abstract：:Spatiotopic cues, such as perceived distance, have little effect on accommodation unless blur has been reduced or eliminated. We investigated the effect of perceived distance on accommodation under binocular steady-state conditions, about which little is known. Blur was reduced but not eliminated by using a stimulus w...

journal_title：Vision research

authors： Kotulak JC,Morse SE

更新日期：1995-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Similarity ratings were obtained to determine the minimum number of Gabor components that would produce a comparison texture that appeared preattentively similar to a 64-component standard texture. All textures were chosen to be both specifiable by a relatively small number of localized spectral components and suffici...

journal_title：Vision research

authors： Geri GA,Lyon DR,Zeevi Y

更新日期：1995-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The squirrel monkey lacks anatomically demonstrable ocular dominance columns, and physiologically it has an ocular dominance distribution in V1 that is very different from that of macaques, with far fewer cells that strongly favor one eye over the other. We tested an alert squirrel monkey for physiological responses t...

journal_title：Vision research

authors： Livingstone MS,Nori S,Freeman DC,Hubel DH

更新日期：1995-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A local region in an image is seen as slanted when the two eyes are shown different luminance values in that region. The steepness of the slant depends upon the size of the region and the difference in the luminance values in the two eyes. Three examples where this phenomenon influences depth perception are given: (1)...

journal_title：Vision research

authors： Kumar T

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:STIMULI. The 1st-order stimuli are moving sine gratings. The 2nd-order stimuli are fields of static visual texture, whose contrasts are modulated by moving sine gratings. Neither the spatial slant (orientation) nor the direction of motion of these 2nd-order (microbalanced) stimuli can be detected by a Fourier analysis...

journal_title：Vision research

authors： Solomon JA,Sperling G

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:DL-2-amino-4-phosphonobutyric acid (APB) reduces the sensitivity of ON- and OFF-responses in goldfish retina, although the ON-responses are reduced significantly more than the OFF-responses. This paper describes the effects of APB on behavioral sensitivity of goldfish to spatial sinusoidal gratings. Fish were classica...

journal_title：Vision research

authors： Bilotta J,Demarco PJ Jr,Powers MK

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The temporal dynamics of brightness filling-in were studied through neural network simulation experiments conducted under visual masking stimulus conditions. Grossberg et al. have specified a filling-in model called the Boundary Contour System/Feature Contour System (BCS/FCS). The BCS generates boundary segmentation, ...

journal_title：Vision research

authors： Arrington KF

更新日期：1994-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A number of recent studies have suggested that the "intersection of constraints" model of two dimensional motion perception, put forward by Adelson and Movshon [(1982) Nature, 300, 523-525], is incomplete. Evidence has been mounting that there is a second two-dimensional motion sensitive mechanism which is monocular a...

journal_title：Vision research

authors： Burke D,Alais D,Wenderoth P

更新日期：1994-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Non-Fourier motion is now commonplace in research on visual motion perception, yet lacks a computational framework. This paper examines this issue based on the observation that many non-Fourier motion stimuli have a simple characterization in the frequency domain, in terms of oriented power distributions that lie alon...

journal_title：Vision research

authors： Fleet DJ,Langley K

更新日期：1994-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We examine whether the rules of cyclopean visual direction, as expressed by Hering and others, correctly predict the percept of visual direction for structured visual stimuli. Theoretical inspection of the rules of cyclopean visual direction shows a paradox for the binocular visual directions of stimuli in which objec...

journal_title：Vision research

authors： Erkelens CJ,van de Grind WA

更新日期：1994-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A number of experiments were conducted to investigate the interaction of the ON and OFF pathways in the processing of global-motion signals. The stimulus employed was a variant of that used by Newsome and Pare [(1988) Journal of Neuroscience, 8, 2201-2211] in which a small subset of dots move in a common (global-motio...

journal_title：Vision research

authors： Edwards M,Badcock DR

更新日期：1994-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Current theories of second-order motion perception postulate that such motion is detected by either a high-level mechanism which computes the temporal correspondences between "features" extracted from the image, or low-level motion mechanisms which operate on a nonlinear, neural transformation of the luminance profile...

journal_title：Vision research

authors： Ledgeway T,Smith AT

更新日期：1994-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have investigated the contribution of ocular muscle proprioception (OMP) to the long-term maintenance of ocular alignment in normal human beings. Using a scleral suction lens, one eye was rotated laterally 30 deg away from the position of the other eye. This procedure selectively affects OMP without altering the ef...

journal_title：Vision research

authors： Gauthier GM,Vercher JL,Zee DS

更新日期：1994-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A dichoptic display in which the images are cyclorotated in opposite directions does not appear inclined. This suggests that perceived inclination depends on the difference between horizontal-shear and vertical-shear disparity. Large random-dot stereoscopic displays were presented with various types of shear disparity...

