Visual motion detection sensitivity is enhanced by orthogonal induced motion.

abstract：:To investigate effects of visual experience versus preprogrammed mechanisms on visual development, we used multiple regression analysis to determine the extent to which a variety of variables (that differ in the extent to which they are tied to visual experience) predict luminance and chromatic (red/green) contrast se...

journal_title：Journal of vision

authors： Dobkins KR,Bosworth RG,McCleery JP

更新日期：2009-09-30 00:00:00

abstract：:In visual crowding, identification of a peripheral object is impaired by nearby objects. Recent studies have demonstrated that crowding is not limited only to interaction between low-level features or parts, as presumed by most models of crowding, but can also occur between high-level, configural representations of ob...

journal_title：Journal of vision

authors： Pirkner Y,Kimchi R

更新日期：2017-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During the last decade one of the most contentious and heavily studied topics in the attention literature has been the role that working memory representations play in controlling perceptual selection. The hypothesis has been advanced that to have attention select a certain perceptual input from the environment, we on...

journal_title：Journal of vision

authors： Woodman GF,Carlisle NB,Reinhart RM

更新日期：2013-02-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Contrast discrimination functions for simple gratings famously look like a dipper. Discrimination thresholds are lower than detection thresholds for moderate pedestal contrasts, and the rate of growth of thresholds as the pedestal contrast gets larger typically lies between the values implied by two popular treatments...

journal_title：Journal of vision

authors： Sanborn AN,Dayan P

更新日期：2011-12-08 00:00:00

abstract：:The visually guided interception of a moving target is a fundamental visuomotor task that humans can do with ease. But how humans carry out this task is still unclear despite numerous empirical investigations. Measurements of angular variables during human interception have suggested three possible strategies: the pur...

journal_title：Journal of vision

authors： Zhao H,Straub D,Rothkopf CA

更新日期：2019-12-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Blur is an important attribute of human spatial vision, and sensitivity to blur has been the subject of considerable experimental research and theoretical modeling. Often, these models have invoked specialized concepts or mechanisms, such as intrinsic blur, multiple spatial frequency channels, or blur estimation units...

journal_title：Journal of vision

authors： Watson AB,Ahumada AJ

更新日期：2011-09-19 00:00:00

abstract：:In a wide variety of neural systems, neurons tuned to a primary dimension of interest often have responses that are modulated in a multiplicative manner by other features such as stimulus intensity or contrast. In this methodological study, we present a demonstration that it is possible to use psychophysical experimen...

journal_title：Journal of vision

authors： DiMattina C

更新日期：2016-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The experience of our visual surroundings appears continuous, contradicting the erratic nature of visual processing due to saccades. A possible way the visual system can construct a continuous experience is by integrating presaccadic and postsaccadic visual input. However, saccades rarely land exactly at the intended ...

journal_title：Journal of vision

authors： Schut MJ,Van der Stoep N,Fabius JH,Van der Stigchel S

更新日期：2018-07-02 00:00:00

abstract：:In human (D. H. Baker, T. S. Meese, & R. J. Summers, 2007b) and in cat (B. Li, M. R. Peterson, J. K. Thompson, T. Duong, & R. D. Freeman, 2005; F. Sengpiel & V. Vorobyov, 2005) there are at least two routes to cross-orientation suppression (XOS): a broadband, non-adaptable, monocular (within-eye) pathway and a more na...

journal_title：Journal of vision

authors： Meese TS,Baker DH

更新日期：2009-05-04 00:00:00

abstract：:The ability to pursue moving objects with the eyes is vital to humans. However, it remains unclear how the brain differentiates visual object motion, smooth pursuit eye movements (SPEM), and eye movement-induced relative motion on the retina and where visual-to-oculomotor transformation takes place. To characterize fu...

journal_title：Journal of vision

authors： Ohlendorf S,Sprenger A,Speck O,Glauche V,Haller S,Kimmig H

更新日期：2010-12-20 00:00:00

abstract：:This study investigates the impact of language on color perception. By categorical facilitation, we refer to an aspect of categorical perception, in which the linguistic distinction between categories affects color discrimination beyond the low-level, sensory sensitivity to color differences. According to this idea, d...

journal_title：Journal of vision

authors： Witzel C,Gegenfurtner KR

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In three-dimensional (3-D) cluttered scenes such as foliage, deeper surfaces often are more shadowed and hence darker, and so depth and luminance often have negative covariance. We examined whether the sign of depth-luminance covariance plays a role in depth perception in 3-D clutter. We compared scenes rendered with ...

journal_title：Journal of vision

authors： Scaccia M,Langer MS

更新日期：2018-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Covert spatial attention increases the perceived contrast of stimuli at attended locations, presumably via enhancement of visual neural responses. However, the relation between perceived contrast and the underlying neural responses has not been characterized. In this study, we systematically varied stimulus contrast, ...

journal_title：Journal of vision

authors： Cutrone EK,Heeger DJ,Carrasco M

更新日期：2014-12-30 00:00:00

abstract：:When the visual system analyzes distributed patterns of sensory inputs, what features of those distributions does it use? It has been previously demonstrated that higher-order statistical moments of luminance distributions influence perception of static surfaces and textures. Here, we tested whether the brain also rep...

journal_title：Journal of vision

authors： Waskom ML,Asfour J,Kiani R

更新日期：2018-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The role of target typicality in a categorical visual search task was investigated by cueing observers with a target name, followed by a five-item target present/absent search array in which the target images were rated in a pretest to be high, medium, or low in typicality with respect to the basic-level target cue. C...

