abstract：:Tempo is one factor that is frequently associated with the expressive nature of a piece of music. Composers often indicate the tempo of a piece of music through the use of numerical markings (beats min(-1)) and subjective terms (adagio, allegro). Three studies were conducted to assess whether listeners were able to ma...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Quinn S,Watt R

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Anchoring theory (Gilchrist et al, 1999 Psychological Review 106 795-834) predicts a wide range of lightness errors, including failures of constancy in multi-illumination scenes and a long list of well-known lightness illusions seen under homogeneous illumination. Lightness values are computed both locally and globall...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Zdravković S,Economou E,Gilchrist A

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although the Ebbinghaus illusion is commonly used as an example of a simple size-contrast effect, previous studies have emphasised its complexity by identifying many factors that potentially influence the magnitude of the illusion. Here, in a series of three experiments, we attempt to simplify this complexity. In each...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Roberts B,Harris MG,Yates TA

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vasarely's 'nested-squares' illusion shows that 90 degrees corners can be more salient perceptually than straight edges. On the basis of this illusion we have developed a novel visual illusion, the 'Alternating Brightness Star', which shows that sharp corners are more salient than shallow corners (an effect we call 'c...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Troncoso XG,Macknik SL,Martinez-Conde S

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:New geometric analyses are presented of three impressive examples of the effects of location of the vantage point on virtual 3-D spaces conveyed by linear-perspective images. In the 'egocentric-road' effect, the perceived direction of the depicted road is always pointed towards the observer, for any position of the va...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Todorović D

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Perception of intentions and dispositions of others is an essential ingredient of adaptive daily-life social behaviour. Dynamics of moving images leads to veridical perception of social attributes. Anecdotal observations in art, science, and popular culture indicate that dynamic imbalance can be revealed in static ima...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Pavlova M,Sokolov A,Sokolov A

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Some experimental and theoretical approaches to surface-colour perception depend on approximating surface reflectance spectra by low-dimensional models. In the psychophysical experiment reported here, observers had to discriminate between patterns of Munsell surfaces and their spectral approximations under either the ...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Oxtoby EK,Foster DH

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:How is chromatic contrast combined binocularly? One index of binocularity is the binocular contrast summation ratio (BCSR), which is the improvement in contrast sensitivity with binocular rather than monocular presentation. Simmons and Kingdom (1998, Vision Research 38 1063-1071) noted that BCSRs with some red-green i...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Simmons DR

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Averaged face composites, which represent the central tendency of a familiar population of faces, are attractive. If this prototypicality contributes to their appeal, then averaged composites should be more attractive when their component faces come from a familiar, own-race population than when they come from a less ...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Rhodes G,Lee K,Palermo R,Weiss M,Yoshikawa S,Clissa P,Williams T,Peters M,Winkler C,Jeffery L

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The impact that the analysis of sound waves has made on theories of light is well known, and is touched upon here. However, the acoustic figures described initially by Robert Hooke in 1665 and in more detail by Ernst Chladni in 1787 (often referred to as Chladni figures) were instrumental in vision in two specific res...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Wade NJ

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:By using techniques for precision ophthalmic tinting, individuals who report perceptual distortion of text can often find a colour of illumination that eliminates the distortions and increases reading speed. Most individuals choose green or blue hues, but there is considerable variability. We investigated how specific...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Wilkins AJ,Sihra N,Myers A

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Individual speechreading abilities have been linked with a range of cognitive and language-processing factors. The role of specifically visual abilities in relation to the processing of visible speech is less studied. Here we report that the detection of coherent visible motion in random-dot kinematogram displays is r...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Mohammed T,Campbell R,MacSweeney M,Milne E,Hansen P,Coleman M

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ability of observers to perceive distances and spatial relationships in outdoor environments was investigated in two experiments. In experiment 1, the observers adjusted triangular configurations to appear equilateral, while in experiment 2, they adjusted the depth of triangles to match their base width. The resul...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Norman JF,Crabtree CE,Clayton AM,Norman HF

