abstract：:The multifocal visual evoked potential (mfVEP) is largely generated in V1. To relate the electrical activity recorded from humans to recordings from single cells in nonhuman primate (V1) cortex, contrast-response functions for the human mfVEP were compared to predictions from a model of V1 activity (D. J. Heeger, A. C...

journal_title：Journal of vision

authors： Hood DC,Ghadiali Q,Zhang JC,Graham NV,Wolfson SS,Zhang X

更新日期：2006-04-24 00:00:00

abstract：:The dynamics of attentional deployment before saccade execution was studied with a dual-task paradigm. Observers made a horizontal saccade whose direction was indicated by a symbolic precue and had to discriminate the orientation of a Gabor patch displayed at different delays after the precue (but before saccade onset...

journal_title：Journal of vision

authors： Castet E,Jeanjean S,Montagnini A,Laugier D,Masson GS

更新日期：2006-03-03 00:00:00

abstract：:When the visual system is confronted with incompatible images in the same part of the visual field, the conscious percept switches back and forth between the rivaling stimuli. Such spontaneous flips provide important clues to the neuronal basis for visual awareness. The general idea is that two representations compete...

journal_title：Journal of vision

authors： Lankheet MJ

更新日期：2006-02-21 00:00:00

abstract：:One of the primary goals of motion analysis is to accurately track the movement of objects in the environment. We report on a novel illusion in which two objects moving with identical physical velocities have different perceived velocities, creating an apparent offset in their relative spatial positions. The stimulus ...

journal_title：Journal of vision

authors： Carlson TA,Schrater P,He S

更新日期：2006-02-13 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 studied mechanisms underlying the crowding effect in indirect form vision by measuring recognition contrast sensitivity of a character with flankers to the left and right. Attentional and featural contributions to the effect can be separated by a new paradigm that distinguishes pattern location errors from pattern ...

journal_title：Journal of vision

authors： Strasburger H

更新日期：2005-12-29 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：:In addition to its expected fast, additive L- and M-cone inputs (L + M), the luminance pathway has slow, spectrally opponent inputs. We have previously shown that on long-wavelength fields, the dominant slow signals change from L-M at moderate intensity levels to M-L signals at high. Here, we focus on the transition b...

journal_title：Journal of vision

authors： Stockman A,Plummer DJ

更新日期：2005-10-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous studies have painted a conflicting picture on the amount of visual information humans can extract from viewing a natural scene briefly. Although some studies suggest that a single glimpse is sufficient to put about five visual objects in memory, others find that not much is retained in visual memory even afte...

journal_title：Journal of vision

authors： Liu K,Jiang Y

更新日期：2005-09-16 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study we investigate temporal slowness as a learning principle for receptive fields using slow feature analysis, a new algorithm to determine functions that extract slowly varying signals from the input data. We find a good qualitative and quantitative match between the set of learned functions trained on imag...

journal_title：Journal of vision

authors： Berkes P,Wiskott L

更新日期：2005-07-20 00:00:00

abstract：:A series of seven experiments explored search for opaque targets among transparent distractors or vice versa. Static stimuli produced very inefficient search. With moving items, search for an opaque target among transparent distractors was quite efficient while search for transparent targets was less efficient (Experi...

journal_title：Journal of vision

authors： Wolfe JM,Birnkrant RS,Kunar MA,Horowitz TS

更新日期：2005-03-30 00:00:00

abstract：:The cerebral cortex has both anatomical and functional specialization, but the level of correspondence between the two in the human brain has remained largely elusive. Recent successes in high-resolution magnetic resonance imaging of myeloarchitecture patterns in the cortex suggest that it may now be possible to compa...

journal_title：Journal of vision

authors： Bridge H,Clare S,Jenkinson M,Jezzard P,Parker AJ,Matthews PM

更新日期：2005-02-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Many encoding mechanisms and processing strategies in the visual system appear to have evolved to better process the prevalent content in the visual world. Here we examine the relationship between the prevalence of natural scene content at different orientations and visual ability for detecting oriented natural scene ...

journal_title：Journal of vision

authors： Hansen BC,Essock EA

更新日期：2004-12-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Masking is said to occur when a mask stimulus interferes with the visibility of a target (test) stimulus. One widely held view of this process supposes interactions between mask and test mechanisms (cross-channel masking), and explicit models (e.g., J. M. Foley, 1994) have proposed that the interactions are inhibitory...

journal_title：Journal of vision

authors： Meese TS,Hess RF

更新日期：2004-10-18 00:00:00

abstract：:We examined whether observers veridically perceive the reflectances of real objects under natural viewing conditions. A new forced-choice paradigm was used to measure observers' abilities to identify (not match) the reflectance of randomly crumpled gray papers across two levels of illumination, and also to simultaneou...

journal_title：Journal of vision

authors： Robilotto R,Zaidi Q

更新日期：2004-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:It is debated whether different forms of bistable perception result from common or separate neural mechanisms. Binocular rivalry involves perceptual alternations between competing monocular images, whereas ambiguous figures such as the Necker cube lead to alternations between two possible pictorial interpretations. Pr...

