Interactions between flicker thresholds and luminance pedestals.

abstract：:The squirrel monkey lacks anatomically demonstrable ocular dominance columns, and physiologically it has an ocular dominance distribution in V1 that is very different from that of macaques, with far fewer cells that strongly favor one eye over the other. We tested an alert squirrel monkey for physiological responses t...

journal_title：Vision research

authors： Livingstone MS,Nori S,Freeman DC,Hubel DH

更新日期：1995-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The distal photoreceptors in the tiered retina of Papilio exhibit different spectral sensitivities. There are at least two types of short-wavelength sensitive receptors: an ultraviolet receptor with a normal spectral shape and a violet receptor with a very narrow spectral bandwidth. Furthermore, a blue receptor, a dou...

journal_title：Vision research

authors： Arikawa K,Mizuno S,Scholten DG,Kinoshita M,Seki T,Kitamoto J,Stavenga DG

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A masking paradigm was employed to measure the spatial frequency selectivity of channels underlying human stereopsis. Observers viewed spatially filtered (0.4 octave bandwidth) random-dot stereograms in which a disparate bar appeared in either the top or bottom half of the display; superimposed on one RDS half-image w...

journal_title：Vision research

authors： Yang Y,Blake R

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The familiarity effect (FE) refers to the phenomenon that it is easier to find an unfamiliar element on a background of familiar elements than vice versa. In this study, we examined the FE in texture segmentation while recording event-related brain potentials with the aim to find out which processing stages were influ...

journal_title：Vision research

authors： Becker L,Smith DT,Schenk T

更新日期：2017-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated global motion processing in a group of adult amblyopes using a method that allows us to factor out any influence of the known contrast sensitivity deficit. We show that there are independent global motion processing deficits in human amblyopia that are unrelated to the contrast sensitivity deficit, and...

journal_title：Vision research

authors： Simmers AJ,Ledgeway T,Hess RF,McGraw PV

更新日期：2003-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Saccadic and manual responses were used to investigate the speed of discrimination between happy and non-happy facial expressions in two-alternative-forced-choice tasks. The minimum latencies of correct saccadic responses indicated that the earliest time point at which discrimination occurred ranged between 200 and 28...

journal_title：Vision research

authors： Calvo MG,Nummenmaa L

更新日期：2011-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The foveal region of the retina has a yellow pigmentation composed primarily of the carotenoids lutein and zeaxanthin. Past studies have shown that cigarette smoking depresses carotenoid concentrations in the blood. This is the first report on the effects of cigarette smoking on carotenoids in the retina. Macular pigm...

journal_title：Vision research

authors： Hammond BR Jr,Wooten BR,Snodderly DM

更新日期：1996-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Electroretinographic responses (ERGs) have been recorded from the cornea of the little owl (Athene noctua) in response to single light flashes and to alternating sinusoidal gratings (pattern) at different levels of light adaptation. Both flash- and pattern-evoked ERGs show scotopic as well as photopic components. The ...

journal_title：Vision research

authors： Porciatti V,Fontanesi G,Bagnoli P

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human subjects perceive two crossing bars, one in front of the other, when shown a cross with disparity added to its horizontal limbs, and they also perceive neon-color spreading when shown a stereoscopic Redies-Spillmann figure. It has thus been hypothesized that the human visual system follows the principle of gener...

journal_title：Vision research

authors： Uka T,Tanaka H,Kato M,Fujita I

更新日期：1999-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Detection and discrimination of compound grating stimuli were examined in foveal and peripheral vision. At the fovea, stimuli containing two components (spatial frequencies F and 3F) can be discriminated on the basis of their relative spatial phase when the 3F component is at a contrast below its independent detection...

journal_title：Vision research

authors： Stephenson CM,Knapp AJ,Braddick OJ

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have examined the ability of observers to determine the direction of movement of a variety of colored plaid patterns. When the two plaid components are of unequal spatial frequency or of unequal luminance or chromatic contrast, observers judge the direction of movement incorrectly. These errors are correlated with ...

journal_title：Vision research

authors： Kool FL,De Valois KK

更新日期：1992-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A smooth surface imaged on the retina produces a smooth flow field. Thus, the visual system may group regions of smoothly varying flow to segment surfaces. We tested this idea by having observers perform a segmentation task on several stimuli that differed in their 3D interpretations but were all matched in the smooth...

journal_title：Vision research

authors： Bravo MJ,Farid H

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:According to the Oppel-Kundt illusion, a filled space appears larger than an empty one. In the present research we studied how textural characteristics affect the perceived size of two-dimensional patterns. We investigated the perceived extension of square textures by manipulating spatial frequency and filling microel...

journal_title：Vision research

authors： Giora E,Gori S

更新日期：2010-11-23 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of the involuntary ocular oscillations on visual resolution was examined in 22 albinos and 11 idiopaths with congenital nystagmus. The idiopaths showed a linear relationship between the proportion of the slow phase spent at low velocities (less than or equal to deg/sec) and the log of the minimum angle of ...

