Investigating the familiarity effect in texture segmentation by means of event-related brain potentials.

abstract：:We investigated the influence of the Stiles-Crawford effect (SCE) of the first kind on the contrast sensitivity function using the apodisation model of the SCE. The SCE was measured for the right eyes of two subjects using an increment threshold technique involving a two-channel Maxwellian-viewing system. Filters made...

journal_title：Vision research

authors： Atchison DA,Scott DH

更新日期：2002-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The presence of retinopetal fibers in mammals has been debated many times in the past two decades. Do rabbits have a retinopetal system? This question is addressed with the present investigations. In anesthetized and paralysed rabbits the b-wave and the oscillatory potentials (OP) are recorded at the cornea. The optic...

journal_title：Vision research

authors： Molotchnikoff S,Lachapelle P,Casanova C

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It has been suggested that schizophrenia is associated with a magnocellular deficit. This would predict a loss of contrast sensitivity at low spatial and/or at high temporal frequencies. We here review research that tested contrast sensitivity in individuals with schizophrenia. We find that the results of this researc...

journal_title：Vision research

authors： Skottun BC,Skoyles JR

更新日期：2007-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Motion aftereffects (MAE) to drifting gratings were measured with a cancellation technique. For a constant adapting grating, MAE cancellation velocity increased linearly with visual field eccentricity. The slope of the function was dependent upon adapting temporal frequency. MAE velocity was independent of spatial fre...

journal_title：Vision research

authors： Wright MJ,Johnston A

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Studies of high-level models of visual object categorization have left unresolved issues of neurobiological relevance, including how features are extracted from the image and the role played by memory capacity in categorization performance. We compared the ability of a comprehensive set of models to match the categori...

journal_title：Vision research

authors： Peters RJ,Gabbiani F,Koch C

更新日期：2003-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous psychophysical studies have revealed that shape similarity can affect apparent motion correspondence. Such results however, do not specify the level of representation, at which shape similarity is defined. We sought to understand this question by using a 2 x 2 competitive apparent motion paradigm. We manipula...

journal_title：Vision research

authors： He ZJ,Nakayama K

更新日期：1994-08-01 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：:Dark-adapted rods suppress cone-mediated flicker detection. This study evaluates the effect that rod activity has on cone temporal processing by investigating whether rod mediated suppression changes the cone pathway impulse response function, regardless of the form of the temporal signal. Stimuli were generated with ...

journal_title：Vision research

authors： Zele AJ,Cao D,Pokorny J

更新日期：2008-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Physiological studies of non-human primates have suggested that the direction of gaze can modulate the gain of neuronal responses to visual stimuli in many cortical areas including V1. The neural gaze modulation is suggested to subserve the conversion from gaze-independent (eye-centered) to dependent (e.g., head-cente...

journal_title：Vision research

authors： Nishida S,Motoyoshi I,Andersen RA,Shimojo S

更新日期：2003-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe a technique, involving the projection of low power laser beams through excised lenses in solution, that makes it possible to measure photographically lens optical aberrations. Preliminary work indicates that the laser method can be used in combination with lens culture experiments as a means of monitoring ...

journal_title：Vision research

authors： Sivak JG,Gershon D,Dovrat A,Weerheim J

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three experiments investigated whether and to what extent increases in age affect the functionality of stereopsis. The observers' ages ranged from 18 to 83 years. The overall goal was to challenge the older stereoscopic visual system by utilizing high magnitudes of binocular disparity, ambiguous binocular disparity [c...

journal_title：Vision research

authors： Norman JF,Norman HF,Craft AE,Walton CL,Bartholomew AN,Burton CL,Wiesemann EY,Crabtree CE

更新日期：2008-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We show that the initial ocular following responses elicited by motion of a large pattern are modestly attenuated when that pattern is shifted out of the plane of fixation by altering its binocular disparity. If the motion is applied to only restricted regions of the pattern, however, then altering the disparity of th...

journal_title：Vision research

authors： Masson GS,Busettini C,Yang DS,Miles FA

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Retinal motion can modulate visual sensitivity. For instance, low contrast drifting waveforms (targets) can be easier to detect when abutting the leading edges of movement in adjacent high contrast waveforms (inducers), rather than the trailing edges. This target-inducer interaction is contingent on the adjacent wavef...

journal_title：Vision research

authors： Arnold DH,Marinovic W,Whitney D

更新日期：2014-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this study was to investigate the roles of the putative "spatial filter" and "local sign" mechanisms in determining line vernier thresholds for a range of target separations, using stimulus contrast or visibility as a tool. In Expt 1, the effects of varying target contrast and exposure duration on verni...

journal_title：Vision research

authors： Waugh SJ,Levi DM

更新日期：1993-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In two experiments we measured object recognition performance as a function of delay. In Experiment 1 we presented half of an image of an object, and then the other half after a variable delay. Objects were subdivided into top versus bottom halves, left versus right halves, or vertical strips. In Experiment 2 we separ...

