abstract：:Smooth pursuit eye movements superimpose additional motion on the retinal image of untracked visual targets, potentially leading to the perception of motion smear and a distortion of the perceived direction of motion. Previously, we demonstrated an attenuation of perceived motion smear when the untracked target moves ...

journal_title：Vision research

authors： Tong J,Aydin M,Bedell HE

更新日期：2007-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A dominant mechanism of cellular patterning in the growing fish retina is control of cell fate acquisition by negative feedback signals arising from differentiated cells. We tested the ability of a computational model of this pattern formation mechanism to simulate cellular patterns in regenerated goldfish retina. The...

journal_title：Vision research

authors： Tyler MJ,Cameron DA

更新日期：2007-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It has been shown that the perceived direction of a plaid with components of unequal contrast is biased towards the direction of the higher-contrast component [Stone, L. S., Watson, A. B., & Mulligan, J. B. (1990). Effect of contrast on the perceived direction of a moving plaid. Vision Research 30, 1049-1067]. It was ...

journal_title：Vision research

authors： Champion RA,Hammett ST,Thompson PG

更新日期：2007-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:At temporal frequencies between approximately 30 and 70 Hz, the flicker electroretinogram (ERG) of the cone system can exhibit an alternation in response amplitude from cycle to cycle that has been termed synchronous period doubling. This phenomenon has been attributed to a nonlinear feedback mechanism at an early ret...

journal_title：Vision research

authors： Alexander KR,Raghuram A

更新日期：2007-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:One of the most fundamental functions of the visual system is to code the positions of objects. Most studies, especially those using fMRI, widely assume that the location of the peak retinotopic activity generated in the visual cortex by an object is the position assigned to that object-this is a simplified version of...

journal_title：Vision research

authors： Whitney D,Bressler DW

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Morrone et al. [Morrone, M. C., Denti, V., & Spinelli, D. (2002). Color and luminance contrasts attract independent attention. Current Biology, 12, 1134-1137] reported that the detrimental effect on contrast discrimination thresholds of performing a concomitant task is modality specific: performing a secondary luminan...

journal_title：Vision research

authors： Chirimuuta M,Burr D,Morrone MC

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Are surfaces' colours judged from weighted averages of the light that they reflect to the eyes and the colour contrast at their borders? To find out we asked subjects to set the colour and luminance of test disks to match reference disks, on various backgrounds, and analysed the variability in their settings. Most of ...

journal_title：Vision research

authors： Brenner E,Granzier JJ,Smeets JB

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three experiments investigated the global effect with foveal distractors displayed in the same hemifield as more eccentric saccade targets. Distractors were x-letter strings of variable length and targets corresponded to the central letter of letter strings (e.g., 'xxxkxxx'). Results showed that only foveal distractor...

journal_title：Vision research

authors： Vitu F,Lancelin D,Jean A,Farioli F

更新日期：2006-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:What are the visual causes, rather than mere correlates, of attentional selection and how do they compare to each other during natural vision? To address these questions, we first strung together semantically unrelated dynamic scenes into MTV-style video clips, and performed eye tracking experiments with human observe...

journal_title：Vision research

authors： Carmi R,Itti L

更新日期：2006-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Exogenous covert attention is an automatic, transient form of attention that can be triggered by sudden changes in the periphery. Here we test for the effects of attention on color perception. We used the methodology developed by Carrasco, Ling, and Read [Carrasco, M., Ling, S., & Read, S. (2004). Attention alters app...

journal_title：Vision research

authors： Fuller S,Carrasco M

更新日期：2006-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Some studies have reported deficits in amblyopia for global form and motion integration, whereas other studies have shown global integration of form and motion information to be normal in amblyopia. Here, we attempt to resolve this discrepancy by showing that amblyopes only exhibit selective performance deficits on gl...

journal_title：Vision research

authors： Mansouri B,Hess RF

更新日期：2006-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study examined perceptual distortions of a vertical line before and after macular hole (MH) surgery in 25 eyes of 24 patients. Participants' perceptual reports of distortions were classified as solid, bent right/left, thinned at the center, or broken. The majority of patients (72%) reported symmetrical dis...

journal_title：Vision research

authors： Wittich W,Overbury O,Kapusta MA,Watanabe DH,Faubert J

更新日期：2006-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Stimulus threshold and response latencies were measured for electrically elicited retinal ganglion cell responses in retina isolated from the eyes of normal and retinal degenerate (rd1) mice. Stimulation of the ganglion cell-side in normal retina yielded a significantly lower mean threshold and shorter latency when co...

journal_title：Vision research

authors： O'Hearn TM,Sadda SR,Weiland JD,Maia M,Margalit E,Humayun MS

更新日期：2006-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Prior studies indicate that postural stability under binocular viewing is not better than under monocular viewing. This was tested at the distances of 145 cm [Fox, C.R. (1990). Some visual influences on human postural equilibrium: binocular versus monocular fixation. Perception and Psychophysics, 47 (5), 409-422] and ...

