Integration of prior knowledge during haptic exploration depends on information type.

abstract：:Here we examine how global translational motion sensitivity varies with the spatial frequency of the elements in local motion and on the eccentricity of stimulation. Using DC-balanced, spatially narrowband elements (radial log Gabors) matched in terms of multiples above contrast threshold, we show that global translat...

journal_title：Journal of vision

authors： Hess RF,Aaen-Stockdale C

更新日期：2008-04-17 00:00:00

abstract：:During the last decade one of the most contentious and heavily studied topics in the attention literature has been the role that working memory representations play in controlling perceptual selection. The hypothesis has been advanced that to have attention select a certain perceptual input from the environment, we on...

journal_title：Journal of vision

authors： Woodman GF,Carlisle NB,Reinhart RM

更新日期：2013-02-25 00:00:00

abstract：:A common finding in oddity search, a search in which the target is unknown but defined to be different from the distractors, is that human performance remains insensitive or even improves with number of distractors (set size). A number of explanations based on perceptual and attentional mechanisms have been proposed t...

journal_title：Journal of vision

authors： Schoonveld W,Shimozaki SS,Eckstein MP

更新日期：2007-07-06 00:00:00

abstract：:The magnitudes of spike responses of area 17 (striate cortex, area V1) neurons to stimulation of their classical receptive fields were reduced (suppressed) when the stimuli extended into the silent surround regions. We found that when optimally oriented sine-wave drifting grating patches extended into the distant part...

journal_title：Journal of vision

authors： Wang C,Bardy C,Huang JY,FitzGibbon T,Dreher B

更新日期：2009-01-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Perception is often biased by secondary stimulus attributes (e.g., stimulus noise, attention, or spatial context). A correct quantitative characterization of perceptual bias is essential for testing hypotheses about the underlying perceptual mechanisms and computations. We demonstrate that the standard two-alternative...

journal_title：Journal of vision

authors： Jogan M,Stocker AA

更新日期：2014-03-13 00:00:00

abstract：:We previously showed that different types of aberration defocus, coma, and secondary astigmatism affect reading performance via different mechanisms. In this paper, we show the contrary result that, for identification of isolated letters, the effects of rendering different types of aberration can be described by a sin...

journal_title：Journal of vision

authors： Young LK,Love GD,Smithson HE

更新日期：2013-06-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Humans have an ability to rapidly detect emotive stimuli. However, many emotional objects in a scene are also highly visually salient, which raises the question of how dependent the effects of emotionality are on visual saliency and whether the presence of an emotional object changes the power of a more visually salie...

journal_title：Journal of vision

authors： Humphrey K,Underwood G,Lambert T

更新日期：2012-01-25 00:00:00

abstract：:The first two areas of the primate visual cortex (V1, V2) provide a paradigmatic example of hierarchical computation in the brain. However, neither the functional properties of V2 nor the interactions between the two areas are well understood. One key aspect is that the statistics of the inputs received by V2 depend o...

journal_title：Journal of vision

authors： Coen-Cagli R,Schwartz O

更新日期：2013-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous studies have shown that an odd-colored target among uniformly colored distractors can be rapidly detected and localized using broadly distributed attention over an entire display. In the current study, we show that such a broadly distributed attentional allocation is not sufficient for seemingly effortless go...

journal_title：Journal of vision

authors： Song JH,Nakayama K

更新日期：2006-08-30 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe several experiments on contour interactions and crowding effects at the resolution limit of the visual system. As test stimuli we used characters that are often employed in optometric practice for testing visual acuity: Landolt C's, Snellen E's, and rectangular gratings. We tested several hypotheses that h...

journal_title：Journal of vision

authors： Danilova MV,Bondarko VM

更新日期：2007-11-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Macular degeneration and related visual disorders greatly limit foveal function, resulting in reliance on the peripheral retina for tasks requiring fine spatial vision. Here we investigate stimulus manipulations intended to maximize peripheral acuity for dynamic targets. Acuity was measured using a single interval ori...

journal_title：Journal of vision

authors： Patrick JA,Roach NW,McGraw PV

更新日期：2019-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:When people inspect a picture, they progress through two distinct phases of visual processing: an ambient, or exploratory, phase that emphasizes input from peripheral vision and rapid acquisition of low-frequency information, followed by a focal phase that emphasizes central vision, salient objects, and high-frequency...

journal_title：Journal of vision

authors： Eisenberg ML,Zacks JM

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We recently demonstrated that observers are capable of encoding not only summary statistics, such as mean and variance of stimulus ensembles, but also the shape of the ensembles. Here, for the first time, we show the learning dynamics of this process, investigate the possible priors for the distribution shape, and dem...

journal_title：Journal of vision

authors： Chetverikov A,Campana G,Kristjánsson Á

更新日期：2017-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The experience of our visual surroundings appears continuous, contradicting the erratic nature of visual processing due to saccades. A possible way the visual system can construct a continuous experience is by integrating presaccadic and postsaccadic visual input. However, saccades rarely land exactly at the intended ...

