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Issue 1

Editorial 1 – 2

The relationship between brightness contrast and illusory contours 3 – 9
Max K Jory, Ross H Day

The utilization of external and movement cues in simple spatial tasks by blind and sighted children 11 – 20
Susanna Millar

Eye guidance in reading: fixation locations within words 21 – 30
Keith Rayner

Hans Gertz revisited: the different effects of invisibility and darkness on pursuit eye movements 31 – 36
Georgina Glenny, Simon Heywood

Recalibration of the convergence system 37 – 42
Claes von Hofsten

A perceptual phenomenon and its neurophysiological correlate 43 – 46
Lamberto Maffei, Concetta Morrone, Mario Pirchio, Giulio Sandini

A comparison of visual tilt illusions measured by the techniques of vertical setting, parallel matching, and dot alignment 47 – 57
Peter Wenderoth, Alan Parkinson, Dennis White

Frequency, phase, and colour coding in apparent motion 59 – 68
Terry Caelli, David Finlay

On the limits of Fourier decompositions in visual texture perception 69 – 73
Bela Julesz, Terry Caelli

Texture discrimination and the analysis of proximity 75 – 91
John Fox, John E W Mayhew

Auditory texture perception 93 – 103
Susan J Lederman

Chromatic induction effects in the Hermann grid illusion 105 – 114
Andrea McCarter

Letter to the editor 115

Reviews 117 – 121

Issue 2

Editorial 123 – 124

Motion parallax as an independent cue for depth perception 125 – 134
Brian Rogers, Maureen Graham

Depth inversion despite stereopsis: the appearance of random-dot stereograms on surfaces seen in reverse perspective 135 – 142
John I Yellott Jr, Jerry L Kaiwi

The site of binocular rivalry suppression 143 – 152
Randolph Blake, Randall Overton

Does visual texture discrimination precede binocular fusion? 153 – 156
John P Frisby, John E W Mayhew

The contribution of colour to three-dimensional ambiguities in paintings and drawings 157 – 173
Francis Pratt

Adaptation to displacing prisms in human infants 175 – 185
Paul M McDonnell, Wayne C Abraham

The relational determination of length illusions and length aftereffects 187 – 197
Mitchell Brigell, John Uhlarik

Bias-free improvement in wine discrimination 199 – 209
Dean H Owen, Peter K Machamer

Sensory conditions for the occurrence of the neon spreading illusion 211 – 215
Harrie F J M van Tuijl, Charles M M de Weert

Discrimination of stimulus aperiodicity as a function of temporal patterning: a discrepancy between psychophysical and sensory-neural assessments 217 – 224
Eugene C Lechelt

Optical defocusing reverses perceptual organization 225 – 228
J Timothy Petersik

Even a possible figure can look impossible! 229 – 232

Comment on "Binocular convergence as a determinant of reaching behavior in infancy" 233 – 234

Ballistic and visually guided reaching in infancy: a short reply to McDonnell 235

Are black circles attentive fields? A reply to Bross, Blair, and Longtin 237 – 238
Alexander W Pressey

Reviews 241 – 243

Humour 244

Issue 3

Monkeys show an oblique effect 247 – 253
Joseph A Bauer Jr, Donald A Owens, Joseph Thomas, Richard Held

Induced motion as a function of the speed of the inducing object, measured by means of two methods 255 – 262
Walter C Gogel

The effects of duration and luminance on binocular depth mixture 263 – 267
Eileen E Birch, John M Foley

The Cheshire Cat effect 269 – 273
Sally Duensing, Bob Miller

The Münsterberg illusion and 'irradiation' 275 – 301
Bernard Moulden, Judy Renshaw

Heritability in visual-geometric illusions: a family study 303 – 309
Stanley Coren, Clare Porac

Absolute and relative cues for the auditory perception of egocentric distance 311 – 322
Donald H Mershon, John N Bowers

Spatial localization under conflict conditions: is there a single explanation? 323 – 337
David H Warren

Parotid and whole-mouth secretion in response to viewing, handling, and sniffing food 339 – 346
Rose Marie Pangborn, Steven A Witherly, Frances Jones

The computer paper illusion 347 – 348
Jeremy M Wolfe

A simple design for an impossible triangle 349 – 350
James R Brouwer, David C Rubin

Blur and pseudoisochromatic colour vision tests 351 – 353
Steve P Taylor, J Margaret Woodhouse

Blur and pseudoisochromatic colour vision tests: a reply to Taylor and Woodhouse 355 – 356
Ian E Gordon

