abstract：:Face aftereffects can provide information on how faces are stored by the human visual system (eg Leopold et al, 2001 Nature Neuroscience 4 89-94), but few studies have used robustly represented (highly familiar) faces. In this study we investigated the influence of facial familiarity on adaptation effects. Participant...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Laurence S,Hole G

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The stimulus in the outdoor psychophysical experiment was formed by two rods placed on the ground plane over a range of possible distances and orientations. Observers estimated its size and direction by positioning the third rod in the neighbouring space to form an evenly spaced collinear triple of rods. The data reve...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Sikl R,Simecek M

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We present two experiments that examine sensory processing during conditions of inattentional blindness. A large rectangular frame that normally induces a Roelofs effect can go unreported due to inattentional blindness. Even when participants fail to report the frame, they mislocalize an attended target in a way consi...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Lathrop WB,Bridgeman B,Tseng P

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Deaf individuals rely on facial expressions for emotional, social, and linguistic cues. In order to test the hypothesis that specialized experience with faces can alter typically observed gaze patterns, twelve hearing adults and twelve deaf, early-users of American Sign Language judged the emotion and identity of expr...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Letourneau SM,Mitchell TV

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Konkle and Oliva (in press, Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance) found that the preferred ('canonical') visual size of a picture of an object within a frame is proportional to the logarithm of its known physical size. They used within-participants designs on several tasks, including ha...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Linsen S,Leyssen MH,Sammartino J,Palmer SE

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The perceptual salience and semantic relevance of objects for the meaning of a scene were evaluated with multiple criteria and then manipulated in a change-detection experiment that used an original combination of one-shot and tachistoscopic divided-visual-field paradigms to study behavioural hemispheric asymmetry. Co...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Spotorno S,Faure S

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A sudden luminance increment on a moving stimulus was perceived significantly along the trajectory, in the direction of motion, from its displayed position. A nonlinear relationship with stimulus speed, for a Fröhlich-like illusion, but not for the luminance-increment illusion, challenges certain models of spatial mis...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Habota T,Chappell M

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated which reference frames are preferred when matching spatial language to the haptic domain. Sighted, low-vision, and blind participants were tested on a haptic-sentence-verification task where participants had to haptically explore different configurations of a ball and a shoe and judge the relation betw...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Struiksma ME,Noordzij ML,Postma A

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the rubber-hand illusion, observing a rubber hand stroked in synchrony with one's own hand results in mislocalisation of the own hand, which is perceived as being located closer to the rubber hand. This illusion depends on having the rubber hand placed at a plausible egocentric orientation with respect to the obser...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Kontaris I,Downing PE

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Embodied cognition and perceptual symbol theories assume that higher cognition interacts with and is grounded in perception and action. Recent experiments have shown that language processing interacts with perceptual processing in various ways, indicating that linguistic representations have a strong perceptual charac...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Pelekanos V,Moutoussis K

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Can listeners distinguish unfamiliar performers playing the same piece on the same instrument? Professional performers recorded two expressive and two inexpressive interpretations of a short organ piece. Nonmusicians and musicians listened to these recordings and grouped together excerpts they thought had been played ...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Gingras B,Lagrandeur-Ponce T,Giordano BL,McAdams S

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The five senses were handed down by Aristotle. I argue that it has only taken two millennia to recognize that the immune system has been the hidden sensory modality. The immune system completes the range of operation allowing detection of meaningful entities at all distances, from very near to very far. It also withst...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Bedford FL

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We directly compared recognition for faces following 0 degrees-75 degrees viewpoint rotation about the yaw, pitch, and roll axes. The aim was to determine the extent to which configural and featural information supported face recognition following rotations about each of these axes. Experiment 1 showed that performanc...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Favelle SK,Palmisano S,Avery G

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent data show that psychosocial factors affect visual perception. We tested this hypothesis by investigating the relationship between affective closeness and the perception of apertures between two people. People feel discomfort when they are near someone they are not affectively close to. Therefore, we predict tha...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Morgado N,Muller D,Gentaz E,Palluel-Germain R