journal_title：Vision research

authors： Howard IP,Kaneko H

更新日期：1994-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A global shape judgement task was used to investigate the combination of stereopsis and kinetic depth. With both cues present, there were no distortions of shape perception, even under conditions where either cue alone did show such distortions. We suggest that the addition of motion information overcomes the stereo d...

journal_title：Vision research

authors： Johnston EB,Cumming BG,Landy MS

更新日期：1994-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report on the ability of human observers to discriminate local second-order shape of quadratic stereo-defined surfaces. Local second-order shape can be specified by two parameters: the curvedness (a scale-dependent quantity describing overall curvature of a shape) and the shape index (a scale-independent quantity d...

journal_title：Vision research

authors： de Vries SC,Kappers AM,Koenderink JJ

更新日期：1994-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous psychophysical studies have revealed that shape similarity can affect apparent motion correspondence. Such results however, do not specify the level of representation, at which shape similarity is defined. We sought to understand this question by using a 2 x 2 competitive apparent motion paradigm. We manipula...

journal_title：Vision research

authors： He ZJ,Nakayama K

更新日期：1994-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of competing non-target stimuli (distractors) presented together with a target for saccades was investigated with special emphasis on saccadic reaction time. Using the gap task (fixation point offset preceding target onset by 200 msec) high numbers of express saccades were obtained from four human subjects....

journal_title：Vision research

authors： Weber H,Fischer B

更新日期：1994-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article describes a nonlinear model of neural processing in the vertebrate retina, comprising model photoreceptors, model push-pull bipolar cells, and model ganglion cells. Previous analyses and simulations have shown that with a choice of parameters that mimics beta cells, the model exhibits X-like linear spatia...

journal_title：Vision research

authors： Gaudiano P

更新日期：1994-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The discovery of visual sensitivity to UV dates from 1882 and was made in an insect, the ant, but in the last 15 years evidence for photoreceptors maximally sensitive in the UV has been found for many vertebrates. Studies of behavioral responses of insects that possess more than one spectral class of photoreceptor hav...

journal_title：Vision research

authors： Goldsmith TH

更新日期：1994-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The spectral sensitivity of single units in the torus semicircularis (TS) of small (< 30 g) and large (> 60 g) juvenile rainbow trout, Oncorhynchus mykiss, was investigated. All examined units (n = 39) showed inputs from the long and medium cone mechanisms. In addition, a majority of units (28 of 39) in both size grou...

journal_title：Vision research

authors： Coughlin DJ,Hawryshyn CW

更新日期：1994-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The contrast of a two-dimensional compound grating consisting of 2, 3 or 4 components with the same spatial frequency but different orientations was matched to the contrast of a simple cosine grating. At all spatial frequencies and contrast levels studied the stimuli which matched in apparent contrast had nearly equal...

journal_title：Vision research

authors： Tiippana K,Näsänen R,Rovamo J

更新日期：1994-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ability to judge the separation between two target lines deteriorates as the base separation increases. Several lines of evidence suggest that this may be due to larger base separations being processed by mechanisms that cover larger areas and which have a greater associated positional uncertainty as a consequence...

journal_title：Vision research

authors： Badcock DR,Sullivan K

更新日期：1994-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study showed that at equiluminance the critical duration of temporal integration became shorter as the chromatic saturation of an adaptation field was increased. These results suggest that the chromatic coding system (which is assumed to posses poorer temporal resolution or larger temporal integration time...

journal_title：Vision research

authors： Kawabata Y

更新日期：1994-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We propose and test the simple hypothesis that a chicken eye can emmetropize without cues derived from accommodation or colour just by maximizing retinal image contrast. Using different translucent occluders with known modulation transfer functions we found that deprivation myopia is correlated with the amount of imag...

journal_title：Vision research

authors： Bartmann M,Schaeffel F

更新日期：1994-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Minimum displacement thresholds were measured using a compound motion stimulus, in which a single bar split into oppositely moving components, having different luminances and absolute displacements. The results fit a simple model in which observers detect the movement of the centroid of the combined luminance pattern ...

journal_title：Vision research

authors： Morgan MJ,Ward RM,Cleary RF

更新日期：1994-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous studies have presented evidence for the existence of channels tuned to the spatial frequency (SF) of binocular disparity modulation. Bandwidths reported for masking curves were extremely narrow, possibly because of off-frequency viewing, whereby observers can best detect a signal with a channel tuned to an SF...

