abstract：:Like other perceptual attributes, numerosity is susceptible to adaptation. Nevertheless, it has never been fully investigated whether adaptation to numerosity is fully perceptual in nature or if it stems from the mixed influence of perception and attention. In the present work, we addressed this point throughout three...

journal_title：Journal of vision

authors： Grasso PA,Anobile G,Arrighi R

更新日期：2021-01-04 00:00:00

abstract：:A range of visual illusions, including the much-studied flash-lag effect, demonstrate that neural signals coding for motion and position interact in the visual system. One interpretation of these illusions is that they are the consequence of motion extrapolation mechanisms in the early visual system. Here, we study th...

journal_title：Journal of vision

authors： Johnson P,Davies S,Hogendoorn H

更新日期：2020-12-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Interpreting colormap visualizations requires determining how dimensions of color in visualizations map onto quantities in data. People have color-based biases that influence their interpretations of colormaps, such as a dark-is-more bias-darker colors map to larger quantities. Previous studies of color-based biases f...

journal_title：Journal of vision

authors： Sibrel SC,Rathore R,Lessard L,Schloss KB

更新日期：2020-11-02 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigate how the population nonlinearities resulting from lateral inhibition and thresholding in sparse coding networks influence neural response selectivity and robustness. We show that when compared to pointwise nonlinear models, such population nonlinearities improve the selectivity to a preferred stimulus an...

journal_title：Journal of vision

authors： Paiton DM,Frye CG,Lundquist SY,Bowen JD,Zarcone R,Olshausen BA

更新日期：2020-11-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Visual short-term memory (VSTM) load leads to impaired perception during maintenance. Here, we fitted the contrast response function to psychometric orientation discrimination data while also varying attention demand during maintenance to investigate: (1) whether VSTM load effects on perception are mediated by a modul...

journal_title：Journal of vision

authors： Konstantinou N,Lavie N

更新日期：2020-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The brain is a slave to sense; we see and hear things that are not there and engage in ongoing correction of these illusory experiences, commonly termed pareidolia. The current study investigates whether the predisposition to see meaning in noise is lateralized to one hemisphere or the other and how this predispositio...

journal_title：Journal of vision

authors： Cropper SJ,McCauley A,Gwinn OS,Bartlett M,Nicholls MER

更新日期：2020-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Perceiving object motion during self-movement is an essential ability of humans. Previous studies have reported that the visual system can use both visual information (such as optic flow) and non-visual information (such as vestibular, somatosensory, and proprioceptive information) to identify and globally subtract th...

journal_title：Journal of vision

authors： Xie M,Niehorster DC,Lappe M,Li L

更新日期：2020-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Loss of central vision can be partially compensated by increased use of peripheral vision. For example, patients experiencing central vision loss due to disease (macular degeneration) or healthy participants trained with simulated central vision loss, tend to develop eccentric fixation spots for reading or other visua...

journal_title：Journal of vision

authors： Maniglia M,Visscher KM,Seitz AR

更新日期：2020-09-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Pupil size changes with light. For this reason, researchers studying the effect of attention, contextual processing, and arousal on the pupillary response have matched the mean luminance of their stimuli across conditions to eliminate the contribution of differences in light levels. Here, we argue that the match of me...

journal_title：Journal of vision

authors： Gao J,Ko A,Yabe Y,Goodale MA,Chen J

更新日期：2020-08-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Knowledge of target features can guide attention in many conjunction searches in a top-down manner. For example, in search of a red vertical line among blue vertical and red horizontal lines, observers can guide attention toward all red items and all vertical items. In typical conjunction searches, distractors often f...

journal_title：Journal of vision

authors： Utochkin IS,Khvostov VA,Wolfe JM

更新日期：2020-08-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs) trained on visual objects have shown intriguing ability to predict some response properties of visual cortical neurons. However, the factors (e.g., if the model is trained or not, receptive field size) and computations (e.g., convolution, rectification, pooling, normalization)...

journal_title：Journal of vision

authors： Laskar MNU,Sanchez Giraldo LG,Schwartz O

更新日期：2020-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Early visual processing is surprisingly flexible even in the adult brain. This flexibility involves both long-term structural plasticity and online adaptations conveyed by top-down feedback. Although this view is supported by rich evidence from both human behavioral studies and invasive electrophysiology in nonhuman m...

journal_title：Journal of vision

authors： Herde L,Uhl J,Rauss K

更新日期：2020-06-03 00:00:00

abstract：:The human fovea lies at the center of the retina and supports high-acuity vision. In normal visual system development, the highest acuity is correlated with both a high density of cone photoreceptors in the fovea and a magnified retinotopic representation of the fovea in the visual cortex. Both cone density and the co...

journal_title：Journal of vision

authors： Woertz EN,Wilk MA,Duwell EJ,Mathis JR,Carroll J,DeYoe EA

更新日期：2020-06-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Crowding is the deterioration of target identification in the presence of neighboring objects. Recent studies using appearance-based methods showed that the perceived number of target elements is often diminished in crowding. Here we introduce a related type of diminishment in repeating patterns (sets of parallel line...

