abstract：:In the Freezing Rotation illusion a stimulus rotating with a constant velocity is perceived as stationary on the screen, when it is presented in front of a background pattern that moves with a sinusoidal velocity profile, during the phase in which stimulus and background rotate in the same direction. It has been sugge...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Wertheim AH,Paffen CL

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:More than three-quarters of a century ago Wertheimer and Benary demonstrated an ingenious and clear, though, interestingly, small effect: a grey triangle just inside an arm of a black cross on a white background appears slightly lighter than an identical triangle immediately adjacent to the cross, despite both triangl...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Huang AE,Ghosh S,Hon AJ,Goris-Rosales J,Altschuler EL

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The differences in P300 latency, P300 amplitude, response selection, and reaction time between skilled and less-skilled cricket batsmen have been investigated. Eight skilled and ten less-skilled right-handed batsmen each viewed 100 in-swing, 100 out-swing, and 40 slower deliveries displayed in random sequence from pro...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Sharhidd Taliep M,St Clair Gibson A,Gray J,van der Merwe L,Vaughan CL,Noakes TD,Kellaway LA,John LR

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Most cognitive scientists know that an airplane tends to lose its engine when the display is flickering. How does such prior experience influence visual search? We recorded eye movements made by vision researchers while they were actively performing a change-detection task. In selected trials, we presented Rensink's f...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Takahashi K,Watanabe K

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We used the visual-masking paradigm to compare temporal characteristics of chimpanzee vision with those of humans. Two types of masking experiments were conducted. One type involved masking by noise, in which the visibility of the geometric pattern target was tested with a spatially overlapping noise as the mask stimu...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Matsuno T,Tomonaga M

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Shapes on the surface of a perspective picture may be misperceived. Subjects picked a match for an ellipse depicting the circular top of a cylinder. The top was depicted as tilted forward from 5 degrees to 85 degrees, generating a series of ellipses on the picture surface. The matches were biased towards a circle over...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Hammad S,Kennedy JM,Juricevic I,Rajani S

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gori and Hamburger (2006, Perception 35 853-857) devised a new visual illusion of relative motion elicited by the observer's motion. We propose that the systematic error of direction discrimination found by Lorenceau et al (1993, Vision Research 33 1207 - 1217) can explain this illusion. The neural correlate of such a...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Gori S,Yazdanbakhsh A

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper focuses on the epistemic conditions of visual perception, ie it concentrates on the question of what kind of knowledge is required for us in order to be able to see colours and shapes as spatial properties of things. According to contemporary theories of sensory perception that follow the tradition of Georg...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Schumacher R

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Humans exhibit seasonal variation in hormone levels, behaviour, and perception. Here we show that men's assessments of women's attractiveness change also seasonally. In five seasons (from winter 2004 to winter 2005) 114 heterosexual men were asked to assess the attractiveness of the same stimuli: photos of a female wi...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Pawlowski B,Sorokowski P

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The perceived temporal order of external successive events does not always follow their physical temporal order. We examined the contribution of self-motion mechanisms in the perception of temporal order in the auditory modality. We measured perceptual biases in the judgment of the temporal order of two short sounds p...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Teramoto W,Watanabe H,Umemura H

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We estimated the location of the auditory egocentre in congenitally blind, late-onset blind, and normally sighted participants, using a revised auditory version of Howard and Templeton's method. The mean location of the auditory egocentre of the congenitally blind participants was found to be close to the midpoint of ...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Sukemiya H,Nakamizo S,Ono H

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Reflections on the senses, and particularly on vision, permeate the writings of Galileo Galilei, one of the main protagonists of the scientific revolution. This aspect of his work has received scant attention by historians, in spite of its importance for his achievements in astronomy, and also for the significance in ...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Piccolino M,Wade NJ

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two psychophysical experiments are reported, one dealing with the visual perception of the head orientation of another person (the 'looker') and the other dealing with the perception of the looker's direction of eye gaze. The participant viewed the looker with different retinal eccentricities, ranging from foveal to f...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Loomis JM,Kelly JW,Pusch M,Bailenson JN,Beall AC

