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Issue 1

Editorial 1 – 4

Effect of stationary objects on illusory forward self-motion induced by a looming display 5 – 12
Masao Ohmi, Ian P Howard

On a changing perspective illusion within Vermeer's The Music Lesson 13 – 21
Jan B Deregowski, Denis M Parker

The apparent size of three-dimensional objects and their silhouettes: a solid-superiority effect 23 – 30
James T Walker, M Jill Walker

Perceptual alternations in stereokinesis 31 – 34
Giorgio Vallortigara, Paola Bressan, Marco Bertamini

The concave cusp as a determiner of figure-ground 35 – 42
Kent A Stevens, Allen Brookes

Looking at faces: First-order and second-order features as determinants of facial appearance 43 – 63
Gillian Rhodes

The corner Poggendorff 65 – 70
Ernest Greene

Visual stimulation affects the perception of voluntary leg movements during walking 71 – 80
James R Lackner, Paul DiZio

Psychophysical evidence for an extrastriate contribution to a pattern-selective motion aftereffect 81 – 91
Peter Wenderoth, Rohan Bray, Syren Johnstone

Ratio judgments of empty durations with numeric scales 93 – 118
Yoshitaka Nakajima, Seishi Nishimura, Ryunen Teranishi

A mechanism for the direct perception of change: the example of bacterial chemotaxis 119 – 133
John B Pittenger, Cathy H Dent

A simple optical method for producing two identical stimuli moving in opposite directions 135 – 136
Bernard Moulden

Reviews 137 – 140

Humour 141

Issue 2

Editorial 143 – 146

Reference frame effects on shape perception in two versus three dimensions 147 – 163
Stephen Palmer, Edward Simone, Paul Kube

The differential effects of brief exposures and surrounding contours on direct and indirect tilt illusions 165 – 176
Peter Wenderoth, Syren Johnstone

Interactions in the discrimination and absolute judgement of orientation and length 177 – 189
Miri Dick, Shaul Hochstein

Psychophysical studies of shape with Fourier descriptor stimuli 191 – 202
Isabelle Alter, Eric L Schwartz

Uniform-field flicker masking in control and specifically-disabled readers 203 – 214
Frances Martin, William J Lovegrove

An astable multivibrator model of binocular rivalry 215 – 228
Sidney R Lehky

Points and endpoints: a size/spacing constraint for dot grouping 229 – 247
Steven W Zucker, Sheldon Davis

Sources of error in the Piagetian water-level task 249 – 254
Douglas Sommerville, Maureen V Cox

Dynamic occlusion and motion parallax in depth perception 255 – 266
Hiroshi Ono, Brian J Rogerl, Masao Ohmi, Mika E Ono

Information influences the pattern of eye fixations during sentence comprehension 267 – 278
Geoffrey Underwood, Richard Bloomfield, Susan Clews

Reviews 279 – 282

Humour 283 – 284

Issue 3

Editorial 285 – 287

Perceptions of depth elicited by occluded and shearing motions of random dots 289 – 296
Constance S Royden, James F Baker, John Allman

The psychophysics of retrospective and prospective timing 297 – 310
Scott W Brown, D Alan Stubbs

Real and subjective contour Poggendorff illusions: no differences based on eye color 311 – 313
Peter A Beckett, Stephen Hurajt

Age-related changes in contrast sensitivity in central and peripheral retina 315 – 332
Boris Crassini, Brian Brown, Ken Bowman

Reviews 333 – 336

Humour 337 – 338

Issue 4

Editorial 423 – 428

Identification of two-tone images; some implications for high- and low-spatial-frequency processes in human vision 429 – 436
Anthony Hayes

Visual parsing and priority effects in temporal order judgements of line drawn patterns 437 – 459
Ian H Fraser, Denis M Parker

The effect of feature displacement on the perception of well-known faces 461 – 474
Judith A Hosie, Hadyn D Ellis, Nigel D Haig

Feature saliency in judging the sex and familiarity of faces 475 – 481
Tony Roberts, Vicki Bruce

How contrast affects stereoacuity 483 – 495
D Lynn Halpern, Randolph R Blake

Depth discrimination from optic flow 497 – 512
William A Simpson

Are illusory contours a cause or a consequence of apparent differences in brightness and depth in the Kanizsa square? 513 – 521
Takeo Watanabe, Tadasu Oyama

Constant errors in judgements of collinearity due to the presence of neighbouring objects 523 – 534
W H Norman Hotopf, Susannah A Brown

Tactile recognition of mirror images by children: intermanual transfer and rotation of the palm 535 – 547
Barbara Heath, George Ettlinger, Josephine V Brown

The discrimination of human odour by the dog 549 – 554
Peter G Hepper

Reviews 555 – 556

Conferences 557 – 558

Issue 5

Editorial 561 – 563

The effect of feature uncertainty on spatial discriminations 565 – 577
Rufin Vogels, Hilde Eeckhout, Guy A Orban

Spatial asymmetries in tactile discrimination of line orientation: a comparison of the sighted, visually impaired, and blind 579 – 585
Eugene C Lechelt

Development of orientation discrimination in infancy 587 – 595
Janette Atkinson, Bruce Hood, John Wattam-Bell, Shirley Anker, Johanna Tricklebank

Orientation discrimination and cortical function in the human newborn 597 – 602
Alan Slater, Victoria Morison, Marcia Somers

The role of monocular regions in stereoscopic displays 603 – 608
Barbara Gillam, Eric Borsting

Accommodation and apparent distance 609 – 621
S Kay Fisher, Kenneth J Ciuffreda

Visual information and skill level in time-to-collision estimation 623 – 632
Viola Cavallo, Michel Laurent

The perception of an optical flow projected on the ground surface 633 – 645
Michelangelo Flückiger, Bernard Baumberger

Alleys on an extensive apparent frontoparallel plane: a second experiment 647 – 666
Tarow Indow, Toshio Watanabe

Apparent movements induced by luminance modulations: a model study 667 – 679
Henk A K Mastebroek, Willem H Zaagman

A new visual problem: phenomenic folding 681 – 694
Manfredo Massironi

Reviews 695 – 698

Issue 6

Editorial 699 – 702

Characteristic views and the visual inspection of simple faceted and smooth objects: 'tetrahedra and potatoes' 703 – 720
David I Perrett, Mark H Harries

Left-right visual field asymmetry in bistable motion perception 721 – 727
Clara Casco, Donatella Spinelli

Temporal properties of apparent motion in subjective figures 729 – 736
George Mather

Circular vection is independent of stimulus eccentricity 737 – 744
Robert B Post

The effects of target borders on dynamic visual acuity: practical and theoretical implications 745 – 751
Gerald M Long, Philip M Garvey

Planarity and segmentation in stereoscopic matching 753 – 782
Graeme Mitchison

Adaptation to telestereoscopic viewing measured by one-handed ball-catching performance 783 – 802
Stuart J Judge, C Mary Bradford

Size constancy in children: A new interpretation 803 – 813
Josephine Shallo, Irvin Rock

On Thompson's inverted-face phenomenon (Research Note) 815 – 817

A simple analogue teaching device for demonstrating visual-receptive-field properties 819 – 825
Bernard Moulden, David Martin

Reviews 827 – 828

Author index 829 – 832

Subject index 833 – 835