Contrast discrimination deficits in retinitis pigmentosa are greater for stimuli that favor the magnocellular pathway.

abstract：:In the present experiments three different motion discrimination tasks were studied using a random dot pattern as stimulus: velocity discrimination, direction discrimination and discrimination of opposite directions. The analysis of the motion of random dot patterns is based on motion sensitive mechanisms without the ...

journal_title：Vision research

authors： De Bruyn B,Orban GA

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Subjects indicated the tilt of dotted planes rotating in depth, in monocular viewing, under perspective projection. The responses depended on the FOV (field of view) and on the angle W between the tilt and frontal translation (orthogonal to the rotation axis). Response accuracy increased with the FOV, and decreased wi...

journal_title：Vision research

authors： Zhong H,Cornilleau-Pérès V,Cheong LF,Yeow GM,Droulez D

更新日期：2006-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We explore attentional effects on afterimages in the framework of the FACADE model of visual perception. We first show that the FACADE model can account for the experimental findings of Suzuki and Grabowecky [Suzuki, S., & Grabowecky, M. (2003). Attention during adaptation weakens negative afterimages. Journal of Expe...

journal_title：Vision research

authors： Wede J,Francis G

更新日期：2007-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In research on eye-movement control during reading, the importance of cognitive processes related to language comprehension relative to visuomotor aspects of saccade generation is the topic of an ongoing debate. Here we investigate various eye-movement measures during reading of randomly shuffled meaningless text as c...

journal_title：Vision research

authors： Schad DJ,Nuthmann A,Engbert R

更新日期：2010-11-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Increment-threshold spectral sensitivity functions were taken foveally and at four other retinal locations with different sized test stimuli. For the fovea and parafovea at 4 degrees, a 1 degree, 250 msec stimulus of variable wavelength, flashed on a 1000 td white background yielded spectral sensitivity curves with th...

journal_title：Vision research

authors： Kuyk TK

更新日期：1982-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The blowfly visual system is a well-suited model to investigate the functional consequences of adaptation. Similar to cortical motion-sensitive neurons, fly tangential cells are directional selective and adapt during prolonged stimulation. Here we demonstrate in a tangential cell large changes in directionality after ...

journal_title：Vision research

authors： Kalb J,Egelhaaf M,Kurtz R

更新日期：2008-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The integration of spatially distinct elements into coherent objects is a fundamental process of vision. Yet notwithstanding an extensive literature on perceptual grouping, we still lack a clear understanding of the representational consequences of grouping disparate visual locations. We investigated this question in ...

journal_title：Vision research

authors： Harrison SJ,Feldman J

更新日期：2009-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The study of motion perception through classical psychophysical methods has suggested that independent spatiotemporal filters acting over specific locations in retinal images carry out early motion processing. On the other hand, individual differences approaches have been able to identify a structure of spatiotemporal...

journal_title：Vision research

authors： Luna R,Serrano-Pedraza I

更新日期：2020-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a series of psychophysical experiments, observers compared the apparent contrast of a dichoptic stimulus (contrast edges of orthogonal orientations in the two eyes) and a monocular stimulus ( a pie pattern in one eye and a blank field in the other eye). When the contrast of the dichoptic stimulus was low (2-3%) the...

journal_title：Vision research

authors： Liu L,Schor CM

更新日期：1995-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent evidence points to the importance of global operations across spatial regions larger than individual cortical receptive fields. Studies of contour integration and motion trajectory detection suggest that network operations between local detectors underlie the encoding of extended contours in space and extended ...

journal_title：Vision research

authors： Hess RF,Ledgeway T,Dakin S

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have used the minimum-motion stimulus of Cavanagh, MacLeod & Anstis [(1987) Journal of the Optical Society of America A, 4, 1428-1438] to examine how signals along different directions in color space interact in motion perception. Stimuli were pairs of counterphasing gratings combined 90 deg out of phase in both sp...

journal_title：Vision research

authors： Webster MA,Mollon JD

更新日期：1997-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The temporal resolution of the visual system progressively increases with light intensity. Under scotopic conditions, temporal resolution is relatively poor, and may be limited by both retinal and cortical processes. Rod photoresponses themselves are quite slow because of the slowly deactivating biochemical cascade ne...

journal_title：Vision research

authors： Fortenbach CR,Kessler C,Peinado Allina G,Burns ME

更新日期：2015-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:5A11/Basigin is an immunoglobulin-like glycoprotein expressed on the surface of Müller cells, the apical and basal surfaces of the retinal pigmented epithelium, and photoreceptor cell bodies and their inner segments. Disruption of the 5A11/Basigin gene in the mouse results in photoreceptor degeneration and a correspon...

