Attentive pointing in natural scenes correlates with other measures of attention.

abstract：:Three experiments investigated category search in pigeons, using an artificial category created by morphing of human faces. Four pigeons were trained to search for category members among nonmembers, with each target item consisting of an item-specific component and a common component diagnostic of the category. Experi...

journal_title：Vision research

authors： Ohkita M,Jitsumori M

更新日期：2012-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A subject with an unually large cortical scotoma, leaving a 9 degrees hemifield of vision in each eye, showed improvement with practice in pointing to an oscillating target positioned within the scotoma. The practice effect transferred to low-contrast targets and to stationary ones, though oscillating targets were alw...

journal_title：Vision research

authors： Bridgeman B,Staggs D

更新日期：1982-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We document the performance of 26 human observers practicing a motion discrimination task in foveal vision. Two blocks of 1960 apparent motion stimuli each were presented in succession. Stimuli in the two blocks were tailored to activate either the ON-pathway (ON-stimulus) or the OFF-pathway (OFF-stimulus). Initial pe...

journal_title：Vision research

authors： Wehrhahn C,Rapf D

更新日期：2001-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the retina of Siberian sturgeon, three spectral classes of photoreceptors were identified by microspectrophotometry. These were rods, oil drop-containing and oil drop-free cones possessing P549, and oil drop-containing cones possessing P613 and P465. With intracellular recordings, rod-driven, cone-driven, and mixed...

journal_title：Vision research

authors： Govardovskii VI,Byzov AL,Zueva LV,Polisczuk NA,Baburina EA

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Spatial power spectra from natural images fall approximately as the square of spatial frequency, a property also called scale invariance (scaling). Various theories for visual receptive fields consider scale invariance key. Two hypotheses have been advanced in the literature for why natural images obey scale invarianc...

journal_title：Vision research

authors： Balboa RM,Tyler CW,Grzywacz NM

更新日期：2001-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In stroboscopic conditions--such as motion pictures--rotating objects may appear to rotate in the reverse direction due to under-sampling (aliasing). A seemingly similar phenomenon occurs in constant sunlight, which has been taken as evidence that the visual system processes discrete "snapshots" of the outside world. ...

journal_title：Vision research

authors： Kline K,Holcombe AO,Eagleman DM

更新日期：2004-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We use a difficult shape identification task to analyze how humans extract 3D surface structure from dynamic 2D stimuli--the kinetic depth effect (KDE). Stimuli composed of luminous tokens moving on a less luminous background yield accurate 3D shape identification regardless of the particular token used (either dots, ...

journal_title：Vision research

authors： Landy MS,Dosher BA,Sperling G,Perkins ME

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A modified version of the 'path finder' display consisting of many small oriented Gabor patches was used to study the joint contributions of spatial and temporal structures to shape perception. A two-interval forced-choice procedure measured detectability of curved 'paths' defined by orientation ('good continuation') ...

journal_title：Vision research

authors： Lee SH,Blake R

更新日期：2001-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In three experiments, the effects of irrelevant visual information on the time to initiate and to complete a simple movement of the hand in response to a visual signal were studied in patients with a diagnosis of Parkinson's disease, and in age-matched normal controls. Subjects gazed at the centre of a TV monitor and ...

journal_title：Vision research

authors： McDowell SA,Harris J

更新日期：1997-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In masked priming, a briefly presented prime can facilitate or inhibit responses to a subsequent target. In most instances, targets with an associated response that is congruent with the prime direction speed up reaction times to the target (a positive compatibility effect; PCE). However, under certain circumstances, ...

journal_title：Vision research

authors： Misirlisoy E,Hermens F,Stavrou M,Pennells J,Walker R

更新日期：2014-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study compared frequency-of-seeing curves for a line displacement test in glaucoma patients and normals. Probit analysis of the frequency-of-seeing curves provided the motion thresholds and the slopes of the frequency-of-seeing curves, represented by the interquartile range. The thresholds and interquartile range...

journal_title：Vision research

authors： Westcott MC,Fitzke FW,Crabb DP,Hitchings RA

更新日期：1999-02-01 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：: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：:The visual evoked potential (VEP) in the mouse is characterized and compared to responses obtained with the electroretinogram (ERG). The results indicate that: 1, the VEP originates in the visual cortex; 2, the rod and cone pathways contribute separately to the VEP; 3, temporal tuning functions for rod and cone ERGs a...