journal_title：Vision research

authors： Cobo-Lewis AB,Yeh YY

更新日期：1994-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human motion perception is assumed to be functionally described by an array of bi-local detectors feeding later, higher order computational stages. Using this model as a guide, improvement of spatio-temporal displacement sensitivity by temporal integration (summation) was measured in human central vision using random ...

journal_title：Vision research

authors： Fredericksen RE,Verstraten FA,Van de Grind WA

更新日期：1994-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two moving random-pixel arrays (RPAs) were presented simultaneously in the same target field. These RPAs are perceived as two superimposed transparent moving sheets. Although two directions are perceived simultaneously during stimulus presentation, the movement aftereffect (MAE) is unidirectional. The visual system av...

journal_title：Vision research

authors： Verstraten FA,Fredericksen RE,van de Grind WA

更新日期：1994-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Psychophysical studies of interactions between contours defined by different image attributes report that luminance-defined and illusory contours show little if any interaction. Because the contours defined by these attributes may vary in perceptual saliency, we employed the tilt aftereffect (TAE) and a cross-adaptati...

journal_title：Vision research

authors： Berkley MA,Debruyn B,Orban G

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lateral interactions between spatial filters were explored with a lateral masking paradigm. Contrast sensitivity (two-alternative forced-choice) for a Gabor signal in the presence of two flanking high contrast Gabor signals (masks) was measured. When the target to mask distance was less than 2 target wavelengths the c...

journal_title：Vision research

authors： Polat U,Sagi D

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Because the glutamate analog 2-amino-4-phosphonobutyric acid (APB) alters synaptic transmission at the outer plexiform layer in goldfish we asked whether intraocular injection of ABP would alter the spectral sensitivity of the retina. The spectral sensitivity of the ON and OFF components of the optic nerve response (O...

journal_title：Vision research

authors： Demarco PJ Jr,Powers MK

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An observer's ability to discriminate the angular direction of a moving grating depends on the grating orientation. Observers can more accurately judge the angular direction of vertical or horizontal gratings than oblique gratings. We discovered that this oblique effect becomes very large at high spatial frequencies i...

journal_title：Vision research

authors： Coletta NJ,Segu P,Tiana CL

更新日期：1993-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In order to assess the contribution of high spatial frequency channels (i.e. local, edge-dependent mechanisms) to the grating induction effect, grating induction magnitude was measured as a function of systematic amounts of blurring of the inducing/test field boundary for four test field heights which spanned a two oc...

journal_title：Vision research

authors： McCourt ME,Blakeslee B

更新日期：1993-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A system of regular, radial ridges, spaced approx. 250 nm apart, is reported from the outer corneal surface of the eye of the tiny moth Leucoptera coffeella. Antireflective coatings in larger insects with flatter facets often take the form of corneal nipples. However, evidence is presented that in an insect whose eyes...

journal_title：Vision research

authors： Meyer-Rochow VB,Stringer IA

更新日期：1993-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Light-induced protein interaction as part of the process of visual transduction in arthropods with rhabdomeric photoreceptors was investigated biochemically by using crayfish retina. Two kinds of retinal buffer soluble proteins (one of 40 kDa and the other of 46 kDa) were found to bind to the irradiated rhabdomeric me...

journal_title：Vision research

authors： Terakita A,Tsukahara Y,Hariyama T,Seki T,Tashiro H

更新日期：1993-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study demonstrates that an object embedded in an array of identical objects can pop-out. Dependent on the stimuli preceding the search display, local (chromatic) adaptation causes an identical object to pop-out because it appears to have a colour (Expt 1) or brightness (Expt 2) that is slightly different f...

journal_title：Vision research

authors： Theeuwes J,Lucassen MP

更新日期：1993-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study provides new clues about visual processes underlying the human pupillary responses evoked by achromatic spatial patterns. The pupillary responses can be modeled as a combination of two processes, a temporally transient process which saturates with increasing contrast and a temporally sustained proces...

journal_title：Vision research

authors： Young RS,Kennish J

更新日期：1993-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The nominally steady-state accommodation response exhibits temporal variations which can be characterized by two dominant regions of activity; a low frequency component (LFC < 0.6 Hz) and a high frequency component (1.0 < or = HFC < or = 2.1 Hz). There is no consensus as to the relative contribution made by each of th...

journal_title：Vision research

authors： Gray LS,Winn B,Gilmartin B

更新日期：1993-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Colorimetric purity, measured as the first step from white toward the spectrum has a V-shaped function. Purity discrimination is best near 400 nm, least at 570 nm and intermediate at mid-spectrum and long wavelengths. A much flatter function occurs when colorimetric purity is measured as the first step from the spectr...

journal_title：Vision research

authors： Yeh T,Smith VC,Pokorny J

更新日期：1993-09-01 00:00:00