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European Conference on Visual Perception
22 - 26 August 1999 - Trieste - Italy

ECVP 99 Full Programme


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ECVP 99 FINAL PROGRAMME
Trieste, Congress Centre Stazione Marittima

SUNDAY 22 AUGUST - Auditorium

17.00 Registration
Reception and drinks

20.00 PERCEPTION hosts
"The Seventh Kanizsa Lecture"
R L Gregory
The Phenomenal Science and Art of Perception

MONDAY 23 AUGUST - Saturnia room

8.30-13.30 SYMPOSIUM: Optic flow and heading
(Organisers: D C Burr, M Banks)


Chair: D C Burr

8.30 Optic flow and proprioceptive information for control of heading (Keynote lecture)

M Banks (582)

9.10 Control of walking from optic flow
W Warren, B A Kay (86)

9.30 When do we use optic flow and when do we use perceived direction to control locomotion
B J Rogers, R Allison (589)

9.50 Perception of 2D simulated self-motion from optic flow
R Bertin, I Israel, M Lappe (205)

10.10 The same perception of self-motion from different combinations of visual and non-visual cues
M Jenkin, H Laurence, R Fara, D Zikovitz (513)


10.30 COFFEE BREAK

Chair: M Banks
11.00 Influence of pursuit speed on the representation of heading in macaque MSTd
K V Shenoy, J A Crowell, R A Andersen (581)

11.20 Gaze-centred first-order analysis of optic flow based on spatiotemporal
filtering of cortical flowfields: a novel view of MST functional properties
S P Sabatini, F Solari, R Carmeli, P Cavalleri, G M Bisio (34)

11.40 Functional magnetic resonance response to flow-field motion
M C Morrone, M Tosetti, D Montanaro, D C Burr, A Fiorentini, G Cioni (253)

12.00 Adaptation to expansion and perceived time to collision:
psychophysical and driving-simulator observations
R Gray, D M Regan (134)

12.20 Time-to-collision and surface layout
M Harris (450)

12.40 Cardinal directions for optic flow
D C Burr, J Ross, D Badcock (82)

13.00 General discussion

13.10 LUNCH

15.00-16.30 POSTER SESSION A - Hall

Colour, lightness, and brightness
Comparative aspects of visual perception and hemispheric differences
Learning, memory, and development
Motion integration and motion mechanisms
Imaging, physiological, and clinical studies
Space, shape, and depth

16.30 COFFEE BREAK

PAPER SESSION: Learning, memory, and development

Chair: V Walsh

17.00 Texture cues to depth can be learned from stereoscopic depth
J Hillis, F Domini, M S Banks (299)

17.15 Motion perception and perceptual learning studied by magnetic stimulation
L Stewart, L Battelli, V Walsh, A Cowey (287)

17.30 A study on visuo-spatial working memory
W X Schneider, M-B Wesenick, H Deubel, C Bundesen (410)

17.45 Solid vs. line-end inducers in the recognition and transfer of learning for
subjective contours
M Bross (258)

18.00 Processing of shapes, colours, and letters in short-term visual memory
J Ninio, E Mizraji (210)

18.15 A theory of context in perceptual categorisation
M Juettner, I Rentschler (481)


18.30 Vision, and the vividness, and latency, of visual images
A J Reeves, A D'Angiulli (289)

18.45 Motion sensitivity in infant and amblyopic macaque monkeys
L Kiorpes, C Tang, J A Movshon (490)

19.00 Perceptual learning of visual stability in a virtual environment using conflicting head and retinal motion information
K Takahara, K Okajima, M Takase (348)

19.15 Navigation in environments with four spatial dimensions
G D Seyranian, P Colantoni, M D'Zmura (583)


MONDAY 23 AUGUST - Oceania room

PAPER SESSION: Imaging, physiological, and clinical studies I

Chair: D Spinelli

8.30 The role of visual feedback in the performance of a fine motor task versus a
ballistic movement task for Alzheimer's disease patients
S Hsieh, M Dick, J Bricker, R Andel (342)

8.45 Figure-ground segregation: fMRI and EEG correlates
M Fahle, G Skiera, T Quenzer (153)

9.00 Object selective cortical responses during slit viewing
C Yin, S Shimojo, C Moore, S Engel (516)

9.15 Priming and 'noise' in switching between visual search tasks: a TMS study
L Battelli, A Ellison, V Walsh, A Cowey (323)

9.30 Physiological basis of backwards masking in scene recognition
J Rieger, K R Gegenfurtner, C Braun, H Preissl, H H Bülthoff (208)

9.45 Neocortical areas underlying mental rotation and size constancy
M W Greenlee, T Mulack, R M Rutschmann (466)

10.00 Mental rotation vs. invariant features in object perception from different viewpoints: an fMRI study
J Vanrie, E Beatse, J Wagemans, S Sunaert, P Van Hecke (360)

10.15 Functional neuroanatomy of object categorisation at different levels of
abstraction
H Op de Beeck, E Beatse, J Wagemans, S Sunaert, P Van Hecke (36)


10.30 COFFEE BREAK

PAPER SESSION: Imaging, physiological, and clinical studies II

Chair: A Johnston

11.00 Integration of location and colour in prefrontal cortex
V Ferrera, J Cohen, B Lee (222)

11.15 Delayed maturation in the ventral visual stream in humans
I Kovacs, A Feher, J Hara, W R Shankle, J H Fallon (417)

11.30 VEPs to luminance contrast stimuli in the attended portion of the visual
field have shorter latencies
D Spinelli, F Di Russo (174)

11.45 Different responses of magno and parvo systems to sinusoidal gratings in
noise backgrounds
Y E Shelepin, A Harauzov, D Pronin, N Krasilnikov (405)