journal_title：Vision research

authors： Lê TT,Kapoula Z

更新日期：2006-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tse (2005) recently introduced a new class of illusory brightness changes where shifts of attention lead to shifts in perceived brightness across overlapping, transparent figures, under conditions of visual fixation. In the absence of endogenous attentional shifts, illusory brightness changes appear to shift from figu...

journal_title：Vision research

authors： Tse PU,Caplovitz GP,Hsieh PJ

更新日期：2006-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have recorded the activity of omnipause neurons (OPNs) in the raphe interpositus during so-called staircase saccades produced by prolonged activation of the superior colliculus (SC) by microstimulation. By showing that OPNs cyclically pause during the periodic movements produced by the steady activation function, w...

journal_title：Vision research

authors： Paul K,Gnadt JW

更新日期：2006-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:While saccadic eye movements produce rapid shift of images of objects on the retina, the visual world is perceived as stationary (visual stability), but the precise mechanisms involved in such perception remain unclear. We investigated if visual stimuli existing before and/or after a saccade serve to preserve visual s...

journal_title：Vision research

authors： Honda H

更新日期：2006-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A successive asymmetric colour-matching task was used to study the changes in colour appearance of simulated Munsell samples. Colour shifts were induced with two Planckian illuminants, standard illuminant A (u'=0.256, v'=0.524) and illuminant S (u'=0.174, v'=0.392). Measurements were conducted with a 20 degrees field ...

journal_title：Vision research

authors： Murray IJ,Daugirdiene A,Vaitkevicius H,Kulikowski JJ,Stanikunas R

更新日期：2006-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To investigate the mechanisms of perceptual learning, we recently introduced a paradigm in which incorrect, reverse feedback followed after some but not all vernier presentations. This feedback paradigm exerted a strong effect on performance that seemed to bias decisions rather than to yield perceptual learning. Here,...

journal_title：Vision research

authors： Herzog MH,Ewald KR,Hermens F,Fahle M

更新日期：2006-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This is the first study to demonstrate the selectivity of learning for contrast polarity. The finding is the main result of an investigation into the existence of central and peripheral vision mechanisms selective for contrast polarity within the texture-segregation process, using the perceptual learning paradigm in a...

journal_title：Vision research

authors： Grieco A,Casco C,Roncato S

更新日期：2006-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Subjects indicated the tilt of dotted planes rotating in depth, in monocular viewing, under perspective projection. The responses depended on the FOV (field of view) and on the angle W between the tilt and frontal translation (orthogonal to the rotation axis). Response accuracy increased with the FOV, and decreased wi...

journal_title：Vision research

authors： Zhong H,Cornilleau-Pérès V,Cheong LF,Yeow GM,Droulez D

更新日期：2006-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The human visual system computes features of moving objects with high precision despite the fact that these features can change or blend into each other in the retinotopic image. Very little is known about how the human brain accomplishes this complex feat. Using a Ternus-Pikler display, introduced by Gestalt psycholo...

journal_title：Vision research

authors： Oğmen H,Otto TU,Herzog MH

更新日期：2006-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using new geometric information on the shape of the lens that has recently become available, a finite element model has been developed in order to estimate the forces that act on the lens during accommodation for a typical 29-year-old human eye. To investigate the influence of the anterior, posterior and central zonul...

journal_title：Vision research

authors： Hermans EA,Dubbelman M,van der Heijde GL,Heethaar RM

更新日期：2006-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The perceived position of a moving target at a particular point in time, indicated by a flash, is often judged to be different from its actual location. Here, we show that the position of a target moving in depth is also systematically mislocalized. We used three types of targets moving in depth at a range of speeds f...

journal_title：Vision research

authors： Harris LR,Duke PA,Kopinska A

更新日期：2006-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Spatial cueing of transient attention has recently been shown to reduce temporal sensitivity. We investigated how the size of the sustained attentional focus influences double-pulse resolution (DPR) thresholds mapped across the visual field in a sample of 95 healthy subjects using a 9-fold interleaved adaptive algorit...

journal_title：Vision research

authors： Poggel DA,Treutwein B,Calmanti C,Strasburger H

更新日期：2006-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous studies have shown that attention to a particular stimulus feature, such as direction of motion or color, enhances neuronal responses to unattended stimuli sharing that feature. We studied this effect psychophysically by measuring the strength of the motion aftereffect (MAE) induced by an unattended stimulus ...

journal_title：Vision research

authors： Boynton GM,Ciaramitaro VM,Arman AC

更新日期：2006-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ring-billed gulls (Larus delawarensis) and gray gulls (Larus modestus) are two species active both by day and night. We have investigated the retinal adaptations that allow the diurnal and nocturnal behaviours of these two species. Electroretinograms and histological analyses show that both species have a duplex retin...