journal_title：Journal of vision

authors： Yildirim FZ,Coates DR,Sayim B

更新日期：2020-04-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Heterochromatic flicker photometry (HFP), minimum motion (MM), and minimally distinct border (MDB) settings have often been used to determine equiluminance, a relative intensity setting for two chromaticities that, in theory, eliminates the responses of a luminance or achromatic psychophysical mechanism. These setting...

journal_title：Journal of vision

authors： He J,Taveras Cruz Y,Eskew RT Jr

更新日期：2020-04-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Human adults with normal vision are capable of improving performance on visual tasks through repeated practice. Previous work has shown that enhancing synaptic levels of acetylcholine (ACh) in healthy human adults with donepezil (trade name: Aricept) can increase the magnitude and specificity of perceptual learning (P...

journal_title：Journal of vision

authors： Levi DM,Li RW,Silver MA,Chung STL

更新日期：2020-04-09 00:00:00

abstract：:This study focused on the potential role of incidental, auditory perceptual learning in among children learning new words. To this end, we examined how irrelevant auditory similarities across words, that provide no cues regarding their visual or conceptual attributes, influence pseudo-word learning in a name/picture m...

journal_title：Journal of vision

authors： Banai K,Nir B,Moav-Scheff R,Bar-Ziv N

更新日期：2020-03-17 00:00:00

abstract：:While visual size preferences regarding still objects have been investigated and linked to the "canonical size" effect-where preferred on-screen size was significantly related to objects' real-world size-the visual size preferences related to moving images of natural scenes has not been researched. In this study, we m...

journal_title：Journal of vision

authors： Harasawa M,Sawahata Y,Komine K,Shioiri S

更新日期：2020-03-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Binocular disparity signals allow for the estimation of three-dimensional shape, even in the absence of monocular depth cues. The perception of such disparity-defined form depends, however, on the linkage of multiple disparity measurements over space. Performance limitations in cyclopean tasks thus inform us about err...

journal_title：Journal of vision

authors： Goutcher R,Hibbard PB

更新日期：2020-02-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Collinear facilitation is a visual phenomenon by which the contrast detection threshold of a central target is reduced (facilitation) when placed equidistant between two high-contrast flankers. The neural mechanisms underpinning this phenomenon originate from feed-forward lateral facilitation between cell layers in V1...

journal_title：Journal of vision

authors： Chan YM,Brooks CJ,McKendrick AM

更新日期：2019-12-02 00:00:00

abstract：:The visually guided interception of a moving target is a fundamental visuomotor task that humans can do with ease. But how humans carry out this task is still unclear despite numerous empirical investigations. Measurements of angular variables during human interception have suggested three possible strategies: the pur...

journal_title：Journal of vision

authors： Zhao H,Straub D,Rothkopf CA

更新日期：2019-12-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Human observers are exquisitely sensitive to curvature deformations along a circular closed contour (Wilkinson, Wilson, & Habak, 1998; Hess, Wang, & Dakin, 1999; Loffler, Wilson, & Wilkinson, 2003). Such remarkable sensitivity has been attributed to the curvature encoding scheme used by V4 neurons, which typically are...

journal_title：Journal of vision

authors： Slugocki M,Sekuler AB,Bennett PJ

更新日期：2019-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Macular degeneration and related visual disorders greatly limit foveal function, resulting in reliance on the peripheral retina for tasks requiring fine spatial vision. Here we investigate stimulus manipulations intended to maximize peripheral acuity for dynamic targets. Acuity was measured using a single interval ori...

journal_title：Journal of vision

authors： Patrick JA,Roach NW,McGraw PV

更新日期：2019-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The study of fixational eye motion has implications for the neural and computational underpinnings of vision. One component of fixational eye motion is tremor, a high-frequency oscillatory jitter reported to be anywhere from ∼11-60 arcseconds in amplitude. In order to isolate the effects of tremor on the retinal image...

journal_title：Journal of vision

authors： Bowers NR,Boehm AE,Roorda A

更新日期：2019-09-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Are people biologically prepared for the rapid detection of threat posed by an angry facial expression, even when it is conveyed in the form of a schematic line drawing? Based on visual search times, the current literature would suggest that the answer is yes. But are there low-level explanations for this effect? Here...

journal_title：Journal of vision

authors： Kennett MJ,Wallis G

更新日期：2019-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:People are able to perceive the 3D shape of illuminated surfaces using image shading cues. Theories about how we accomplish this often assume that the human visual system estimates a single lighting direction and interprets shading cues in accord with that estimate. In natural scenes, however, lighting can be much mor...

journal_title：Journal of vision

authors： Wilder JD,Adams WJ,Murray RF

更新日期：2019-06-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Scene viewing is used to study attentional selection in complex but still controlled environments. One of the main observations on eye movements during scene viewing is the inhomogeneous distribution of fixation locations: While some parts of an image are fixated by almost all observers and are inspected repeatedly by...