journal_title：Journal of vision

authors： Maxfield JT,Stalder WD,Zelinsky GJ

更新日期：2014-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We present a three-mode expressive-feature model for recognizing gender (female, male) from point-light displays of walking people. Prototype female and male walkers are initially decomposed into a subspace of their three-mode components (posture, time, and gender). We then apply a weight factor to each point-light tr...

journal_title：Journal of vision

authors： Davis JW,Gao H

更新日期：2004-05-06 00:00:00

abstract：:We present a numerical analysis of rendered pairs of rooms, in which the spectral power distribution of the illuminant in one room matched the surface reflectance function in the other room, and vice versa. We ask whether distinction between the rooms is possible and on what cues this discrimination is based. Using ac...

journal_title：Journal of vision

authors： Ruppertsberg AI,Bloj M

更新日期：2007-10-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Humans can estimate and encode numerosity over a large range, from very few items to several hundreds. Two distinct mechanisms have been proposed: subitizing, for numbers up to four and estimation for larger numerosities. We have recently extended this idea by suggesting that for very densely packed arrays, when items...

journal_title：Journal of vision

authors： Pomè A,Anobile G,Cicchini GM,Burr DC

更新日期：2019-06-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Frequent target stimuli are detected more rapidly than infrequent ones. Here, we examined whether the frequency effect reflected durable attentional biases toward frequent target features, and whether the effect was confined to featural properties that defined the target. Participants searched for two specific target ...

journal_title：Journal of vision

authors： Sha LZ,Remington RW,Jiang YV

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In addition to its expected fast, additive L- and M-cone inputs (L + M), the luminance pathway has slow, spectrally opponent inputs. We have previously shown that on long-wavelength fields, the dominant slow signals change from L-M at moderate intensity levels to M-L signals at high. Here, we focus on the transition b...

journal_title：Journal of vision

authors： Stockman A,Plummer DJ

更新日期：2005-10-21 00:00:00

abstract：:During observation of an ambiguous Necker cube, our percept changes spontaneously although the external stimulus does not. An EEG paradigm allowing time-resolved EEG measurement during endogenous perceptual reversals recently revealed a chain of ERP correlates beginning with an early occipital positivity at around 130...

journal_title：Journal of vision

authors： Kornmeier J,Pfäffle M,Bach M

更新日期：2011-08-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Psychophysical experiments have demonstrated that it is possible to simultaneously perceive binocular depth and rivalry in plaids (A. Buckthought & H. R. Wilson, 2007). Here, we used fMRI at 3T to image activity in the visual cortex while human subjects perceived depth and rivalry from plaids. Six subjects performed e...

journal_title：Journal of vision

authors： Buckthought A,Mendola JD

更新日期：2011-05-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Signal detection theory (SDT) asserts that sensory analysis is limited only by noise, and not by the number of stimuli analysed. To test this claim, we measured the accuracy of visual search for a single tilted element (the target) among 7 horizontal elements (distractors) using several different exposure durations, e...

journal_title：Journal of vision

authors： Solomon JA,Morgan MJ

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To estimate object speed with respect to the self, retinal signals must be summed with extraretinal signals that encode the speed of eye and head movement. Prior work has shown that differences in perceptual estimates of object speed based on retinal and oculomotor signals lead to biased percepts such as the Aubert-Fl...

journal_title：Journal of vision

authors： Garzorz IT,Freeman TCA,Ernst MO,MacNeilage PR

更新日期：2018-12-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Research in the Visual Development Unit on "dorsal stream vulnerability' (DSV) arose from research in two somewhat different areas. In the first, using cortical milestones for local and global processing from our neurobiological model, we identified cerebral visual impairment in infants in the first year of life. In t...

journal_title：Journal of vision

authors： Atkinson J

更新日期：2017-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two small objects (flies) followed identical circular orbits. However, a large background that circled around behind them in different phases made one orbit look twice as large as the other (size illusion) or made the circles look like very thin horizontal or vertical ellipses with aspect ratios of 7.5:1 or more (shap...

journal_title：Journal of vision

authors： Anstis S,Casco C

更新日期：2006-09-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Measurements of area summation for luminance-modulated stimuli are typically confounded by variations in sensitivity across the retina. Recently we conducted a detailed analysis of sensitivity across the visual field (Baldwin, Meese, & Baker, 2012) and found it to be well described by a bilinear "witch's hat" function...

journal_title：Journal of vision

authors： Baldwin AS,Meese TS

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Intuitively, extrapolating object trajectories should make visual tracking more accurate. This has proven to be true in many contexts that involve tracking a single item. But surprisingly, when tracking multiple identical items in what is known as "multiple object tracking," observers often appear to ignore direction ...

journal_title：Journal of vision

authors： Zhong SH,Ma Z,Wilson C,Liu Y,Flombaum JI

更新日期：2014-10-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Human observers made local orientation judgments of smoothly shaded surfaces illuminated from different directions by large area lights, both with and without visible smooth occlusion contours. Test-retest correlations between the first and second halves of the experiment revealed that observers' judgments were highly...

journal_title：Journal of vision

authors： Egan EJ,Todd JT

更新日期：2015-02-24 00:00:00

abstract：:An uninformative exogenous cue speeds target detection if cue and target appear in the same location separated by a brief temporal interval. This finding is usually ascribed to the orienting of spatial attention to the cued location. Here we examine the role of perceptual merging of the two trial events in speeded tar...

journal_title：Journal of vision

authors： Krüger HM,MacInnes WJ,Hunt AR

更新日期：2014-06-24 00:00:00