journal_title：Vision research

authors： Abadi RV,Pascal E

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Image stability during self-motion is achieved via a combination of the optokinetic and vestibulo-ocular reflexes (OKR and VOR). To determine whether distinct neuronal mechanisms are used to calibrate eye movements driven by visual and vestibular signals, we examined the developmental maturation and adaptive plasticit...

journal_title：Vision research

authors： Faulstich BM,Onori KA,du Lac S

更新日期：2004-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ability to judge the separation between two target lines deteriorates as the base separation increases. Several lines of evidence suggest that this may be due to larger base separations being processed by mechanisms that cover larger areas and which have a greater associated positional uncertainty as a consequence...

journal_title：Vision research

authors： Badcock DR,Sullivan K

更新日期：1994-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Effects of optical correction on best-corrected grating acuity (vertical (V), horizontal (H), oblique (O)), vernier acuity (V, H, O), contrast sensitivity (1.5, 6.0, and 18.0 cy/deg spatial frequency, V and H), and stereoacuity were evaluated prospectively in 4- to 13-year-old astigmats and a non-astigmatic age-matche...

journal_title：Vision research

authors： Harvey EM,Dobson V,Miller JM,Clifford-Donaldson CE

更新日期：2008-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Perception of short-range motion was studied as a function of adapting luminance and of stimulus contrast in computer simulations and in psychophysical experiments. The stimuli were random dots plotted on an oscilloscope in two sequential frames, separated by an inter-stimulus interval (ISI). Both in the simulations a...

journal_title：Vision research

authors： Dawson M,Di Lollo V

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Visual search can simply be defined as the task of looking for objects of interest in cluttered visual environments. Typically, the human visual system succeeds at this by making a series of rapid eye movements called saccades, interleaved by discrete fixations. However, very little is known on how the brain programs ...

journal_title：Vision research

authors： Tavassoli A,Linde Iv,Bovik AC,Cormack LK

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:First a model is presented that accurately summarizes the dynamic properties of cat horizontal (H-) cells under photopic conditions as measured in our previous work. The model predicts that asymmetries in response to dark as compared to light flashes are flash-duration dependent. This somewhat surprising prediction is...

journal_title：Vision research

authors： van de Grind WA,Lankheet MJ,van Wezel RJ,Rowe MH,Hulleman J

更新日期：1996-12-01 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：:Reach and grasp movements are a fundamental part of our daily interactions with the environment. This spatially-guided behavior is often directed to memorized objects because of intervening eye movements that caused them to disappear from sight. How does the brain store and maintain the spatial representations of obje...

journal_title：Vision research

authors： Selen LP,Medendorp WP

更新日期：2011-04-22 00:00:00

abstract：:The study examines age-dependent changes of kynurenic acid (KYNA) content and kynurenine aminotransferases (KAT I and KAT II) celluar expression in the retinas of DBA/2J mice. Retinas were obtained from DBA/2J mice of different ages (3, 6 and 11 months). C57BL6 mice were used as controls. As measured with HPLC, KYNA c...

journal_title：Vision research

authors： Rejdak R,Kohler K,Kocki T,Shenk Y,Turski WA,Okuno E,Lehaci C,Zagorski Z,Zrenner E,Schuettauf F

更新日期：2004-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the classic double-step paradigm, subjects are required to make a saccade to a visual target that is briefly presented at one location and then shifted to a new location before the subject has responded. The saccades in this situation are "reflexive" in that they are made in response to the appearance of the target...

journal_title：Vision research

authors： Sheliga BM,Brown VJ,Miles FA

更新日期：2002-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To study the L- and M-cone pathways and their interactions in patients with cone and cone-rod dystrophies, ERG responses were measured to stimuli which modulated exclusively the L- or the M-cones, or the two simultaneously. The L- and M-cone driven ERG amplitudes were considerably reduced in the patients. The mean pha...

journal_title：Vision research

authors： Scholl HP,Kremers J

更新日期：2003-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vestibulo-ocular reflex (VOR)-optokinetic reflex (OKR) interaction was studied in normal human subjects during active sine-like head movements in the horizontal plane for a variety of vestibular-optokinetic stimulus combinations (frequency range, 0.05-1.6 Hz). At low to mid frequencies (< 0.2 Hz) the eyes tended to be...

journal_title：Vision research

authors： Schweigart G,Mergner T,Evdokimidis I,Morand S,Becker W

更新日期：1997-06-01 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：:We recently found that the Rb protein is important for the regulation of retinal progenitor cell proliferation and rod photoreceptor development in the mouse retina. These two functions are separate for Rb and in this study we further characterize the role of Rb in retinal development. At postnatal day 12 in the retin...

journal_title：Vision research

authors： Donovan SL,Dyer MA

更新日期：2004-12-01 00:00:00

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：:This study investigated whether low-level attentional processes as indicated by saccade trajectories are modulated by higher-order factors as indicated by participants' cultural background. We hypothesized that if the East Asian participants engage in context-dependent attentional processing to a greater extent than t...

journal_title：Vision research

authors： Petrova K,Wentura D,Fu X

更新日期：2013-05-24 00:00:00