journal_title：Vision research

authors： Emond MP,McNeil R,Cabana T,Guerra CG,Lachapelle P

更新日期：2006-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Explorative eye movements specifically target some parts of a scene while ignoring others. Here, we investigate how local image structure--defined by spatial frequency contrast--and informative image content--defined by higher order image statistics-are weighted for the selection of fixation points. We measured eye mo...

journal_title：Vision research

authors： Kayser C,Nielsen KJ,Logothetis NK

更新日期：2006-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The gap effect refers to a reduction in the latency of saccades to peripherally appearing targets when the fixation point disappears a short time before target appearance. The effect has been attributed to a number of potential mechanisms that function to assist in the maintenance of fixation. One such mechanism, atte...

journal_title：Vision research

authors： Pratt J,Lajonchere CM,Abrams RA

更新日期：2006-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This brief review article brings together a series of related experiments in psychophysics and physiology that show striking similarities between measurements in human observers and in single neurons. We consider seven pairs of primary research articles, each pair consisting of one paper in physiology and one in psych...

journal_title：Vision research

authors： Neri P,Levi DM

更新日期：2006-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:If two demarcated dots are embedded in separate clusters of similar dots in off centre positions, their perceived separation is biased towards the separation between the centres of the clusters (Morgan, Hole, & Glennerster, 1990). We replicated these results and went on to determine whether a similar bias is present f...

journal_title：Vision research

authors： Seizova-Cajic T,Gillam B

更新日期：2006-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Static visual stimulus presented behind a moving pattern inhibits vection. On the other hand, the same static stimulus facilitates vection if it is located in front of the moving pattern. In this study, the effects of depth, eccentricity and size of the additional static stimulus on inhibition and facilitation of hori...

journal_title：Vision research

authors： Nakamura S

更新日期：2006-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The role of the perceptual organization of the visual display on eye movement control was examined in two experiments using a task where a two-saccade sequence was directed toward either a single elongated object or three separate shorter objects. In the first experiment, we examined the consequences for the second sa...

journal_title：Vision research

authors： Vergilino-Perez D,Findlay JM

更新日期：2006-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bees are predominantly diurnal; only a few groups fly at night. An evolutionary limitation that bees must overcome to inhabit dim environments is their eye type: bees possess apposition compound eyes, which are poorly suited to vision in dim light. Here, we theoretically examine how nocturnal bees Megalopta genalis fl...

journal_title：Vision research

authors： Theobald JC,Greiner B,Wcislo WT,Warrant EJ

更新日期：2006-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated whether the effect of covert attention on information accrual varies with eccentricity (4 degrees vs 9 degrees) and the complexity of the visual search task (feature vs conjunction). We used speed-accuracy tradeoff procedures to derive conjoint measures of the speed of information processing and accura...

journal_title：Vision research

authors： Carrasco M,Giordano AM,McElree B

更新日期：2006-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the present study, discrete trial familiarization/novelty techniques were used to study lightness constancy in 4-month-old infants. The test stimuli were real objects (paper smiley faces) of two different reflectances, dark gray (17% reflectance) and light gray (54% reflectance). In Experiment 1, the test stimuli w...

journal_title：Vision research

authors： Chien SH,Bronson-Castain K,Palmer J,Teller DY

更新日期：2006-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Visual search is a fundamental and routine task of everyday life. Studying visual search promises to shed light on the basic attentional mechanisms that facilitate visual processing. To investigate visual attention during search processes, numerous studies measured the selectivity of observers' saccadic eye movements ...

journal_title：Vision research

authors： Pomplun M

更新日期：2006-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The flash-lag effect (FLE) is defined as an error in localization that consists of perceiving a flashed object to lag behind a moving one when both are presented in physical alignment. Previous studies have addressed the question if it is the predictability of the flash, or the moving object, that modulates the amount...

journal_title：Vision research

authors： López-Moliner J,Linares D

更新日期：2006-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study compared color appearance data for two populations of middle-aged women: (1) women using the selective estrogen receptor modulator tamoxifen as adjuvant therapy following successful treatment for early-stage breast cancer, and (2) healthy amenorrheic (peri- or post-menopausal) control subjects not using any...

journal_title：Vision research

authors： Eisner A,Incognito LJ

更新日期：2006-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Age related changes in the dynamics of accommodation (far to near focus) and disaccommodation (near to far focus) are reported in this study. Dynamic responses to step stimulus demands from 1D to 6D, in 1D steps, were recorded with a PowerRefractor in 66 subjects in the age range 14-45 years. The accommodative and dis...

journal_title：Vision research

authors： Kasthurirangan S,Glasser A

更新日期：2006-04-01 00:00:00