European Conference on Visual Perception abstracts
ECVP 1996

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Adelson and WangLayers and alpha maps as visual representations
AhumadaPerceptual classification images from Vernier acuity masked by noise
AndersonBorder ownership as a special case of contrast ownership
ArringtonStochastic properties of segmentation-rivalry alternations
Bachmann and KahuskThe cost of spatial-attentional precuing for the perception of spatially quantised visual images
Backus et alHorizontal disparity pooling
Bahcall and KowlerInterference, not enhancement, when attending to two nearby targets
Banks et alVisual direction behind and near an occluder
BeaudotDynamics in parvocellular and magnocellular pathways: Consequences for luminance and colour processing streams
Bergström et alA colour constancy phenomenon related to perceived 3-D shape
Bertamini and ProffittHierarchical motion organization in random-dot configurations
Beutter et alVisual coherence affects smooth pursuit
Bex et alTemporal and spatial frequency tuning of the flicker motion aftereffect
Blakemore and SnowdenThe changing of perceived speed as a function of stimulus contrast: an attempted replication with a variety of stimuli
Blum and BarnesAre special mechanisms chosen in short experience-based identification of degraded geometric forms?
Bonnet and DufourExtracting distributed orientations in different contexts
Bonnet et alReaction time to gratings: a re-examination
Bowen and de RidderDynamic contrast perception assessed by pattern masking
BownsFeature contribution to motion signal predicted by magnitude of intersection-of-constraints projection
Bradshaw and RogersDo monocular tilt and spatial frequency aftereffects induce the binocular perception of inclination and slant?
Bradshaw and RogersDo monocular tilt and spatial frequency aftereffects induce the binocular perception of inclination and slant?
Braun et alDeficits and recovery of first-order and second-order motion perception in patients with unilateral posterior parietal lesions
Brawn and SnowdenThe role of attention in the detection of luminance changes: endogenous versus exogenous cueing
Brenner et alHolding an object: kinesthesia does not influence the visually perceived size
Bülthoff et alFeatures of the representation space for 3-D objects
Calder et alPerception of photographic-quality caricatures of emotional facial expressions
Carlin and WattPsychophysical discrimination of spatial structure in natural images
Chua et alPriming within the `attentional blink' in an RSVP task
Clark et alImage region labelling by humans and by an artificial neural network
Cornelissen and BrennerIgnoring sparse chromatic context
Cornilleau-Pérès et alThe dominance of static depth cues over motion parallax in the perception of surface orientation
Cowie et alThe contribution of provisual actions to judgments of form in depth
CrunelleA problem in perception: living in trapezoidal spaces
Davies et alPerception of slope and distance in photographs and in the real world
Deubel et alVisual attention and manual aiming: Evidence for obligatory and selective spatial coupling
Diaz et alTracing a metameric match to individual variations of colour vision
Distler and BülthoffVelocity perception in 3-D environments
Doherty and FosterAnisotropy in oriented-line-target detection at high and low luminance contrast
Donner and FagerholmMechanisms and meaning of deVries -- Rose adaptation
Dresp and WehrhahnIsoluminant colour contrast does not fill in surfaces
D'Zmura and KnoblauchSpectral bandwidths of colour detection mechanisms
Ehrenstein and SokolovCategory ratings of visual velocity support Haubensak's consistency model
EnrightA perplexing puzzle involving perception of straight ahead
Epelboim et alFillers and spaces in text: implications for the relative importance of word recognition and physical features of the text during reading
FellenzNeural dynamics for preattentive perceptual grouping: linking Gestalt laws and cortical synchronisation
Findlay et alSaccade programming in strabismic suppression
Fischer and WeberOn the generation of antisaccades in different conditions
Fiser et alIs coarse-to-fine tuning in object recognition one of size or scale?
Foster and KukkonenEfficient cues for discriminating skewed curved-line segments
Freeman et alDiscrimination of optic flow components: access to the third dimension?
FreemanOne whole or two? The flexible role of the observer in perceptual grouping
Frisby et alEvidence for good recovery of lengths of real objects seen with natural stereo viewing
Fritsch and NeumeyerColour constancy in goldfish---the role of surround reflectance
Gaussier et alHow acting allows to segregate objects in a visual scene
Gellatly and BlurtonWhat are the mechanisms of rivalrous first-order and second-order motions?
