Pigeons show efficient visual search by category: effects of typicality and practice.

abstract：:Treatment of age-macular degeneration requires monthly intravitreal injections, which are costly and have serious risks. The objective of this study was to develop a novel intraocular implant for drug delivery. The capsule drug ring is a reservoir inserted in the lens capsule during cataract surgery, refillable and ca...

journal_title：Vision research

authors： Molokhia SA,Sant H,Simonis J,Bishop CJ,Burr RM,Gale BK,Ambati BK

更新日期：2010-03-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Is acetylcholinesterase (AChE) a reliable marker for cholinergic activity in the cat and rat retinas? To evaluate this question, radial sections, labeled for AChE, have been compared to sections labeled for choline acetyltransferase (ChAT). Within the inner plexiform layer (IPL) of each species, two lightly-stained AC...

journal_title：Vision research

authors： Criswell MH,Brandon C

更新日期：1993-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We measured the pupillary light reflex (PLR) in 5 pigmented, Long Evans rats (under urethan sedation) in three conditions: direct stimulation, consensual stimulation, and a control condition designed to measure the effects of stray light. The average constriction (maximal amplitude) produced by a ganzfeld stimulus del...

journal_title：Vision research

authors： Trejo LJ,Rand MN,Cicerone CM

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A geometrical method of calculating retinal magnification factor at the limits of the retinal field, adjacent to the ora terminalis, is described. The method is applied to the eyes of 11 mammalian and avian species, using new anatomical measurements and data from the literature. In the human and monkey eye, magnificat...

journal_title：Vision research

authors： Holden AL,Hayes BP,Fitzke FW

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:With strict fixation, a small uniform target of medium contrast, placed at 10 deg eccentricity, faded much faster when presented on a dynamic random noise background than on either a static random noise background or a uniform background of the same luminance. Time to first disappearance was between 10 and 16 sec when...

journal_title：Vision research

authors： Spillmann L,Kurtenbach A

更新日期：1992-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:One primary function of spatial attention is to exclude external noise [e.g., Psychol. Sci. 11(2) (2000) 139], especially in the region of the target stimulus [J. Vis. 2(4) (2000) 312]. What is not known is the spatial profile of external noise exclusion in the vicinity of the target and how this depends upon attentio...

journal_title：Vision research

authors： Dosher BA,Liu SH,Blair N,Lu ZL

更新日期：2004-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A rhodopsin P347L transgenic (Tg) rabbit, a model of retinitis pigmentosa, has been generated in our laboratory. The purpose of this study was to determine the properties of focal areas of the retina in this rabbit model during the course of retinal degeneration. To accomplish this, we recorded focal ERGs from wild-ty...

journal_title：Vision research

authors： Ueno S,Koyasu T,Kominami T,Sakai T,Kondo M,Yasuda S,Terasaki H

更新日期：2013-10-18 00:00:00

abstract：:A vertical grating appears tilted when surrounded by a tilted inducer grating: the tilt illusion. We investigated the inter-ocular transfer of the tilt illusion for gratings modulated along parallel or orthogonal vectors in a L-M and L+M+S cone contrast space. We found that the monocular component of the tilt illusion...

journal_title：Vision research

authors： Forte JD,Clifford CW

更新日期：2005-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The problem of perceptual organization was studied by Gestalt psychologists in terms of figure-ground segregation. In this paper we explore a new principle of figure-ground segregation: accentuation. We demonstrate the effectiveness of accentuation relative to other Gestalt principles, and also consider it autonomous ...

journal_title：Vision research

authors： Pinna B,Reeves A,Koenderink J,van Doorn A,Deiana K

更新日期：2018-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Models based on spatial-frequency channels and local features provide alternative explanations for suprathreshold pattern discrimination. We compared psychophysical discrimination data with the predictions of the Wilson and Gelb channel model and three local-feature models. The features were peak-valley local contrast...

journal_title：Vision research

authors： Akutsu H,Legge GE

更新日期：1995-10-01 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：:When the method of constant stimuli is used to measure heterochromatic brightness matches, the resulting matches can be strongly biased toward the center of the range of test luminances used. In the present paper, we investigate the source of this centering bias. The stimuli were 2 degrees red squares presented in a g...

journal_title：Vision research

authors： Pereverzeva M,Teller DY

更新日期：2005-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An observer's ability to discriminate the angular direction of a moving grating depends on the grating orientation. Observers can more accurately judge the angular direction of vertical or horizontal gratings than oblique gratings. We discovered that this oblique effect becomes very large at high spatial frequencies i...

journal_title：Vision research

authors： Coletta NJ,Segu P,Tiana CL

更新日期：1993-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Reading in peripheral vision is slow and requires large print, posing substantial difficulty for patients with central scotomata. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effect of print size on reading speed at different eccentricities in normal peripheral vision. We hypothesized that reading speeds should remai...

