abstract：:In four studies children were asked to read aloud a passage of randomly ordered common words with and without a coloured sheet of plastic (overlay) placed upon the page. The children's rate of reading increased with the overlay, for some children more than for others. The children were also asked to undertake a test o...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Wilkins A,Lewis E

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Effects of sound and posture cues on veering from the straight-ahead were tested with young blind children in an unfamiliar space that lacked orienting cues. In a pre-test with a previously heard target sound, all subjects walked straight to the target. A recording device, which sampled the locomotor trajectories auto...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Millar S

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of a foreground stimulus on vection (illusory perception of self-motion induced by a moving background stimulus) were examined in two experiments. The experiments reveal that the presentation of a foreground pattern with a moving background stimulus may affect vection. The foreground stimulus facilitated v...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Nakamura S,Shimojo S

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Through about 130 years of the history of experimental aesthetics, preferences of figures have been summarized in representative values such as the golden ratio. Researches especially in the golden-section hypothesis overshadowed the basic and profound problem of how people's individual preference would be decided. In...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Ohta H

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A theoretical analysis of the recovery of shape from optic flow highlights the importance of the deformation components; however, pure deforming stimuli elicit few responses from flow-sensitive neurons in the medial superior temporal (MST) area of the cerebral cortex. This finding has prompted the conclusion that MST ...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Ivins J,Porrill J,Frisby J,Orban G

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A stereoscopic illusion is produced by manipulating the binocular disparity of the irises in stereo pairs of human faces. These stimuli elicit unnatural percepts of the irises popping out of the face or sinking in inside the head. ...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Papathomas TV,Morikawa K

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim in the experiments was to examine whether the detection of structure-from-motion (SFM) in noise was facilitated when target and noise were segregated by colour and/or luminance polarity. The SFM target was a rotating 'V-shape' structure simulated with limited-lifetime Gaussian micropatterns and embedded in ran...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Li HC,Kingdom FA

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a series of three experiments, observers judged the perceived relative depths of small probe dots, which could be presented in empty space or attached to a smoothly curved surface. Discriminations of ordinal depth were found to be more precise than discriminations of depth intervals. The amount of separation in the...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Norman JF,Todd JT

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The nature of the psychological processes that underlie the Gestalt principles of grouping by proximity and grouping by similarity is examined. Similarity was defined relative to the principles of grouping by common colour and grouping by common shape. Subjects were presented with displays comprising a row of seven co...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Quinlan PT,Wilton RN

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A veridical estimate of viewing distance is required in order to determine the metric structure of objects from binocular stereopsis. One example of a judgment of metric structure, which we used in our experiment, is the apparently circular cylinder task (E B Johnston, 1991 Vision Research 31 1351-1360). Most studies ...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Glennerster A,Rogers BJ,Bradshaw MF

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Theories purporting to explain the cognitive processes underlying imitation and its taxonomic distribution have proliferated in recent years but a common assumption is that imitators must adopt a model's mental or visual perspective. Data on thirty-six adult subjects were used to test the hypothesis that imitative lea...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Sambrook TD

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Naito and Cole [1994, in Contributions to Mathematical Psychology: Psychometrics and Methodology Eds G H Fischer and D Laming (New York: Springer)] provide a configuration which they describe as the Gravity Lens illusion. In this configuration, four small dots are presented in proximity to four large disks, and one is...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Greene E

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To what extent can individuals accurately estimate the angle between two surfaces through touch alone, and how does tactile judgment compare to visual judgment? Subjects' ability to estimate angle size for a variety of haptic and visual stimuli was examined in a series of nine experiments. Triangular wooden blocks and...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Lakatos S,Marks LE

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two experiments are reported in which the decline or decrement in the magnitude of the Brentano Müller-Lyer illusion was measured. Observers made a pre-test judgment and, after a variable intervening time period, a post-test judgment of illusion magnitude. In experiment 1, the intervening time periods were 1, 2, and 3...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Predebon J

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Depth interactions between a frontal test surface and an adjacent induction surface were measured as a function of the type of disparity in the induction surface and of the vertical/horizontal orientation of the boundary between the surfaces. The types of disparity were 4 degrees horizontal-shear disparity, 4 degrees ...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Pierce BJ,Howard IP,Feresin C

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of age-induced changes on face recognition were investigated as a means of exploring the role of age in the encoding of new facial memories. The ability of participants to recognise each of six previously learnt faces was tested with versions which were either identical to the learnt faces, the same age (bu...

journal_title：Perception

authors： George PA,Hole GJ

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In three-dimensional configurations, and two-dimensional pictures of such configurations, simultaneous contrast induction from proximate backgrounds affects perceived brightness, color, and internal contrast to a greater extent than induction from coplanar or occluding surrounds or from more distant backgrounds. In th...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Zaidi Q,Spehar B,Shy M

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Children aged 3-4 years were tested for their ability to decide which of two photographs or drawings of a face depicted the act of fixating on a target object; in each control photograph or drawing the same face and object were present without fixation. Performance was above chance on both stimulus types, but low enou...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Anderson JR,Doherty MJ

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although depth is experienced with targets at large disparities when they are seen as double or diplopic, whether that depth is as direct as with fused targets has been a matter of considerable uncertainty. Researchers have often claimed that judgments of the depth of diplopic targets during simple near/far tasks rely...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Ziegler LR,Hess RF

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A study of the effect of the size of a moving target and the extent of its visible motion on motion extrapolation is reported. Targets (a horizontal pair of dots separated by either 0.2 or 0.8 deg) moved across a 10 deg rectilinear path and were then occluded. Observers pressed a key when they thought the leading dot ...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Sokolov AN,Ehrenstein WH,Pavlova MA,Cavonius CR