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:People rapidly and automatically evaluate faces along many social dimensions. Here, we focus on judgments of trustworthiness, which approximate basic valence evaluation of faces, and test whether these judgments are an overgeneralization of the perception of emotional expressions. We used a behavioral adaptation parad...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Engell AD,Todorov A,Haxby JV

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Numerous studies have shown that visual stimuli can bias the perceived location of auditory stimuli. Here, we sought to determine if a visual stimulus can also bias the perceived location of multiple internal auditory stimuli. Fifty subjects were presented with a train of eight binaural click-pairs over headphones whi...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Dellorso S,Schirillo J

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Clear differences in perceptual and neural processing of faces of different species have been reported, implying the contribution of visual experience to face perception. Can these differences be revealed by our eye scanning patterns while we extract salient facial information? Here, we systematically compared non-pet...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Guo K,Tunnicliffe D,Roebuck H

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Crossmodal linkage between the olfactory and visual senses is still largely underexplored. In this study, we investigated crossmodal olfactory-visual associations by testing whether and how visual processing of objects is affected by the presence of olfactory cues. To this end, we explored the influence of prior learn...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Seigneuric A,Durand K,Jiang T,Baudouin JY,Schaal B

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent reports from electrophysiological and psychophysical experiments provide evidence that repeated exposure to an ordered sequence of morphed stimuli may over time adapt a prelearned object category such that the category may generalise the entire sequence as belonging to the same object. Here, a new protocol that...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Hadas D,Intrator N,Yovel G

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Abstract. Patrick Hughes's 'reverspective' artworks provide a novel way of investigating the effectiveness of different sources of 3-D information for the human visual system. Our empirical findings show that the converging lines of simple linear perspective can be as effective as the rich array of 3-D cues present in...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Rogers B,Gyani A

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Classical apparent motion stimuli exhibit an inherent ambiguity with respect to the onsets and offsets of the stimulus elements. Sigman and Rock (1974, Perception 3 9-28) presented evidence suggesting that occlusion cues are used to resolve this ambiguity. We present results from experiments designed to further test p...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Ekroll V,Borzikowsky C

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We explored the hypothesis that an enhanced local processing style is characteristic of both art and autism spectrum disorder (ASD) by examining local and global processing in savant artists with ASD. Specifically, savant artists were compared against non-talented individuals with ASD or mild/moderate learning difficu...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Pring L,Ryder N,Crane L,Hermelin B

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In their seminal study Diamond and Carey (1986, Journal of Experimental Psychology: General 115 107-117) found a larger inversion effect for dog pictures in dog experts than novices, supporting a role of visual expertise in the observation of particularly large inversion effects for faces. However, subsequent studies ...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Rossion B,Curran T

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pain synaesthetes experience pain in a presensitised region when observing or imagining another person in pain. We conducted an upper-limb embodiment study using a modified rubber-hand illusion in which lower-limb amputees originally participated as control subjects for the upper-limb amputees. While we found all subj...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Giummarra MJ,Fitzgibbon BM,Georgiou-Karistianis N,Nicholls ME,Gibson SJ,Bradshaw JL

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:When a large optic-flow pattern is viewed, induced self-motion perception (vection) can result even for observers who are stationary relative to Earth. Vection is common in optokinetic drums, large-screen cinemas, vehicle simulators, and other virtual environments. However, not all optic-flow patterns are equally effe...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Bubka A,Bonato F

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:'Rotating snakes' is an illusory figure in which the 'snakes' are perceived to rotate. We report that when the image moves smoothly, the snakes do not appear to rotate, although the retinal images are continuously refreshed. Therefore, to produce the illusion, the image should remain stationary (without being refreshe...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Tomimatsu E,Ito H,Seno T,Sunaga S