Issue 4

Editorial 363 – 364

Border locking and the Café Wall illusion 365 – 380
Richard L Gregory, Priscilla Heard

Three-dimensional perception of planar line segments 381 – 388
Horst W Hoyer

Assessment of depth perception in cats 389 – 396
Donald E Mitchell, Martin Kaye, Brian Timney

Depth inversion in random-dot stereograms 397 – 399
John P Frisby, John E W Mayhew

Visual-geometric illusions: unisex phenomena 401 – 412
Clare Porac, Stanley Coren, Joan S Girgus, Mickey Verde

A new effect of pattern on perceived lightness 413 – 416
Michael White

Figure-ground formation by movement: influences and effects 417 – 430
Linda F Alwitt

Identification of familiar and unfamiliar faces from internal and external features: some implications for theories of face recognition 431 – 439
Hadyn D Ellis, John W Shepherd, Graham M Davies

Salt taste adaptation: the psychophysical effects of adapting solutions and residual stimuli from prior tastings on the taste of sodium chloride 441 – 476
Michael O'Mahony

Attentive fields: valid scientific constructs or elusive theoretical entities: a reply to Pressey 477 – 478
Michael Bross

Letter to the editor 479

Reviews 481 – 483

Issue 5

Editorial 485 – 486

Interactions between simultaneous contrast and adaptation to gradual change of luminance 487 – 495
Stuart M Anstis

Salt taste detection: an R-index approach to signal-detection measurements 497 – 506
Michael O'Mahony, Laura Gardner, Denise Long, Christi Heintz, Barbara Thompson, Mary Davies

Genetic and environmental factors in orientation anisotropy: a field study in the British Isles 507 – 521
Helen E Ross, J Margaret Woodhouse

A test for contrast-polarity selectivity in the tilt aftereffect 523 – 528
Svein Magnussen, Wolfgang Kurtenbach

The effect of spatial frequency and contrast on visual persistence 529 – 539
Alison Bowling, William Lovegrove, Barry Mapperson

Decrease in metacontrast masking following adaptation to flicker 541 – 547
Susan Petry, Antony Grigonis, Bernard Reichert

Pattern and flicker detection examined in terms of the nasal-temporal division of the retina 549 – 555
Randolph Blake, Jamie Mills

Exposure-time and spatial-frequency effects in the tilt illusion 557 – 564
Brian I O'Toole

Angle-matching illusions and perceived line orientation 565 – 575
Peter Wenderoth, Dennis White

Recognition of upright and inverted faces: a correlational study 577 – 583
Richard J Phillips, Richard E Rawles

Random-dot stereograms of real objects: observations on stereo faces and moulds 585 – 588
Mark A Georgeson

The nonequivalence of abrupt and diffuse illusory contours 589 – 593
Barry L Richardson

Frequency, phase, and colour coding in apparent motion: 2 595 – 602
David Finlay, Terry Caelli

Review 603 – 604

Humour 605

Issue 6

Editorial 607 – 608

Development of the perception of invariants: substance and shape 609 – 619
Eleanor J Gibson, Cynthia J Owsley, Arlene Walker, Jane Megaw-Nyce

Scanning visual images: implications for the representation of space 621 – 628
John R Beech

Flexibility in the choice of distinctive features in visual search with blocked and random designs 629 – 633
Derek W J Corcoran, Alistair Jackson

The effects of verbal meaning and response categorisation on the fragmentation of steadily fixated patterns 635 – 646
Michael T Swanston

Information used in judging impending collision 647 – 658
William Schiff, Mary Lou Detwiler

A new motion illusion 659 – 664
Paul H Schulman

Illusory contours as the solution to a problem 665 – 681
Irvin Rock, Richard Anson

Cerebral asymmetries in random-dot stereopsis: reversal of direction with changes in dot size 683 – 690
Colin B Pitblado

Surfaces with steep variations in depth pose difficulties for orientationally tuned disparity filters 691 – 698
John E W Mayhew, John P Frisby

Individual differences in the visual component of prism adaptation 699 – 706
Lawrence E Melamed, Peter A Beckett, Michael Malay

Adaptation effects on the apparent 'squareness' of square-wave gratings 707 – 710
Jacob Nachmias

Symmetry perception and spatial-frequency channels 711 – 718
Bela Julesz, Jih-Jie Chang

The influence of line reduction and image stabilization on Necker cube reversal: comments upon Ellis and Stark (1978) 719 – 720
David Piggins

Reply to Piggins 721 – 722
Stephen R Ellis, Lawrence Stark

Review 723 – 724

Author index 725 – 728

Subject index 729 – 730