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Modern developments in machine vision and object recognition have generated renewed interest in the proposal for drawing inferences put forward by the Rev. Thomas Bayes (1701-1759). In this connection the epistemological studies by Hermann Helmholtz (1821-1894) are often cited as laying the foundation of the currently...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Westheimer G

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There is a growing interest in the question whether the phenomenon of subitising (fast and accurate detection of fewer than 4-5 stimuli presented simultaneously), widely thought to affect numerosity judgments in vision, can also affect the processing of tactile stimuli. In a recent study, in which multiple tactile sti...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Gallace A,Tan HZ,Spence C

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated the interactions between matching identity and expressions of unfamiliar faces. In experiment 1, participants matched expressions in frontal and in oblique views, while we manipulated facial identity. In experiment 2, participants matched identity in frontal and in oblique views, while facial expressio...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Levy Y,Bentin S

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:How is our gaze dispersed across the screen when watching television? An exploratory eyetracker study with a custom-designed show indicated a very strong center-of-screen bias with gaze points following a roughly normal distribution peaked near screen center. Examining the show across time revealed that people were ra...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Brasel SA,Gips J

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Our aim has been to study visual search in hierarchical patterns through a computational neuroscience perspective. In this way we were able to analyse the relationship between the global precedence effect and attention. The theoretical part of our investigations extended a model built upon the biased-competition hypot...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Deco G,Heinke D

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A novel grouping and interpolation effect induced by flickering stimuli is described: a matrix of flickering elements forms stick-like clusters, then the clusters gradually dissociate back into the discrete elements within a few seconds. On continuous viewing, this flicker-induced grouping and interpolation repeatedly...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Sasaki H

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The information that people use to perceive whether a tool is suitable for a certain task depends on what is available at a given time. Visually scanning a tool and wielding it each provide information about the functional attributes of the tool. In experiment 1, we investigated the relative contributions of vision an...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Michaels CF,Weier Z,Harrison SJ

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mirror puzzle related to the perception of mirror images as left-right reversed can be more fully understood by considering an extended problem that includes also the perception of mirror images that are not left-right reversed. The purpose of the present study is to clarify the physical aspect of this extended pr...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Yoshimura H,Tabata T

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Prosopagnosia is a selective impairment of the visual learning and recognition of faces. The congenital type, which is not accompanied by detectable brain damage or malformation, was recently found to be far more common than previously known. Therefore, one should expect that at least a few biographies or autobiograph...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Grüter T,Grüter M

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Multisensory integration is a powerful mechanism for maximizing sensitivity to sensory events. We examined its effects on auditory localization in healthy human subjects. The specific objective was to test whether the relative intensity and location of a seemingly irrelevant visual stimulus would influence auditory lo...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Bolognini N,Leo F,Passamonti C,Stein BE,Làdavas E

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This is the first study to test the extent to which reflections help locate objects in space and perceive their size. For planar mirrors, the relative size of a target and its reflection is informative about the absolute distance of the target in units of the distance between target and mirror surface. When the target...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Jones LA,Bertamini M

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:"Which weighs more--a pound of lead or a pound of feathers?" The seemingly naive answer to the familiar riddle is the pound of lead. The correct answer, of course, is that they weigh the same amount. We investigated whether the naive answer to the riddle might have a basis in perception. When blindfolded participants ...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Wagman JB,Zimmerman C,Sorric C

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bilateral symmetry is important in many perceptual analyses from low-level figure-ground segmentation to higher-level face and object perception. Despite the success of low-level, image-based symmetry-detection models, these may not provide a complete account of symmetry perception. Better symmetry detection and stron...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Rhodes G,Peters M,Ewing LA

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:As part of an investigation into real-world drawing, eye movements and eye-hand interactions have been recorded for twenty subjects of varying drawing experience drawing simple straight and curved lines and a square. Two modes of eye-hand behaviour were observed. In the first, named 'close pursuit', fixations closely ...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Tchalenko J