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The global effect in eye orienting occurs when saccades land at the 'centre of gravity' of a target stimulus configuration. Short-latency saccades are particularly prone to this effect whereas longer-latency saccades may show more influence of fine detail. Alternative explanations of these effects are considered and d...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Findlay JM,Gilchrist ID

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thresholds were measured for discriminating changes in the slopes of the amplitude spectra of stimuli derived from photographs of natural scenes and from random-luminance patterns. The variety and magnitudes of the thresholds could be explained by a model based on the discrimination of the changes in band-limited loca...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Tolhurst DJ,Tadmor Y

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Stereoscopic processing of horizontal and vertical disparities was assessed by measuring how the stereoscopic appearance of test dots near the fixation point was influenced by inducing stimuli in the near periphery. The inducing stimuli were differentially magnified in the two eyes and varied in horizontal eccentricit...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Pettet MW

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Can visual similarity between shapes facilitate orientation priming? Five experiments are reported in which this possibility was explored by using novel two-dimensional shapes that formed homogeneous stimulus classes. After training on individual shapes in a canonical view, the recognition of these shapes was tested i...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Gauthier I,Tarr MJ

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The magnitude of the barber-pole illusion is measured as a function of the contrast, orientation, and phase difference between the moving 'barber-pole' grating and a moving 'surround' grating that forms the aperture surface. It is found that as the difference between the barber-pole grating and the surround grating in...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Mussap AJ,Te Grotenhuis K

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A study is reported of phenomena involved in perceptually unified organisation of a stationary chromatic pattern and a moving black outline or dot pattern. When the corners of the outline pattern were temporally oscillated on a stationary chromatic square, the chromatic border appeared to follow the moving outline, as...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Goda N,Ejima Y

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Can people with different forms of low vision use motion parallax to improve depth judgments? We used a staircase method to compare depth thresholds using motion parallax and static viewing. We tested eighteen normal-vision subjects with a range of simulated deficits in acuity, contrast sensitivity, and simulated peri...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Jobling JT,Mansfield JS,Legge GE,Menge MR

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human observers can correctly attribute changes in the appearance of a scene either to changes in the incident light or to changes in the spectral-reflectance properties of the scene. This ability was assessed as a function of the time course of illuminant and spectral-reflectance changes. Observers were presented wit...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Linnell KJ,Foster DH

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The influence of modality-encoding bias on the relative importance ('cognitive salience') of object shape, size, and material, with the last determined by weight and thermal variations, was examined. Experiment 1 confirmed that for these stimulus objects all five properties were very accessible haptically, as measured...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Lederman SJ,Summers C,Klatzky RL

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is well-known that people recognize faces of their own race more accurately than faces of other races-a phenomenon often referred to as the 'other-race effect'. Using brief presentations of faces, we show a similar effect for the task of discriminating the sex of a face. Specifically, Caucasian observers discrimina...

journal_title：Perception

authors： O'Toole AJ,Peterson J,Deffenbacher KA

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mach bands are illusory bright and dark bands seen where a luminance plateau meets a ramp, as in half shadows or penumbras. It has previously been shown that Mach bands are attenuated by placing stimuli, such as bars, nearby. It was shown in an experiment in which Mach-band attenuation for bar and Craik-O'Brien stimul...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Pessoa L

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The generic-view principle (GVP) states that given a 2-D image the visual system interprets it as a generic view of a 3-D scene when possible. The GVP was applied to 3-D-motion perception to show how the visual system decomposes retinal image motion into three components of 3-D motion: stretch/shrinkage, rotation, and...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Kitazaki M,Shimojo S

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:One of the most common obstacles to object perception is the fact that objects often occlude parts of themselves and parts of other objects. Perceptual completion has been studied extensively in humans, and researchers have shown that humans do complete partly occluded objects. In an effort to understand more about th...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Sekuler AB,Lee JA,Shettleworth SJ

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We show a cylindrical projection of the human head. This projection is ambiguous with respect to head pose. Viewing such a projection produces perceptual competition for a few discrete views. ...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Kersten D,Troje NF,Bülthoff HH

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A history of the observational era of vision is presented through selected descriptions of phenomena by natural philosophers from Aristotle to Wheatstone. The descriptions are listed under the headings of optics, colour, subjective visual phenomena, motion perception, eye movements, binocular vision, and space percept...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Wade NJ

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The method of constant stimuli was used to examine the accuracy with which two-dimensional spatial information can be represented in mental images. In experiment 1, subjects had to decide which of two successively presented two-dot separations was wider. Over the range of interstimulus intervals employed (0 to 30s), t...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Hole GJ

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The use of nonspatial attentional mechanisms in search tasks was investigated by presenting observers with stimuli that contained 4-12 elements located on a circle around the fixation point. The elements differed in one of six nonspatial 'dimensions', namely orientation, contrast, scale, number of cycles, 'shape', and...

journal_title：Perception

authors： de Haan E,Lutz C,Noest AJ

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Japanese male and female undergraduate students judged the gender of a variety of facial images. These images were combinations of the following facial parts: eyebrows, eyes, nose, mouth, and the face outline (cheek and chin). These parts were extracted from averaged facial images of Japanese males and females aged 18...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Yamaguchi MK,Hirukawa T,Kanazawa S

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Backward masking and its possible connection with the perception of odour mixtures has been investigated. Temporal competition between odorants in a binary mixture was tested by artificially creating a delay between one odour (the target) and a second, stronger, odour (the mask) during a single natural sniff. To test ...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Rouby C,Holley A

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:One of the open questions within the study of texture discrimination is whether the underlying neural mechanisms are located within the two monocular pathways, or whether they are located at more central areas that process binocular information. This question is considered here in psychophysical experiments of texture...

journal_title：Perception

authors： Pérez-Martínez D

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00