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated whether the same principles that influence grouping in static displays also influence grouping in apparent motion. Using the Ternus display, we found that the proportion of group motion reports was influenced by changes in contrast configuration. Subjects made judgments of completion of these same conf...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Ma-Wyatt A,Clifford CW,Wenderoth P

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In three experiments, we explored how pigeons use edges, corresponding to orientation and depth discontinuities, in visual recognition tasks. In experiment 1, we compared the pigeon's ability to recognize line drawings of four different geons when trained with shaded images. The birds were trained with either a single...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Peissig JJ,Young ME,Wasserman EA,Biederman I

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Phenomena associated with 'central visual persistences' (CPs) are new to both medical and psychological literature. Five subjects have reported similar CPs: positive afterimages following brief fixation of high-contrast objects or drawings and eye closure. CPs duplicate shapes and colors of single objects, lasting for...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Ingle D

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We obtained data on within-channel and between-channel auditory temporal gap-detection acuity in the normal population. Ninety-five normal listeners were tested for gap-detection thresholds, for conditions in which the gap was bounded by spectrally identical, and by spectrally different, acoustic markers. Separate thr...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Phillips DP,Smith JC

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Is the extraction of a visually derived semantic code from faces (ethnicity) affected by face identity (familiarity) or not? The traditional view considers that this operation is made independently of face identity, and in parallel with the recognition of identity. However, some recent studies cast doubt on this paral...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Bruyer R,Leclere S,Quinet P

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Because of the massive amount of incoming visual information, perception is fundamentally selective. We are aware of only a small subset of our visual input at any given moment, and a great deal of activity can occur right in front of our eyes without reaching awareness. While previous work has shown that even salient...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Mitroff SR,Scholl BJ

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Context sensitivity of size perception has previously been used to study individual differences related to the distinction between local, analytic, or field-independent and global, holistic, or field-dependent perceptual styles. For example, it has been used in several recent studies of autistic spectrum disorders, wh...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Phillips WA,Chapman KL,Berry PD

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:For good ecological reasons humans assume that the illumination in pictures comes from overhead rather than from below. Recent work has also raised the possibility that the preferred angle of illumination is between 20 degrees and 30 degrees to the left of vertical, although the ecological basis for that is obscure. W...

journal_title：Perception

authors： McManus IC,Buckman J,Woolley E

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The perceptually bistable character of point-light walkers has been examined in three experiments. A point-light figure without explicit depth cues constitutes a perfectly ambiguous stimulus: from all viewpoints, multiple interpretations are possible concerning the depth orientation of the figure. In the first experim...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Vanrie J,Dekeyser M,Verfaillie K

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have revealed a new role for colour vision in visual scene analysis: colour vision facilitates shadow identification. Shadows are important features of the visual scene, providing information about the shape, depth, and movement of objects. To be useful for perception, however, shadows must be distinguished from ot...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Kingdom FA,Beauce C,Hunter L

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Junctions, formed at the intersection of image contours, are thought to play an important and early role in vision. The interest in junctions can be attributed in part to the notion that they are local image features that are easy to detect but that nonetheless provide valuable information about important events in th...

journal_title：Perception

authors： McDermott J

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 12-year-old child (DI) who was completely blind from birth, made a series of tactual (raised-lines) drawings of cars. Among them, there was the depiction of a 'fast car at night' in which DI drew beams of light projecting out of the car. We analyse this drawing, and the preceding ones. We argue that the way in which...

journal_title：Perception

authors： D'Angiulli A,Maggi S

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The AMBEGUJAS phenomenon is a reversible flat figure that is spontaneously shifting between two apparent 3-D shapes-'tile' and 'roof'. 2-D perceptions have very rarely been reported. Tied to the shifts between the tile and roof shapes are remarkable changes of perceived colour. In our example, the tile appears to have...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Bergström SS

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In four experiments we examined the nature of the information used in judging whether events would or would not give rise to a collision in the near future. Observers were tested in situations depicting approaches between two objects (lateral approaches) and approaches between an object and the point of observation (h...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Bootsma RJ,Craig CM