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Faces are difficult to recognise when presented upside down. This effect of face inversion was effectively demonstrated with the 'Thatcher illusion' by Thompson (1980 Perception 9 483-484). It has been tacitly assumed that this effect is due to inversion relative to retinal coordinates. Here we tested whether it is du...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Lobmaier JS,Mast FW

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two psychophysical experiments were conducted to investigate the mechanism that generates stable depth structure from retinal motion combined with extraretinal signals from pursuit eye movements. Stimuli consisted of random dots that moved horizontally in one direction (ie stimuli had common motion on the retina), but...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Mitsudo H,Ono H

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous research into the effects of viewpoint change on face recognition has typically dealt with rotations around the head's vertical axis (yaw). Another common, although less studied, source of viewpoint variation in faces is rotation around the head's horizontal pitch axis (pitch). In the current study we used bo...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Favelle SK,Palmisano S,Maloney RT

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Alternating Brightness Star (ABS) is an illusion that provides insight into the relationship between brightness perception and corner angle. Recent psychophysical studies of this illusion have shown that corner salience varies parametrically with corner angle, with sharp angles leading to strong illusory percepts ...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Troncoso XG,Tse PU,Macknik SL,Caplovitz GP,Hsieh PJ,Schlegel AA,Otero-Millan J,Martinez-Conde S

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Unfamiliar odours are harder to discriminate than familiar odours. We explored the phenomenal basis of this difference. In experiments la and 1b, participants profiled odour quality for two sets of familiar and unfamiliar odours. In both cases unfamiliar odours were redolent of more odour qualities than familiar stimu...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Mingo SA,Stevenson RJ

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:How do humans combine the velocity information from two moving gratings (plaids) to detect pattern motion direction?-We are still unable to answer this question. The 'intersection of constraints' rule (IOC-Adelson and Movshon, 1982 Nature 300 523-525), and the 'vector average' rule (VA-Wilson et al, 1992 Visual Neuros...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Bowns L

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated the influence of viewing angle on performance in recognising the identity of one's own person and familiar individuals such as friends or colleagues from walking patterns. Viewpoint-dependent recognition performance was tested in two groups of twelve persons who knew each other very well. Participants'...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Jokisch D,Daum I,Troje NF

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Under suitable conditions, pupillary dilation is a reliable index of processing activity. Pupil size was tracked in male and female observers following the presentation of face stimuli for an age-judgment task. The eyes on the faces were either directed towards the observer or deviated to the side. Pupil dilation acco...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Porter G,Hood BM,Troscianko T

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three experiments were carried out to investigate whether amodal completion in pigeons can be facilitated by the use of colour photographs instead of highly artificial stimuli such as geometrical shapes. Ten pigeons were trained in a go/no-go procedure to discriminate between photographs of complete and of incomplete ...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Aust U,Huber L

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recognition of unfamiliar faces is susceptible to image differences caused by angular sizes subtended from the face to the camera. Research on perception of cubes suggests that apparent distortions of a shape due to large camera angle are correctable by placing the observer at the centre of projection, especially when...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Liu CH,Ward J

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Biological-motion perception can be regarded as a template-matching process. We are concerned with the visual cues in this template. Biological-motion perception is usually studied with point-light displays similar to the point-light displays invented by Johansson (1973 Perception and Psychophysics 14 201 - 211). Thes...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Kuhlmann S,Lappe M

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report two experiments in which we used animated averaged faces to examine infants' ability to perceive and discriminate facial motion. The faces were generated by using the motion recorded from the faces of volunteers while they spoke. We tested infants aged 4-8 months to assess their ability to discriminate facia...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Spencer J,O'Brien J,Johnston A,Hill H

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The appearance of objects depends on their material, shape, and on the illumination conditions. Conversely, object appearance provides us with cues about the illumination and the material. This so-called inverse problem is basically underdetermined and therefore we expect that material and illumination perception are ...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Pont SC,te Pas SF

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00