Perceptual insensitivity to higher-order statistical moments of coherent random dot motion.

abstract：:We present a numerical analysis of rendered pairs of rooms, in which the spectral power distribution of the illuminant in one room matched the surface reflectance function in the other room, and vice versa. We ask whether distinction between the rooms is possible and on what cues this discrimination is based. Using ac...

journal_title：Journal of vision

authors： Ruppertsberg AI,Bloj M

更新日期：2007-10-30 00:00:00

abstract：:The visual system utilizes environmental features to direct gaze efficiently when locating objects. While previous research has isolated various features' contributions to gaze guidance, these studies generally used sparse displays and did not investigate how features facilitated search as a function of their location...

journal_title：Journal of vision

authors： Nuthmann A,Malcolm GL

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human observers can determine whether natural scenes contain an animal or not on the basis of as little as 20 ms viewing; a phenomenon termed ultra-rapid categorization (URC). Recent studies have suggested that URC is unimpaired even when attention resources are concurrently devoted to a second task. This apparent ind...

journal_title：Journal of vision

authors： Walker S,Stafford P,Davis G

更新日期：2008-04-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Our ability to process numerical and temporal information is an evolutionary skill thought to originate from a common magnitude system. In line with a common magnitude system, we have previously shown that adaptation to duration alters numerosity perception. Here, we investigate two hypotheses on how duration influenc...

journal_title：Journal of vision

authors： Tsouli A,van der Smagt MJ,Dumoulin SO,Pas SFT

更新日期：2019-06-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Understanding how the human brain discriminates complex visual patterns, such as individual faces, is an important issue in Vision Science. Here we tested sensitivity to individual faces using steady-state visual-evoked potentials (SSVEPs). Twelve participants were presented with 90-s sequences of faces appearing at a...

journal_title：Journal of vision

authors： Rossion B,Boremanse A

更新日期：2011-02-23 00:00:00

abstract：:In the barber-pole illusion (BPI), a diagonally moving grating is perceived as moving vertically because of the shape of the vertically oriented window through which it is viewed-a strong shape-motion interaction. We introduce a novel stimulus-the moving barber pole-in which a diagonal, drifting sinusoidal carrier is ...

journal_title：Journal of vision

authors： Sun P,Chubb C,Sperling G

更新日期：2014-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs) trained on visual objects have shown intriguing ability to predict some response properties of visual cortical neurons. However, the factors (e.g., if the model is trained or not, receptive field size) and computations (e.g., convolution, rectification, pooling, normalization)...

journal_title：Journal of vision

authors： Laskar MNU,Sanchez Giraldo LG,Schwartz O

更新日期：2020-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Contrast discrimination functions for simple gratings famously look like a dipper. Discrimination thresholds are lower than detection thresholds for moderate pedestal contrasts, and the rate of growth of thresholds as the pedestal contrast gets larger typically lies between the values implied by two popular treatments...

journal_title：Journal of vision

authors： Sanborn AN,Dayan P

更新日期：2011-12-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Traditional models of visual search such as feature integration theory (FIT; Treisman & Gelade, 1980), have suggested that a key factor determining task difficulty consists of whether or not the search target contains a "basic feature" not found in the other display items (distractors). Here we discriminate between su...

journal_title：Journal of vision

authors： Chang H,Rosenholtz R

更新日期：2016-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Observers performed three between- and two within-category perceptual decisions with hybrid stimuli comprising low and high spatial frequency (SF) images. We manipulated (a) attention to, and (b) congruency of information in the two SF bands. Processing difficulty of the different SF bands varied across different cate...

journal_title：Journal of vision

authors： Rotshtein P,Schofield A,Funes MJ,Humphreys GW

更新日期：2010-08-24 00:00:00

abstract：:The saccadic distractor effect, in which irrelevant stimuli delay saccades to target stimuli, is a popular tool for investigating saccadic competition. Here, we outline the main components of a competition framework to account for the temporal dynamics of the distractor effect, inspired by race models of saccade gener...

journal_title：Journal of vision

authors： Bompas A,Sumner P

更新日期：2009-08-28 00:00:00

abstract：:The ability to track multiple moving objects with attention has been the focus of much research. However, the literature is relatively inconclusive regarding two key aspects of this ability, (1) whether the distribution of attention among the tracked targets is fixed during a period of tracking or is dynamically adjus...

journal_title：Journal of vision

authors： Iordanescu L,Grabowecky M,Suzuki S

更新日期：2009-04-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Relatively little is known about the processes, both linear and nonlinear, by which signals are combined beyond V1. By presenting two stimulus components simultaneously, flickering at different temporal frequencies (frequency tagging) while measuring steady-state visual evoked potentials, we can assess responses to th...

journal_title：Journal of vision

authors： Cunningham DGM,Baker DH,Peirce JW

更新日期：2017-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Computational models of spatial vision typically make use of a (rectified) linear filter, a nonlinearity and dominant late noise to account for human contrast discrimination data. Linear-nonlinear cascade models predict an improvement in observers' contrast detection performance when low, subthreshold levels of extern...

journal_title：Journal of vision

authors： Goris RL,Wagemans J,Wichmann FA

更新日期：2008-11-24 00:00:00

abstract：:An expanding object, which may represent an approaching motion, is easier to detect than a contracting one, which may represent a receding object. To confirm the generality of asymmetry in the detection of approaching and receding motions, we focused on the perception of apparent motion in depth created by moving cast...