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:'Preattentive' vision is typically considered to include several low-level processes, including the perception of depth from binocular disparity and motion parallax. However, doubt was cast on this model when it was shown that a secondary attentional task can modulate the motion aftereffect (Chaudhuri, 1990 Nature 344...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Rose D,Bradshaw MF,Hibbard PB

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:By varying target size, speed, and extent of visible motion we examined the timing accuracy in motion extrapolation. Small or large targets (0.2 or 0.8 deg) moved at either 2.5, 5, or 10 deg s(-1) across a horizontal path (2.5 or 10 deg) and then vanished behind an occluder. Observers responded when they judged that t...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Sokolov A,Pavlova M

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is well established that motion aftereffects (MAEs) can show interocular transfer (IOT); that is, motion adaptation in one eye can give a MAE in the other eye. Different quantification methods and different test stimuli have been shown to give different IOT magnitudes, varying from no to almost full IOT. In this st...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Tao R,Lankheet MJ,van de Grind WA,van Wezel RJ

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Since most natural surfaces are complex and vary in amplitude and spatial frequency, it might be interesting to consider gratings not in the spatial domain, but in the spatial-frequency domain. Detection thresholds for amplitude modulation (AM) and frequency modulation (FM) in sinusoidal gratings were measured for sev...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Nefs HT,Kappers AM,Koenderink JJ

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A fundamental challenge in face recognition lies in determining which facial characteristics are important in the identification of faces. Several studies have indicated the significance of certain facial features in this regard, particularly internal ones such as the eyes and mouth. Surprisingly, however, one rather ...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Sadr J,Jarudi I,Sinha P

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated audio-visual (AV) perceptual integration by examining the effect of seeing the speaker's synchronised moving face on masked-speech detection ability. Signal amplification and higher-level cognitive accounts of an AV advantage were contrasted, the latter by varying whether participants knew the language...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Kim J,Davis C

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The visual system is known to contain hard-wired mechanisms that compare the values of a given stimulus attribute at adjacent positions in the visual field; but how are comparisons performed when the stimuli are not adjacent? We ask empirically how well a human observer can compare two stimuli that are separated in th...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Danilova MV,Mollon JD

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Outline drawings in a raised form were made by a blind woman, Tracy, who has been blind from very early in life. Highly practiced in drawing, she reports she is largely self-taught. To invoke matters of projection, she was asked to represent an object with faces slanting away from the observer, a fixed array from diff...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Kennedy JM,Igor J

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Children do not show the same recognition disadvantage for inverted faces as adults do. It has been suggested that this is because the configural encoding (which is disrupted by inversion) becomes more useful or available as we get older. The distinction between configural processing and featural processing, however, ...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Lewis MB

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Display inversion severely impedes veridical perception of point-light biological motion (Pavlova and Sokolov, 2000 Perception & Psychophysics 62 889-899; Sumi, 1984 Perception 13 283-286). Here, by using a spontaneous-recognition paradigm, we ask whether prior information about display orientation improves biological...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Pavlova M,Sokolov A

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Within (and between) cultures, people tend to agree on which parts of colour space are easiest to name and what the names for these regions are. Therefore it is likely that the manipulation of ease of naming (nameability) of colours should change performance in tasks where categorisation by colour name is important. M...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Guest S,Van Laar D

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gaps in past literature have raised questions regarding the kinds of stimuli that can lead to three-dimensional (3-D) rotation aftereffects. Further, the characteristics of the buildup and decay of such aftereffects are not clear. In the present experiments, rotation aftereffects were generated by projections of cube-...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Petersik JT

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Abstract. Observers can recover motion with respect to the head during an eye movement by comparing signals encoding retinal motion and the velocity of pursuit. Evidently there is a mismatch between these signals because perceived head-centred motion is not always veridical. One example is the Filehne illusion, in whi...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Freeman TC,Sumnall JH

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00