Gepshtein and CoopermanHyperglobal interactions in perception of stereoscopic transparency
Gilchrist et alConverging evidence for two separate processes in perceptual grouping
Gillam et alConflict between stereo and perspective in resolving the slant of cyclopean trapezoids
Gillam and SedgwickThe interaction of stereopsis and perspective in the perception of depth
Greenlee et alEffect of eye movements on the magnitude of fMRI responses in extrastriate cortex during visual motion perception
Grigo and LappeIllusory optic flow transformation with binocular vision
Grodon and FahleParallel processing of luminance steps in the presence of luminance gradients
Grunewald and LankheetThe orthogonal motion aftereffect
Harris and SullivanStrength of motion aftereffect varies with segregation of test field and surround
Heitger and PeterhansA neuronal model detecting figure -- ground direction and contrast polarity at illusory contours
HellerOn the psychophysics of binocular visual space
Henning et alIncrement and decrement detection across the Mach-band stimulus
Hill and WattFace detection in natural scenes
Hilton and CooperStructural representations of objects: Invariance over a shape-distorting transformation
Hock et alThe effect of temporal phase on the perception of apparent motion
Hogervorst et alDetection of relative motion
Hooge and ErkelensControl of fixation duration and saccade direction during search
Häkkinen et alIs stereoscopic capture possible with three-dimensionally slanted or curved illusory surfaces?
Idesawa et alDynamic structural change of 3-D illusory surface observed with binocular viewing
IgnatovInterstimulus interference effect with Stroop-type stimuli
JaschinskiFixation disparity as a function of viewing distance and prism load
Johnston and McOwanVelocity computation from measures of spatiotemporal gradients at multiple orientations
Jordan and MollonLong-term changes in colour matching functions after exposure to artificial sunlight
Jüttner et alShift-invariance of pattern recognition in the visual field?
Kappers et alIndicating the singular point in first-order optical flow fields
Keeble and HessThe effect of orientation on alignment performance
KehrerTexture segmentation performance as a function of target size: psychophysical data and simulation results
Kellman and ShipleyDepth and motion in object completion
Kennedy and TolhurstNatural-image discrimination in the periphery: the importance of phase and amplitude information
KirschfeldInformation processing by cortical subthreshold and suprathreshold activity
Koenderink et alExocentric directions in egocentric space
KrolVisual recognition as controlled search of complicated fragments
Kulikowski et alColour constancy, categories, and spectral sensitivity
Lamouret et alA computational model of the perceived velocity of moving plaids
Lankheet and PalmenStereoscopic transparency and segregation in depth
Laurinen and OlzakFunctional aspects of border-signalling mechanisms
Lee and RogersDisparity modulation sensitivity for narrow-band-filtered stereograms viewed out of the plane of fixation
Lee et alOvert visual attention in Parkinson's disease
LeharGeneralised model of illusory grouping accounts for collinear, orthogonal, and vertex grouping percepts
Leonards and SingerTexture segregation by orientation differences: colour sensitive but not hue specific?
Levitt and LundContrast dependence of contextual effects in macaque striate cortex
Liter and BülthoffThe role of components in recognition across changes of view
Lorenceau et alSpatial and temporal properties of motion linking
Luque et alChromatic intensities with achromatic surrounds
Maloney et alChanges in perceived object shape with changes in lighting model and surface properties
Mamassian and LandyCooperation of priors for the perception of shaded line drawings
McGowan et alSaccadic localisation of random dot targets
McLoughlinIs the McCollough effect coded in disparity-sensitive units?
MeineckeIncreasing the number of context elements in early vision: more is better
Mestre and MassonOptokinetic oculomotor responses and the perception of depth from motion parallax cues
Moeller and HurlbertEffects of element density on segmentation by luminance, colour, and motion
MulliganSpeed judgments of transparent stimuli
Nascimento and FosterMisinterpreting changes of illuminant on complex Mondrian patterns
Neumann and MössnerNeural mechanisms in boundary grouping, illusory contour generation, and spatial tuning of receptive field selectivity
NewellSearching for objects in the visual periphery: effects of orientation
Oddo et alSegregation of chromatic element-arrangement textures
OhmiVection with real-world stimuli
Okajima et alInteraction between colour and depth channels in transparent colour perception
Oliva and SchynsDiagnostic colours influence speeded scene recognition
Olzak et alSimultaneously judging contrast in different orientation and frequency bands
Osaka et alEvoked magnetic field elicited by motion and motion aftereffect
Ovenston and WhittleImproved discrimination near the background field: transfer of the `crispening effect' to colour
Palagi and Guérin-DuguéSimulation of cortex visual cells for texture segmentation: foveal and parafoveal projections
Parton et alThe effect of surface orientation on the perception of stereoscopic corrugations
PavlovaBiological motion perception: from inversion to upright display orientation
Pins et alDo difficulties in stimulus discrimination affect luminance processing?