journal_title：Journal of vision

authors： Schut MJ,Van der Stoep N,Fabius JH,Van der Stigchel S

更新日期：2018-07-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Contrary to other tasks (free viewing, recognition, visual search), participants often fail to recognize repetition of trials in multiple object tracking (MOT). This study examines the intra- and interindividual variability of eye movements in repeated MOT trials along with the adherence of eye movements to the previo...

journal_title：Journal of vision

authors： Lukavský J

更新日期：2013-06-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Although luminance and color are thought to be processed independently at early stages of visual processing, there is evidence that they interact at later stages. For example, chromatic information has been shown to enhance or suppress depth from luminance depending on whether chromatic edges are aligned or orthogonal...

journal_title：Journal of vision

authors： Clery S,Bloj M,Harris JM

更新日期：2013-04-18 00:00:00

abstract：:What is the relationship between object segmentation and recognition? First, we develop a feature segmentation method that parses faces into features and, in doing so, attempts to approximate human performance. This segmentation-based approach allows us to build featural representations that make explicit the part-who...

journal_title：Journal of vision

authors： Nestor A,Tarr MJ

更新日期：2008-05-23 00:00:00

abstract：:We report the results of three experiments in which observers judged the albedo of surfaces at different locations in rendered, three-dimensional scenes consisting of two rooms connected by a doorway. All surfaces composing the rooms were achromatic and Lambertian, and a gradient of illumination increased with depth. ...

journal_title：Journal of vision

authors： Snyder JL,Doerschner K,Maloney LT

更新日期：2005-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Chromatic vision starts at the retinal photoreceptors but photoreceptors are themselves color-blind, responding only to their effective quantal catch and not to the wavelength of the caught photon per se. Mitchell and Rushton (1971) termed this phenomenon the univariance concept, and it is widely used in designing sil...

journal_title：Journal of vision

authors： Kamar S,Howlett MHC,Kamermans M

更新日期：2019-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A fundamental question in visual perception is to characterize how information from sensory input is integrated with prior probabilities. The role of prior probabilities is controversial for elementary visual processes, which are often believed to be immune from higher-level influences. In this paper, we demonstrate s...

journal_title：Journal of vision

authors： Lu H,Tjan BS,Liu Z

更新日期：2006-01-27 00:00:00

abstract：:We determined the accuracy and precision of 33 objective methods for predicting the results of conventional, sphero-cylindrical refraction from wavefront aberrations in a large population of 200 eyes. Accuracy for predicting defocus (as specified by the population mean error of prediction) varied from -0.50 D to +0.25...

journal_title：Journal of vision

authors： Thibos LN,Hong X,Bradley A,Applegate RA

更新日期：2004-04-23 00:00:00

abstract：:When static observers are presented with a visual simulation of forward self-motion, they generally misestimate distance travelled relative to a previously seen distant target: It has been suggested that this finding can be accounted for by a "leaky path integration" model. In the present study, using a similar experi...

journal_title：Journal of vision

authors： Bossard M,Goulon C,Mestre DR

更新日期：2016-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Patterned backgrounds can induce large shifts in color appearance, even with patterns of only 10% S-cone contrast (S. K. Shevell & P. Monnier, 2005). The present study tested whether a background pattern could induce color shifts even at a below-threshold contrast. In the first experiment, S-cone contrast threshold fo...

journal_title：Journal of vision

authors： Monnier P,Shevell SK

更新日期：2008-09-23 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated the role of gaze in encoding of object landmarks in navigation. Gaze behavior was measured while participants learnt to navigate in a virtual large-scale environment in order to understand the sampling strategies subjects use to select visual information during navigation. The results showed a consiste...

journal_title：Journal of vision

authors： Hamid SN,Stankiewicz B,Hayhoe M

更新日期：2010-10-22 00:00:00

abstract：:To cope with the continuously incoming stream of input, the visual system has to group information across space and time. Usually, spatial and temporal grouping are investigated separately. However, recent findings revealed that these two grouping mechanisms strongly interact and should therefore be studied together r...

journal_title：Journal of vision

authors： Hermens F,Scharnowski F,Herzog MH

更新日期：2010-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In daily life, humans interact with multiple objects in complex environments. A large body of literature demonstrates that target selection is biased toward recently attended features, such that reaches are faster and trajectory curvature is reduced when target features (i.e., color) are repeated (priming of pop-out)....

journal_title：Journal of vision

authors： McCarthy JD,Song JH

更新日期：2016-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:When estimating ego-motion in environments (e.g., tunnels, streets) with varying depth, human subjects confuse ego-acceleration with environment narrowing and ego-deceleration with environment widening. Festl, Recktenwald, Yuan, and Mallot (2012) demonstrated that in nonstereoscopic viewing conditions, this happens de...

journal_title：Journal of vision

authors： Ott F,Pohl L,Halfmann M,Hardiess G,Mallot HA

更新日期：2016-07-01 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：:Changes to the visual environment can happen at many timescales, from very transient to semi-permanent. To adapt optimally, the visual system also adjusts at different timescales, with longer-lasting environmental changes producing longer-lasting effects, but how the visual system adapts in this way remains unknown. H...

journal_title：Journal of vision

authors： Bao M,Fast E,Mesik J,Engel S

更新日期：2013-08-26 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