journal_title：Vision research

authors： Ridder WH 3rd,Nusinowitz S

更新日期：2006-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The functional role of three putative neurotransmitter systems in the visual cortex is compared; the GABAergic inhibitory interneurons, the interneurones containing somatostatin and the cholinergic input originating from the nucleus basalis of Meynert (nbM). Evidence is presented to support the role of GABAergic proce...

journal_title：Vision research

authors： Sillito AM,Salt TE,Kemp JA

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:High order aberrations have been suggested to play a role in determining the direction of accommodation. We have explored the effect of retinal blur induced by high order aberrations on dynamic accommodation by measuring the accommodative response to sinusoidal variations in accommodative demand (1-3D). The targets we...

journal_title：Vision research

authors： Gambra E,Wang Y,Yuan J,Kruger PB,Marcos S

更新日期：2010-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Effects of glutamate and its agonists on horizontal cells appeared diversely when studied in turtle eyecup preparations. Consistent results were obtained when the isolated retina preparations were used. Not only kainate and quisqualate but also N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) caused a sustained depolarization and light-ev...

journal_title：Vision research

authors： Miyachi E,Murakami M

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The main purpose of these experiments was to examine in detail how successfully the uncertainty reduction explanation accounts for the effects of spatial cues in a temporal forced-choice contrast discrimination task in which any one of four well-separated Gabor patches is incremented. In preliminary experiments, it wa...

journal_title：Vision research

authors： Nachmias J

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is not known how glutamate released synaptically in the outer plexiform layer of the retina is inactivated. Since there is no extracellular enzymatic degradation, glutamate released from photoreceptors is taken up intracellularly by at least one of the three transporters known, and metabolized by a glutamate degrad...

journal_title：Vision research

authors： Derouiche A

更新日期：1996-12-01 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：:Seven models of human visual recognition from cognitive psychology, visual psychophysics and connectionism were compared. They were used to predict psychophysical classification data obtained via supervised learning with parametrised grey-level patterns (compound Gabor signals). Four sets of learning patterns, as well...

journal_title：Vision research

authors： Unzicker A,Jüttner M,Rentschler I

更新日期：1998-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Direction-discrimination performance was measured for two-frame random-dot kinematograms in which one or both frames were spatial frequency filtered with a one octave band-pass filter and the centre frequency of this filter was varied in the range 0.75-9 c/deg independently for each frame. When both frames were filter...

journal_title：Vision research

authors： Ledgeway T

更新日期：1996-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have recorded the activity of omnipause neurons (OPNs) in the raphe interpositus during so-called staircase saccades produced by prolonged activation of the superior colliculus (SC) by microstimulation. By showing that OPNs cyclically pause during the periodic movements produced by the steady activation function, w...

journal_title：Vision research

authors： Paul K,Gnadt JW

更新日期：2006-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this paper, an extended multifocal VEP/ERG paradigm, referred to as the unified multifocal electroretinography and visual evoked potential paradigm (UMEV), is presented. This paradigm allows a simultaneous recording of luminance responses, temporal interactions, spatial interactions and spatial-temporal interaction...

journal_title：Vision research

authors： Zhang X

更新日期：2003-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It has been shown that in the initial stages of motion processing, the ON and OFF pathways stay more or less separated. There is evidence that this distinction between motion signals from opposite contrast polarities remains at least partly intact in the integration stage of local motion information. At the same time,...

journal_title：Vision research

authors： van der Smagt MJ,Breij EC,van de Grind WA

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Static firing frequencies have been determined in extraocular motoneuronal discharge patterns for different eye positions within +/- 30 deg around the primary position. From these data iso-frequency curves were plotted stating all possible eye positions for a given firing rate. Such curves have been constructed for th...

journal_title：Vision research

authors： Hepp K,Henn V

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The responses of neurons in primary visual cortex (V1) to stimulation of their receptive field (RF) are modulated by stimuli in the RF surround. This modulation is suppressive when the stimuli in the RF and surround are of similar orientation, but less suppressive or facilitatory when they are cross-oriented. Similarl...

journal_title：Vision research

authors： Nurminen L,Angelucci A

更新日期：2014-11-01 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：: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：:According to a top-down explanation of subliminal oculomotor capture, only subliminal distractors with a contrast polarity matching that of the searched-for targets should capture attention. For instance, when looking for white targets only subliminal white but not black distractors should capture attention. In contra...

journal_title：Vision research

authors： Weichselbaum H,Fuchs I,Ansorge U

更新日期：2014-07-01 00:00:00