journal_title：Journal of vision

authors： Meng M,Tong F

更新日期：2004-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous studies of the motion aperture problem have shown that the direction of grating motion can be biased by using binocular disparity to designate borders of the aperture as intrinsic (belonging to the grating) or extrinsic (resulting from occlusion of the grating). Observers report motion in the direction of the...

journal_title：Journal of vision

authors： Graf EW,Adams WJ,Lages M

更新日期：2004-05-19 00:00:00

abstract：:We present a three-mode expressive-feature model for recognizing gender (female, male) from point-light displays of walking people. Prototype female and male walkers are initially decomposed into a subspace of their three-mode components (posture, time, and gender). We then apply a weight factor to each point-light tr...

journal_title：Journal of vision

authors： Davis JW,Gao H

更新日期：2004-05-06 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：:Men with normal color vision vary widely in the ratio of long- (L) to middle-wavelength sensitive (M) cones. This variation provides opportunities to test models for the mechanism that produces L versus M cones during development. The L and M photopigment genes lie in a tandem array. Each gene has a promoter, and upst...

journal_title：Journal of vision

authors： McMahon C,Neitz J,Neitz M

更新日期：2004-03-25 00:00:00

abstract：:In complex scenes, the light absorbed and re-emitted by one surface can serve as a source of illumination for a second. We examine whether observers systematically discount this secondary illumination when estimating surface color. We asked six naïve observers to make achromatic settings of a small test patch adjacent...

journal_title：Journal of vision

authors： Doerschner K,Boyaci H,Maloney LT

更新日期：2004-02-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Experimental data on the accuracy and frequency of saccades are incorporated into a model of the visual world and eye movements to determine the spatial distribution of visual objects on the retina. Visual scenes are represented as sequences of discrete small objects whose positions are initially uniformly distributed...

journal_title：Journal of vision

authors： Lewis A,Garcia R,Zhaoping L

更新日期：2003-12-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Repetitive eye movements are known to produce motion aftereffect (MAE) when made to track a moving stimulus. Explanations typically centre on the retinal motion created in the peripheral visual field by the eye movement. This retinal motion is thought to induce perceived motion in the central test, either through the ...

journal_title：Journal of vision

authors： Freeman TC,Sumnall JH,Snowden RJ

更新日期：2003-12-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Pursuit can be guided by perceived rather than physical motion, but the temporal relationship between motion perception and pursuit is unknown. We used an apparent motion stimulus consisting of a horizontal row of evenly spaced Kanizsa illusory squares (1.44 deg2): the illusory contours appeared at the midpoints of th...

journal_title：Journal of vision

authors： Madelain L,Krauzlis RJ

更新日期：2003-11-18 00:00:00

abstract：:This work examines how context may influence the detection of changes in flickering scenes. Each scene contained two changes that were matched for low-level visual salience. One of the changes was of high interest to the meaning of the scene, and the other was of lower interest. High-interest changes were more readily...

journal_title：Journal of vision

authors： Kelley TA,Chun MM,Chua KP

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated the perception of three-dimensional plane orientation--focusing on the perception of tilt--from optic flow generated by the observer's active movement around a simulated stationary object, and compared the performance to that of an immobile observer receiving a replay of the same optic flow. We found t...

journal_title：Journal of vision

authors： van Boxtel JJ,Wexler M,Droulez J

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We used biased random-dot dynamic test stimuli to measure the strength of the motion aftereffect (MAE) to evaluate the usefulness of this technique as a measure of motion adaptation strength. The stimuli consisted of noise dots whose individual directions were random and of signal dots moving in a unique direction. Al...

journal_title：Journal of vision

authors： Castet E,Keeble DR,Verstraten FA

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Peripheral vision is characterized by reduced spatial resolution and inhibitory spatial interactions that extend over long distances. This work had three goals. (1) We considered whether the extensive crowding in peripheral vision is a consequence of a shift in the spatial scale of analysis. To test this, using a larg...

journal_title：Journal of vision

authors： Levi DM,Hariharan S,Klein SA

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:For the linear discrimination of two stimuli in white Gaussian noise in the presence of internal noise, a method is described for estimating linear classification weights from the sum of noise images segregated by stimulus and response. The recommended method for combining the two response images for the same stimulus...

journal_title：Journal of vision

authors： Ahumada AJ Jr

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Much research has been directed toward disentangling the "units" of attention: Is attention directed to locations in space, visual objects, or to individual features of an object? Moreover, there is considerable interest in whether attention increases the gain of neural mechanisms (signal enhancement) or acts by other...

journal_title：Journal of vision

authors： Pei F,Pettet MW,Norcia AM

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The statistical arrangement of oriented segments in natural scenes was recently proposed to be indicative of a cocircularity rule. In particular, the probability density function of the relative position of two oriented segments was found to be maximal along fixed angles on the plane, consistent with the two segments ...

journal_title：Journal of vision

authors： Chow CC,Jin DZ,Treves A

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Signal detection theory (SDT) asserts that sensory analysis is limited only by noise, and not by the number of stimuli analysed. To test this claim, we measured the accuracy of visual search for a single tilted element (the target) among 7 horizontal elements (distractors) using several different exposure durations, e...

journal_title：Journal of vision

authors： Solomon JA,Morgan MJ

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00