journal_title：Vision research

authors： Servos P,Olds ES,Planetta PJ,Keith Humphrey G

更新日期：2005-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An outline drawing often serves as an excellent depiction of a visual scene. Somehow, our visual system can form two- and three-dimensional percepts solely from one-dimensional contour information. In mathematics, contour closure plays a key role in bridging this dimensional gap, however in perception the link between...

journal_title：Vision research

authors： Elder J,Zucker S

更新日期：1993-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Increment thresholds were measured over a range of adapting illuminances using a modified automated static perimeter. The data were fitted to a threshold versus intensity model (logT - logT(0) + log((A + A(0))/A(0))n) and the values logT(0) and logA(0) estimated. The effect of eccentricity and age on logT(0) and logA(...

journal_title：Vision research

authors： Herse P

更新日期：2005-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human motion perception is assumed to be functionally described by an array of bi-local detectors feeding later, higher order computational stages. Using this model as a guide, improvement of spatio-temporal displacement sensitivity by temporal integration (summation) was measured in human central vision using random ...

journal_title：Vision research

authors： Fredericksen RE,Verstraten FA,Van de Grind WA

更新日期：1994-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:When two sinusoidal gratings of the same orientation and similar spatial frequency are summed, the resulting pattern has a periodic spatial variation or beat in contrast. Although the pattern contains no luminance modulation component at the beat frequency, it behaves in some respects as if it did: human observers for...

journal_title：Vision research

authors： Badcock DR,Derrington AM

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Patients with retinitis pigmentosa (RP) show delayed inner retinal responses as measured by the cone ERG response to a 30 Hz stimulus. To determine the extent to which this delay results from abnormalities of cone phototransduction, cone ERGs to single flashes were obtained from 21 patients with RP and a model of cone...

journal_title：Vision research

authors： Hood DC,Birch DG

更新日期：1996-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The induced size effect is an apparent rotation about a vertical axis that results from binocularly viewing a target in which one half-image is vertically magnified. A previous paper (Arditi et al., 1981, Vision Res. 21, 755-764) described a theory of this effect in terms of horizontal disparities that exist between v...

journal_title：Vision research

authors： Arditi A

更新日期：1982-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A series of multiple regression analyses was conducted on a corpus of eye movement data to examine whether the influence of properties of words n-1 and n+1 on the time spent fixating word n changes as a function of whether word n is associated with a punctuation mark (i.e., whether or not a punctuation mark separates ...

journal_title：Vision research

authors： Pynte J,Kennedy A

更新日期：2007-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Quantitative light microscopic techniques have been applied to photoreceptors, ganglion cells and dopaminergic amacrine cells in the retina of the North American opossum Didelphis virginiana. This marsupial has a retina with a central areal specialization where ganglion cells reach a maximum density of 2900/mm2 and co...

journal_title：Vision research

authors： Kolb H,Wang HH

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The changes with age in the accommodation responses to dynamic stimuli can reveal useful information on the factors underlying presbyopia development. Analysis of the monocular accommodation responses of 19 normal observers (ages 18-49 years) to stimuli whose vergence varied sinusoidally with time at different tempora...

journal_title：Vision research

authors： Heron G,Charman WN

更新日期：2004-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is well established that activity of striate neurons may be either facilitated or suppressed by visual stimuli presented outside of their classical receptive field (CRF) limits. Whilst two general mechanisms have been identified as candidates for these contextual effects; those based on extra-striate feedback and l...

journal_title：Vision research

authors： Cass JR,Spehar B

更新日期：2005-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The gaze of another modulates and shifts an observer's spatial attention toward this gaze direction. This phenomenon is termed joint attention. Although previous studies found joint attention was induced during a spatial working memory task, it remains an open question whether spatial working memory interferes with jo...

journal_title：Vision research

authors： Yokoyama T,Kato R,Inoue K,Takeda Y

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A global shape judgement task was used to investigate the combination of stereopsis and kinetic depth. With both cues present, there were no distortions of shape perception, even under conditions where either cue alone did show such distortions. We suggest that the addition of motion information overcomes the stereo d...

journal_title：Vision research

authors： Johnston EB,Cumming BG,Landy MS

更新日期：1994-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Oculomotor capture can occur automatically in a bottom-up way through the sudden appearance of a new object or in a top-down fashion when a stimulus in the array matches the contents of working memory. However, it is not clear whether or not working memory processing can influence the early stages of oculomotor captur...

journal_title：Vision research

authors： Mannan SK,Kennard C,Potter D,Pan Y,Soto D

更新日期：2010-07-21 00:00:00

abstract：:With the identification and structural characterization of several visual pigments has come a new era of investigation. The above comparisons of amino acids sequences predict specific functional domains that may be tested to tell us how visual pigments function to absorb light and transform this "signal" to trigger a ...

journal_title：Vision research

authors： Applebury ML,Hargrave PA

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We examine how various sources of information contribute to the percept of motion in depth. Subjects were presented with targets moving in depth, and were asked to judge their velocities and final positions. On each presentation, the target's position relative to the two eyes (target vergence), the size of the target'...

journal_title：Vision research

authors： Brenner E,Van Den Berg AV,Van Damme WJ

更新日期：1996-03-01 00:00:00