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Groups of high- (n = 14), intermediate- (n = 12), and low-skilled (n = 15) cricket batsmen participated in two experiments to examine expertise-related differences in anticipatory information pick-up that combined temporal and spatial occlusion methodologies. In experiment 1 participants were shown video displays of a...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Müller S,Abernethy B,Eid M,McBean R,Rose M

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A new motion illusion based on dot-trajectory misperception is presented. The illusory effect can not be explained by the aperture problem unlike some previous illusions characterised by misperception of motion direction. We propose an explanation in terms of 'perceptual compromise' between an original type of apparen...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Gori S,Giora E,Stubbs DA

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The scintillating grid illusion refers to the illusory perception of black spots on luminance patches at the intersections of a grey grid on a black background. We examined how spatial parameters of luminance patches modulated the strength of the illusion. In experiment 1, we controlled the size and shape of the lumin...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Qian K,Yamada Y,Kawabe T,Miura K

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bodily illusions differently affect body representations underlying perception and action. We investigated whether this task dependence reflects two distinct dimensions of embodiment: the sense of agency and the sense of the body as a coherent whole. In experiment 1 the sense of agency was manipulated by comparing act...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Kammers MP,Longo MR,Tsakiris M,Dijkerman HC,Haggard P

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated audiovisual speed perception to test the maximum-likelihood-estimation (MLE) model of multisensory integration. According to MLE, audiovisual speed perception will be based on a weighted average of visual and auditory speed estimates, with each component weighted by its inverse variance, a statisticall...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Bentvelzen A,Leung J,Alais D

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is purported that the local perceptual style characteristic of those with autism results in them reproducing line drawings in a more localised manner than comparison individuals. Here we report an exception to this: the drawing strategies of those with autism were more global. When reproducing line drawings depicti...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Sheppard E,Ropar D,Mitchell P

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Perception relates not only to the optical information from the environment but also to the perceiver's performance on a given task. We present evidence that the perceived height and width of an American-football field goal post relates to the perceiver's kicking performance. Participants who made more successful kick...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Witt JK,Dorsch TE

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated here how partly occluded stimuli affect early and late prehension kinematics. Stimuli were pictures of partly occluded cylindrical objects with indentations or protrusions at regular intervals along the contour. They diverged into two plausible completions: a local completion, comprising a linear conti...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Lommertzen J,Van Lier R,Meulenbroek RG

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper presents the results of some recent experiments in neuroscience and perceptual science that reveal the role of virtual reality in normal visual perception, and the use of television technology by the visual brain. This involves particularly the cholinergic system in the forebrain. This research throws new l...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Smythies J

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We examined the influence of spatial factors in temporal processing. Participants categorised as short or long empty intervals marked by two brief flashes delivered from locations differing in height and depth (experiment 1), or from two of three locations on a vertical plane (experiment 2). The perceived duration of ...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Roussel ME,Grondin S,Killeen P

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Outline pictures depict surface edges, and via extensions from this base they can represent sensory and psychological referents. Outline drawings standing for edges of surfaces are relatively ancient, and lines for actions, sounds, and psychological states quite recent--mostly little more than a century. The novel fin...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Kennedy JM

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Anomalous motion illusions represent a popular class of illusions and several studies have made an effort to explain their perception. However, understanding is still inconsistent. Age-related differences in susceptibility to illusory motion may contribute to further clarification of the underlying processing mechanis...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Billino J,Hamburger K,Gegenfurtner KR

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The earliest known explicit and unambiguous employment of representation in external media is in the form of figurative depictions of large mammals during the Upper Palaeolithic. These images, though often created with evident technical skill and intimate knowledge of the subject matter, are frequently characterised b...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Cheyne JA,Meschino L,Smilek D

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the present study, we examined ascription of bizarreness to faces in a ratings task by children aged 8-10 and 11-13 years, and by adults. Configural information was manipulated subtly (a single eye was inverted) or in a more salient manner (eye and mouth were inverted). By utilizing brief presentations we restricte...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Anes MD,Short LA

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00