journal_title：Vision research

authors： Chung ST,Mansfield JS,Legge GE

更新日期：1998-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We measured thresholds for detecting the direction of curvature in slightly bent stimuli such as arcs and sinusoidal lines, and the direction of bend in chevrons and trapezoids in an initial experiment. Stimulus length varied over a wide range from 8.3 to 267 min arc. For sufficiently long stimuli, the angle between t...

journal_title：Vision research

authors： Kramer D,Fahle M

更新日期：1996-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Spatio-temporal boundary formation (SBF) refers to a perceptual process responsible for perception of moving, bounded surfaces from sequential changes in spatially separated local elements. Previous research has indicated that this process produces perception of global form, continuous boundaries and global motion fro...

journal_title：Vision research

authors： Shipley TF,Kellman PJ

更新日期：1997-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:When a vernier stimulus is presented for a short time and followed by a grating comprising five straight lines, the vernier remains invisible but may bequeath its offset to the grating (feature inheritance). For more than seven grating elements, the vernier is rendered visible as a shine-through element. However, shin...

journal_title：Vision research

authors： Herzog MH,Fahle M,Koch C

更新日期：2001-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Evidence obtained using the dynamic grouping method has shown that the grouping of an object's connected surfaces has properties characteristic of a nonlinear dynamical system. When a surface's luminance changes, one of its boundaries is perceived moving across the surface. The direction of this dynamic grouping (DG) ...

journal_title：Vision research

authors： Hock HS,Schöner G

更新日期：2016-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We study the "color weight" for a number of rather different paradigms. In well researched heterochromatic photometry methods we find that the "weights" determined by settings of naive observers are closely determined by the CIE luminance functional. This is very different for tasks that involve mid- and high-level as...

journal_title：Vision research

authors： Koenderink J,van Doorn A,Gegenfurtner K

更新日期：2018-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lateral interactions between spatial filters were explored with a lateral masking paradigm. Contrast sensitivity (two-alternative forced-choice) for a Gabor signal in the presence of two flanking high contrast Gabor signals (masks) was measured. When the target to mask distance was less than 2 target wavelengths the c...

journal_title：Vision research

authors： Polat U,Sagi D

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previously Gysen, De Graef, and Verfaillie [Vision Research 42 (2002) 379] showed that, with stimulus displays presenting one stationary and one translating object, sensitivity for intrasaccadic displacements was higher for translating than for stationary objects. In the present paper the importance of the relative en...

journal_title：Vision research

authors： Gysen V,Verfaillie K,De Graef P

更新日期：2002-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent work (Shimojo, Silverman & Nakayama, 1989; Vision Research, 29, 619-626) suggests that the visual system must discriminate between extrinsic boundaries (boundaries created by front occluding surfaces) and intrinsic boundaries (real object boundaries) in order to recognize objects and that this would importantly...

journal_title：Vision research

authors： Vallortigara G,Bressan P

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Perception of visual motion includes a first-order mechanism sensitive to luminance changes and a second-order motion mechanism sensitive to contrast changes. We studied neural substrates for these motion types in 142 subjects with visual cortex lesions, 68 normal controls and 28 brain lesion controls. On first-order ...

journal_title：Vision research

authors： Rizzo M,Nawrot M,Sparks J,Dawson J

更新日期：2008-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Color samples selected from the OSA Uniform Color Scales set were seen isolated in a dark field, illuminated by hidden projectors. These appeared as self-luminous aperture colors when thus isolated. We employed a categorical color-naming procedure to assess color appearance. Achromatic surrounds of 33 min width, if ad...

journal_title：Vision research

authors： Uchikawa H,Uchikawa K,Boynton RM

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Peripheral resolution acuity for achromatic gratings is known to be limited by the density of the underlying ganglion cell sampling array. After confirming isolation of the short-wavelength sensitive (SWS) system using chromatic adaptation methods, we wished to determine if resolution is limited by blue/yellow ganglio...

journal_title：Vision research

authors： Anderson RS,Zlatkova MB,Demirel S

更新日期：2002-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During reading, binocular visual input results in superior performance and is particularly important in the pre-processing of parafoveal text prior to direct fixation. It is not yet clear whether binocular vision in the parafovea is necessary for accurate saccadic targeting, or for efficient pre-processing of upcoming...

journal_title：Vision research

authors： Nikolova M,Jainta S,Blythe HI,Liversedge SP

更新日期：2018-04-01 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：:In order to evaluate the site of action of picrotoxin (antagonist of ionotropic GABA receptors) on the electroretinographic (ERG) b- and d-waves, in this study we compared its effects on the intensity-response function of the ERG waves in intact light adapted frog eyecup preparations with its effects in eyecups, where...

journal_title：Vision research

authors： Popova E

更新日期：2014-08-01 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：:We have studied the effects of depolarization in the living human eye by using a spatially resolved Mueller-matrix polarimeter [Opt. Lett. 24 (1999) 64]. Results show that the degree of polarization for the central part of double-pass images is about 0.85 and 0.70 for 2 mm and 5 mm of pupil, respectively. This paramet...

journal_title：Vision research

authors： Bueno JM

更新日期：2001-09-01 00:00:00