journal_title：Journal of vision

authors： Trukenbrod HA,Barthelmé S,Wichmann FA,Engbert R

更新日期：2019-06-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Humans can estimate and encode numerosity over a large range, from very few items to several hundreds. Two distinct mechanisms have been proposed: subitizing, for numbers up to four and estimation for larger numerosities. We have recently extended this idea by suggesting that for very densely packed arrays, when items...

journal_title：Journal of vision

authors： Pomè A,Anobile G,Cicchini GM,Burr DC

更新日期：2019-06-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Our ability to process numerical and temporal information is an evolutionary skill thought to originate from a common magnitude system. In line with a common magnitude system, we have previously shown that adaptation to duration alters numerosity perception. Here, we investigate two hypotheses on how duration influenc...

journal_title：Journal of vision

authors： Tsouli A,van der Smagt MJ,Dumoulin SO,Pas SFT

更新日期：2019-06-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Somatosensory perception is hampered on the moving limb during a goal-directed movement. This somatosensory suppression is mostly attributed to a forward model that predicts future states of the system based on the established motor command. Here, we examined whether and how this suppression is modulated by the predic...

journal_title：Journal of vision

authors： Voudouris D,Broda MD,Fiehler K

更新日期：2019-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Visual stimuli may produce strong and reliable effects on subsequent actions irrespective of their visibility. This dissociation between action priming and conscious perception of the stimuli suggests two ways of processing of visual stimuli. One way of processing leads to the emergence of conscious visual perception,...

journal_title：Journal of vision

authors： Becker N,Mattler U

更新日期：2019-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chromatic vision starts at the retinal photoreceptors but photoreceptors are themselves color-blind, responding only to their effective quantal catch and not to the wavelength of the caught photon per se. Mitchell and Rushton (1971) termed this phenomenon the univariance concept, and it is widely used in designing sil...

journal_title：Journal of vision

authors： Kamar S,Howlett MHC,Kamermans M

更新日期：2019-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Apparent duration can be manipulated in a local region of visual field by long-term adaptation to motion or flicker (Johnston, Arnold, & Nishida, 2006). These effects show narrow spatial tuning (Ayhan, Bruno, Nishida, & Johnston, 2009), as well as retinotopic position dependency (Bruno, Ayhan, & Johnston, 2010), suppo...

journal_title：Journal of vision

authors： Gulhan D,Ayhan I

更新日期：2019-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We present a computational-observer model of the human spatial contrast-sensitivity function based on the Image Systems Engineering Toolbox for Biology (ISETBio) simulation framework. We demonstrate that ISETBio-derived contrast-sensitivity functions agree well with ones derived using traditional ideal-observer approa...

journal_title：Journal of vision

authors： Cottaris NP,Jiang H,Ding X,Wandell BA,Brainard DH

更新日期：2019-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:When haptically exploring softness, humans use higher peak forces when indenting harder versus softer objects. Here, we investigated the influence of different channels and types of prior knowledge on initial peak forces. Participants explored two stimuli (hard vs. soft) and judged which was softer. In Experiment 1 pa...

journal_title：Journal of vision

authors： Zoeller AC,Lezkan A,Paulun VC,Fleming RW,Drewing K

更新日期：2019-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is known that moving visual stimuli are perceived to last longer than stationary stimuli with the same physical duration (Kanai, Paffen, Hogendoorn, & Verstraten, 2006), and that motor actions (Tomassini & Morrone, 2016) and eye movements (Morrone, Ross, & Burr, 2005) can alter perceived duration. In the present wo...

journal_title：Journal of vision

authors： Verde LL,Alais D,Burr DC,Morrone MC,MacDougall H,Verstraten FAJ

更新日期：2019-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human brains are finite, and thus have bounded capacity. An efficient strategy for a capacity-limited agent is to continuously adapt by dynamically reallocating capacity in a task-dependent manner. Here we study this strategy in the context of visual working memory (VWM). People use their VWM stores to remember visual...

journal_title：Journal of vision

authors： Bates CJ,Lerch RA,Sims CR,Jacobs RA

更新日期：2019-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Visual short-term memory (VSTM) has been described as being limited by the number of discrete visual objects, the aggregate quantity of information across multiple visual objects, or some combination of the two. Many recent studies examining these capacity limitations have shown that increasing the number of items in ...

journal_title：Journal of vision

authors： Lilburn SD,Smith PL,Sewell DK

更新日期：2019-01-02 00:00:00

abstract：:In 1986, Paul Whittle investigated the ability to discriminate between the luminance of two small patches viewed upon a uniform background. In 1992, Paul Whittle asked subjects to manipulate the luminance of a number of patches on a uniform background until their brightness appeared to vary from black to white with ev...

journal_title：Journal of vision

authors： Kane D,Bertalmío M

更新日期：2019-01-02 00:00:00

abstract：:To estimate object speed with respect to the self, retinal signals must be summed with extraretinal signals that encode the speed of eye and head movement. Prior work has shown that differences in perceptual estimates of object speed based on retinal and oculomotor signals lead to biased percepts such as the Aubert-Fl...

journal_title：Journal of vision

authors： Garzorz IT,Freeman TCA,Ernst MO,MacNeilage PR

更新日期：2018-12-03 00:00:00