motion, the apparent motion of an object when a nearby object moves, has been shown to occur in a variety of different conditions, including motion in depth. Here we explore whether similar patterns of induced motion result from induction in a lateral direction (frontoparallel motion) or induction in depth. We...

journal_title：Vision research

authors： Harris JM,German KJ

更新日期：2008-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Visual adaptation is a critical and ubiquitous mechanism that occurs for any stimulus feature and involves a continuous adjustment of the neuronal contrast gain. These adjustments prevent our visual system from dropping in sensitivity for the prevailing ranges of stimulus features that are processed at a given time. I...

journal_title：Vision research

authors： Pavan A,Marotti RB,Campana G

更新日期：2012-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previously, we developed a stratified process for slant perception. First, optical transformations in structure-from-motion (SFM) and stereo were used to derive 3D relief structure (where depth scaling remains arbitrary). Second, with sufficient continuous perspective change (≥45°), a bootstrap process derived 3D simi...

journal_title：Vision research

authors： Wang XM,Lind M,Bingham GP

更新日期：2020-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A widespread view is that most texture segregation can be accounted for by differences in the spatial frequency content of texture regions. Evidence from both psychophysical and physiological studies indicate, however, that beyond these early filtering stages, there are stages of 3-D boundary segmentation and surface ...

journal_title：Vision research

authors： Grossberg S,Pessoa L

更新日期：1998-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Different electrodes and stimulus protocols commonly used for electroretinography in rodent eyes were compared for convenience of use, degree of damage to corneal epithelium, and for magnitude of amplitude, reproducibility, left versus right eye accuracy, and reliability of recorded parameters of the flash electroreti...

journal_title：Vision research

authors： Bayer AU,Cook P,Brodie SE,Maag KP,Mittag T

更新日期：2001-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous studies have found large misperceptions when subjects are reporting the perceived angle between two directions of motion moving transparently at an acute angle, the so called motion repulsion. While these errors have been assumed to be caused by interactions between the two directions present, we reassessed t...

journal_title：Vision research

authors： Rauber HJ,Treue S

更新日期：1999-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The familiarity effect (FE) refers to the phenomenon that it is easier to find an unfamiliar element on a background of familiar elements than vice versa. In this study, we examined the FE in texture segmentation while recording event-related brain potentials with the aim to find out which processing stages were influ...

journal_title：Vision research

authors： Becker L,Smith DT,Schenk T

更新日期：2017-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sensitivity to the sudden displacement (phase shift) of a single monocularly presented sinusoidal grating is increased when a static grating of similar spatial frequency is presented to the same eye. If the static grating is presented to the other eye instead sensitivity is, at best, halved. This demonstration implies...

journal_title：Vision research

authors： Badcock DR,Derrington AM

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three experiments were performed to examine positional acuity and the role of spatial sampling in central, peripheral and amblyopic vision. In the first experiment, 3-line bisection acuity was compared to grating acuity. In normal foveal vision bisection acuity represents a hyperacuity. In anisometropic amblyopes, bis...

journal_title：Vision research

authors： Levi DM,Klein SA,Yap YL

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Humans with amblyopia have a well-documented loss of sensitivity for first-order, or luminance defined, visual information. Recent studies show that they also display a specific loss of sensitivity for second-order, or contrast defined, visual information; a type of image structure encoded by neurons found predominant...

journal_title：Vision research

authors： Wong EH,Levi DM,McGraw PV

更新日期：2005-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Visual working memory is a system used to hold information actively in mind for a limited time. The number of items and the precision with which we can store information has limits that define its capacity. How much control do we have over the precision with which we store information when faced with these severe capa...

journal_title：Vision research

authors： Klyszejko Z,Rahmati M,Curtis CE

更新日期：2014-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vernier thresholds were measured behaviourally in five cats using offsets in gratings of two spatial frequencies and in single lines. Thresholds ranged from 2.2 to 6.7', and no threshold differences were found across stimuli. These results are discussed in relationships with published spatial resolution data and are r...

journal_title：Vision research

authors： Belleville S,Wilkinson F

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Normal subjects were first light adapted to a standard photopic background and a control photopic ERG was obtained. The subjects were then light adapted to a brighter background for 5 min at the end of which the luminance was returned to the control background and ERGs were taken at regular intervals. Most of the ERG/...

journal_title：Vision research

authors： Rousseau S,Lachapelle P

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bubbles is a classification image technique that randomly samples visual information from input stimuli to derive the diagnostic features that observers use in visual categorization tasks. To reach statistical significance, Bubbles performs an exhaustive and repetitive search in the stimulus space. To reduce the searc...

journal_title：Vision research

authors： Wang HF,Friel N,Gosselin F,Schyns PG

更新日期：2011-06-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Using displacing prisms to dissociate the influence of optic flow and egocentric direction, previous research (Current Biology 8 (1998) 1191) showed that people primarily use egocentric direction to control their locomotion on foot, rather than optic flow. When wearing displacing prisms, participants followed the curv...

journal_title：Vision research

authors： Harris JM,Bonas W

更新日期：2002-06-01 00:00:00