journal_title：Vision research

authors： Ochrietor JD,Moroz TP,Clamp MF,Timmers AM,Muramatsu T,Linser PJ

更新日期：2002-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Current concepts of action and perception emphasise a dissociation between conscious visual recognition and visual action control. These models do not expect an effect of the recognisable identity of an object on the kinematic parameterisation of grasping movements under binocular viewing conditions without pre-test l...

journal_title：Vision research

authors： Borchers S,Himmelbach M

更新日期：2012-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Local-motion information can provide either 1-dimensional (1D) or 2-dimensional (2D) solutions. 1D signals occur when the aperture problem has not been solved, so each signal is an estimate of the local-orthogonal component of the object's motion. 2D signals occur when the aperture problem has been solved, so each sig...

journal_title：Vision research

authors： Edwards M,Cassanello CR,Badcock DR,Nishida S

更新日期：2013-01-14 00:00:00

abstract：:The anchoring theory of lightness perception (Gilchrist et al., Psychological Review 106 (1999) 795-834) has been described as one of the most successful approaches to lightness perception. Yet, not only does the original proposal contain serious gaps and inconsistencies, later expressions of the theory, which was nev...

journal_title：Vision research

authors： Maniatis LM

更新日期：2014-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although pictorial illusions have been used to study perception for a long time, the effects of such displays on the visual control of actions has recently been the matter of some debate. Evidence from a re-analysis of an earlier study is presented that suggests pictorial displays can exert opposite effects on percept...

journal_title：Vision research

authors： Haffenden AM,Goodale MA

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Investigations of binocular visual direction have concentrated mainly on stationary objects. Eye positions were generally not measured and binocular fixation was assumed to be perfect. During the viewing of stationary objects, vergence errors are not negligible but small. During the viewing of moving objects, however,...

journal_title：Vision research

authors： Erkelens CJ,Van EE R

更新日期：1997-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have investigated first-order artifacts in second-order motion perception. Subjects were required to identify the orientation and direction of a drifting sinusoidal contrast modulation. When the carrier consisted of static two-dimensional noise, performance often reflected the use of first-order artifacts that aris...

journal_title：Vision research

authors： Smith AT,Ledgeway T

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Movements aimed towards objects occasionally have to be adjusted when the object moves. These online adjustments can be very rapid, occurring in as little as 100ms. More is known about the latency and neural basis of online control of movements to visual than to auditory target objects. We examined the latency of onli...

journal_title：Vision research

authors： Holmes NP,Dakwar AR

更新日期：2015-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Over the past years, knowledge has expanded with regards to the multiple roles played by erythropoietin (EPO) in the body. Once believed to be a hormone synthesised in the kidney and involved only in the modulation of erythrocyte production, it is recognised now that EPO can be produced in many tissues, including the ...

journal_title：Vision research

authors： Reid G,Lois N

更新日期：2017-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The selectivities of neurons in primary visual cortex are often considered to be adapted to the statistics of natural images. Accordingly, simple cell-like tuning emerges when unsupervised learning models that seek sparse representations of input probabilities are trained on natural scenes. However, orientation tuning...

journal_title：Vision research

authors： Hsu AS,Dayan P

更新日期：2007-10-01 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：: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：:The modern study of perception began when Fechner published his 'Elements of Psychophysics' in 1860. This book has guided most perception research ever since. It has become increasingly clear that there are problems with Fechner's approach, which assumes that the percept is completely determined by the sensory input. ...

journal_title：Vision research

authors： Pizlo Z

更新日期：2001-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Visual search is a fundamental and routine task of everyday life. Studying visual search promises to shed light on the basic attentional mechanisms that facilitate visual processing. To investigate visual attention during search processes, numerous studies measured the selectivity of observers' saccadic eye movements ...

journal_title：Vision research

authors： Pomplun M

更新日期：2006-06-01 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：:A two-alternative, spatial forced-choice procedure was used to measure contrast thresholds for detection of sinusoidal gratings that appeared within one-dimensional random noise. The orientation of the noise was symmetrically varied relative to the orientation of the test grating to derive estimates of orientation tun...

journal_title：Vision research

authors： Blake R,Holopigian K

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Absorption of photons by pigments in photoreceptor cells results in photoisomerization of the chromophore, 11-cis-retinal, to all-trans-retinal and activation of opsin. Photolysed chromophore is converted back to the 11-cis-configuration via several enzymatic steps in photoreceptor and retinal pigment epithelial cells...

journal_title：Vision research

authors： Saari JC,Garwin GG,Van Hooser JP,Palczewski K

更新日期：1998-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The role of the perceptual organization of the visual display on eye movement control was examined in two experiments using a task where a two-saccade sequence was directed toward either a single elongated object or three separate shorter objects. In the first experiment, we examined the consequences for the second sa...

journal_title：Vision research

authors： Vergilino-Perez D,Findlay JM

更新日期：2006-07-01 00:00:00