journal_title：Journal of vision

authors： Imura T,Shirai N,Tomonaga M,Yamaguchi MK,Yagi A

更新日期：2008-10-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Moving objects are often occluded by neighboring objects. In order for the eye to smoothly pursue a moving object that is transiently occluded, a prediction of its trajectory is necessary. For targets moving on a linear path, predictive eye velocity can be regulated on the basis of target motion before and after the o...

journal_title：Journal of vision

authors： Orban de Xivry JJ,Missal M,Lefèvre P

更新日期：2008-11-17 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study we investigate temporal slowness as a learning principle for receptive fields using slow feature analysis, a new algorithm to determine functions that extract slowly varying signals from the input data. We find a good qualitative and quantitative match between the set of learned functions trained on imag...

journal_title：Journal of vision

authors： Berkes P,Wiskott L

更新日期：2005-07-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Many common activities, like reading, scanning scenes, or searching for an inconspicuous item in a cluttered environment, entail serial movements of the eyes that shift the gaze from one object to another. Previous studies have shown that the primate brain is capable of programming sequential saccadic eye movements in...

journal_title：Journal of vision

authors： Ray S,Bhutani N,Murthy A

更新日期：2012-03-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Studies have shown that displacing specular highlights from their natural locations in images reduces perceived surface gloss. Here, we assessed the extent to which perceived gloss depends on congruence in the position and orientation of specular highlights relative to surface shape and the diffuse shading from which ...

journal_title：Journal of vision

authors： Kim J,Marlow P,Anderson BL

更新日期：2011-08-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Reading speed in normal peripheral vision is slow but can be increased through training on a letter-recognition task. The aim of the present study is to investigate the sensory and cognitive factors responsible for this improvement. The visual span is hypothesized to be a sensory bottleneck limiting reading speed. Thr...

journal_title：Journal of vision

authors： He Y,Legge GE,Yu D

更新日期：2013-06-24 00:00:00

abstract：:This study investigates the impact of language on color perception. By categorical facilitation, we refer to an aspect of categorical perception, in which the linguistic distinction between categories affects color discrimination beyond the low-level, sensory sensitivity to color differences. According to this idea, d...

journal_title：Journal of vision

authors： Witzel C,Gegenfurtner KR

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human object recognition is remarkably efficient. In recent years, significant advancements have been made in our understanding of how the brain represents visual objects and organizes them into categories. Recent studies using pattern analyses methods have characterized a representational space of objects in human an...

journal_title：Journal of vision

authors： Carlson T,Tovar DA,Alink A,Kriegeskorte N

更新日期：2013-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In order to maintain visual stability during self-motion, the brain needs to update any egocentric spatial representations of the environment. Here, we use a novel psychophysical approach to investigate how and to what extent the brain integrates visual, extraocular, and vestibular signals pertaining to this spatial u...

journal_title：Journal of vision

authors： Clemens IA,Selen LP,Koppen M,Medendorp WP

更新日期：2012-11-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent studies suggest that the active observer combines optic flow information with extra-retinal signals resulting from head motion. Such a combination allows, in principle, a correct discrimination of the presence or absence of surface rotation. In Experiments 1 and 2, observers were asked to perform such discrimin...

journal_title：Journal of vision

authors： Fantoni C,Caudek C,Domini F

更新日期：2010-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Studying human behavior in the natural context of everyday visual tasks--including locomotor tasks such as driving--can reveal visual strategies or even suggest underlying visual mechanisms. This paper reviews empirical and theoretical work in the past 20 years (1994-2014) on the visual control of steering a vehicle a...

journal_title：Journal of vision

authors： Lappi O

更新日期：2014-10-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Heterochromatic flicker photometry (HFP), minimum motion (MM), and minimally distinct border (MDB) settings have often been used to determine equiluminance, a relative intensity setting for two chromaticities that, in theory, eliminates the responses of a luminance or achromatic psychophysical mechanism. These setting...

journal_title：Journal of vision

authors： He J,Taveras Cruz Y,Eskew RT Jr

更新日期：2020-04-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Smooth pursuit eye movements (SP) were studied in 5- and 9-month-old infants and adults in response to a rhombus oscillating horizontally behind three spatially separated vertical occluders. During motion, the rhombus vertices were never visible. Thus the perception of the global motion of the rhombus required integra...

journal_title：Journal of vision

authors： Kochukhova O,Rosander K

更新日期：2008-08-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Three experimental paradigms were used to investigate the perception of orientation relative to internal categorical standards of vertical and horizontal. In Experiment 1, magnitude estimation of orientation (in degrees) relative to vertical and horizontal replicated a previously reported spatial orientation bias also...

journal_title：Journal of vision

authors： Durgin FH,Li Z

更新日期：2011-07-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Visual systems adapt to the prevailing image conditions. This improves the ability to discriminate between two similar stimuli but has the side effect that veridical perception is degraded. For example, prolonged driving at 100 km/h may reduce the perceived speed to 80 km/h but improve the sensitivity to changes in th...

journal_title：Journal of vision

authors： Hietanen MA,Crowder NA,Ibbotson MR

更新日期：2008-08-11 00:00:00

abstract：:In retinotopically organized areas of the macaque visual cortex, neurons have been found that shift their receptive fields before a saccade to their postsaccadic position. This saccadic remapping has been interpreted as a mechanism contributing to perceptual stability of space across eye movements. So far, there is on...

journal_title：Journal of vision

authors： Wittenberg M,Bremmer F,Wachtler T

更新日期：2008-10-23 00:00:00