Pollick and TittleGrasping stereo and texture cue combinations
Poquin et alInteraction between perspective visual cues and monocular versus binocular vision in the perception of pitch subjective vertical
Prins and JuolaAttention switching vs attention sharing in searching dual RSVP streams
Radach et alBinocular coordination, fixation disparity, and ocular dominance
Reisbeck and GegenfurtnerOrientation discrimination at isoluminance
RensinkThe attentional capacity of visual search under flicker conditions
Rentschler et alBiography vs biology in visual aesthetic preference
Ringach et alCortical circuitry revealed by reverse correlation in the orientation domain
Rogers and BradshawAssessing the role of vergence changes in the perception of random-dot stereograms by using open-loop control of vergence
Rovamo and RaninenModelling of human flicker detection at various light levels
Rubin et alAbrupt transitions in the perception of illusory contours triggered by specific visual stimuli
Sakurai and OnoPerceived depth from dot density change by lateral head movements
Sato and UchikawaMislocalisation of chromatic and achromatic stimuli during saccadic eye movements
Savage and FosterTarget detection and texture segmentation in briefly presented displays of curved-line elements
Schneider and DeubelTranssaccadic memory: A postsaccadic gap enhances the perception of intrasaccadic object changes differently for dorsal and ventral representations
Schoumans et alPointing in three-dimensional space
SciencesHand action in a radial direction captures visual motion in depth
Scott-Brown and HeeleyTerminator position affects the perceived speed of line segments tilted with respect to direction of motion
Sedgwick et alComponents of visual information specifying the surface of a picture: their relative effectiveness in decreasing cross-talk from the depicted scene
Selmes et alBehavioural and visual evoked potential measures of the role of disparity in stereo detection and discrimination
Shevelev and KolosovaHyperacuity of binocular depth perception in ordinary and trained subjects
Simmons and KingdomThe binocular summation of chromatic contrast
Sireteanu et alTexture segmentation and visual search in deaf and hearing subjects:
evidence for compensation?
Smith and LedgewayMotion perception in high-pass filtered random-dot patterns: motion energy, element-matching, or both?
SnoerenIs binocular rivalry a summative effect of random events?
SnowdenBloch's law for contrast increment detection: the effects of pedestal contrast and light level
Stankiewicz and HummelThe role of attention on viewpoint-invariant object recognition
Stivalet et alIntermodal compensatory effects in a visual search task with congenitally deaf adults
Stone et alSmooth pursuit of a partially occluded object
Stoper et alThe effect of environmental pitch on perceived optic slant and eye level: lines vs dots
Sumnall et alIntegration of disparity information across multiple fixations
Susami et alCooperative interaction between change in disparity and size for the perception of motion in depth
SuzukiBinocular rivalry in half-occluded regions of coloured random-dot stereograms
Tanaka and SagiLong-lasting detection facilitation induced by Gabor flankers
Thiele and HoffmannReaction time and time course of neuronal responses in MT and MST at different stimulus contrasts
Thompson et alShort-term memory for speed
Thorpe et alRapid categorisation of natural images with extrafoveal presentations
Treisman and JohnstonCategorical perception or cue combination in vision: A sensory coding model that predicts the form of the psychometric function
Tripathy et alPerceptual grouping of dots in noise
Troje and VetterPixel-based versus correspondence-based representations of human faces: Implications for sex discrimination
Troscianko et alSpatio-chromatic information content of natural scenes
Turano and HeidenreichA computational model of the eye movement effects on motion perception
Ujike and SaidaTwo stages for depth integration of motion parallax
Unzicker et alDynamics of visual supervised learning: A statistical-physics approach
van der Smagt and van de GrindSignal pooling across ON and OFF motion detectors
van Ee and ErkelensBinocularly perceived direction and outline shape
van Kruysbergen and HendriksThe relation between target localisation in strings of letters, contrast, and refresh rate
Verstraten and IntriligatorAsymmetries in brightness and darkness for assimilation and simultaneous contrast?
von der Heydt et alCortical coding of extended coloured figures
Wade et alLocal and global properties of motion aftereffects
Wagemans and TibauEuclidean cues versus affine or projective invariants in the visual perception of three-dimensional distances
Walker et alThe effects of remote distractors on saccade programming
Watanabe and ShimojoInhibition of return without visual awareness
Watt and CarlinStatistical analysis of spatial structure in natural images
Webster et alContrast adaptation and the spatial structure of natural images
Wehrhahn and DrespContrast and contextual effects: Detection of subthreshold lines
Weiss and AdelsonInteraction of multiple surface cues in motion grouping
Whitaker et alEffects of adaptation on perceived location for first-order and second-order visual stimuli
WhittlePerfect von Kries contrast colours
Wolf et alDepth illusion by delayed 3-D perception (`delayed stereopsis illusion'): A novel way to determine computation times in human vision by depth reversal in partially occluded moving objects
Wuerger and MorganOrientation discrimination for moving isoluminant and luminance targets
Würtz and von der MalsburgA hierarchical dynamic link network to solve the visual correspondence problem
Yendrikhovskij et alMemory representation of object colours
Zaidi et alAdaptation to variegated scenes and colour constancy
ZdravkovicEstimation of 3-D figures induced by 2-D mobile constellations of dots
Zhou et alEdge assignment in cells of monkey area V2