12.00 Temporal integration effect on evoked potential latency and reaction time
M Mihaylova, A Vassilev (197)

12.15 Temporal selective attention: behavioural and electrophysiological correlates
C Miniussi, A C Nobre (452)

12.30 Visual recognition of item-colour associations in amnesic patients and controls
N Hunkin, L Wallis, K Greenwood (488)

12.45 Effect of contour deletion on the responses of inferior temporal neurons
G Kovács, G Sáry, K Köteles, Z Chadaide, J Fiser, G Benedek, I Biederman (58)


13.00 LUNCH

15.00-16.30 POSTER SESSION A - Hall

Colour, lightness, and brightness
Comparative aspects of visual perception and hemispheric differences
Learning, memory, and development
Motion integration and motion mechanisms
Imaging, physiological, and clinical studies
Space, shape, and depth

16.30 COFFEE BREAK

PAPER SESSION: Space, shape, and depth

Chair: B J Rogers

17.00 Pappus in optical space
J Koenderink, A van Doorn, A Kappers, J Todd (46)

17.15 Distance perception mediated through nested contact relations among surfaces
J Cheng Meng, H A Sedgwick (292)

17.30 Which natural textures convey 3-D shape
A Li, Q Zaidi (427)

17.45 An analysis of several stereoscopic illusions
M Banks (273)

18.00 Comparing the resolution of extra-retinal information about distance and direction
E Brenner, J B J Smeets (72)

18.15 On the birth of perspective
C W Tyler (275)


PAPER SESSION: Optic flow

Chair: W Warren

18.30 Vection depends on an interaction between retinal and extraretinal factors
A Wertheim, T Mergner, A Rumberger (79)

18.45 Estimating time-to-contact from complex retinal flow
C D Giachritsis, M G Harris (333)

19.00 A statistical process model of movement in depth detection
E R Boer, R Gray (137)

19.15 The role of lifetime, velocity, and perspective cues in the perception of
radial flowfields
M von Grünau, M-D Cisneros (320)


TUESDAY 24 AUGUST - Saturnia room

8.30-13.10 SYMPOSIUM: Articulation and lightness perception
(Organiser: J Schirillo)


Chair: S K Shevell

8.30 Articulation of achromatic scenes (Keynote lecture)

J A Schirillo (152)

9.00 Articulation and scene statistics
E H Adelson (573)

9.20 Luminance gradients and colour appearance
T Agostini, A Galmonte (574)

9.40 Colour constancy in the Mondrian world: illuminant adjustment under varying
image surfaces
K-H Bäuml (464)

10.00 When does increased chromatic variability enhance colour constancy
F W Cornelissen, E Brenner (575)

10.20 Relational colour constancy in colorimetrically extreme images
D H Foster, S M C Nascimento (532)


10.40 COFFEE BREAK

Chair: E H Adelson

11.00 Articulation and the strength of framework
A Gilchrist (576)

11.20 Is lightness induction a pictorial illusion? A defense of a Helmholtzian
explanation
A Logvinenko (577)

11.40 'Discounting the Illuminant': what it means, how to do it
L T Maloney, J N Yang (479)

12.00 A role of perceptual organisation in colour perception
S K Shevell, J A Schirillo (194)

12.20 Measurements of object and illuminant identification
Q Zaidi, B Khang (507)

12.40 The role of cues to depth and scene articulation in colour constancy
J M Kraft, D H Brainard (543)

13.00 General discussion

13.10 LUNCH

15.00-19.40 SYMPOSIUM: Comparative aspects of visual perception
(Organiser: G Vallortigara)


Chair: G Vallortigara

15.00 Differential use of the right and left eye (and ear) by vertebrates other
than mammals (Keynote lecture)

R J Andrew (579)

15.20 Acquisition of a people concept vs. use of simple features
U Aust, M Loidolt, L Huber (73)

15.40 Visual discrimination and perception of mimicry patterns in pigeons
W H Dittrich (580)

16.00 Minimisation of modal contours: a cross species strategy
B Forkman, G Vallortigara (54)

16.20 Head orientation and the visual control of locomotion in birds
P Green (38)

16.40 Squirrel monkeys can perceive subjective contours, amodal completion, and transparency
Y Nagasaka, Y Osada (317)


17.00 COFFEE BREAK

Chair: R J Andrew

17.30 Colour vision in domestic chicks
D Osorio (218)

17.50 Patterns of visual lateralisation in pigeons: seeing what is there and beyond
H Prior, O Güntürkün (370)

18.10 Discrimination of point-light animation sequences (Johansson's biological motion displays) by newborn chicks
L Regolin, L Tommasi, G Vallortigara (150)

18.30 Perception of shape from shading in the chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes)

M Tomonaga (92)

18.50 Unusual view test in pigeons
S Watanabe (298)

19.10 Perception of biological motion by newly-hatched chicks and quail
M K Yamaguchi, K Fujita (347)

19.30 General discussion

TUESDAY 24 AUGUST - Oceania room

PAPER SESSION: Motion integration I

Chair: J A Movshon

8.30 Stronger motion signals from grouped isoluminant colour gratings than luminance-defined gratings revealed in motion capture
T Watanabe, L Lide'n, I Mukai, E Mingolla (472)

8.45 Are moving objects processed faster than flashes?
R Nijhawan, B Khurana, K Watanabe, S Shimojo (519)

9.00 The bigger they are the slower they move: The effect of field size on speed discrimination
R Snowden (116)

9.15 The process of integrating directional information across speeds
C Bill, O J Braddick (201)

9.30 Linking component motion across space: only for specific forms
J Lorenceau, D Alais, S Georges, P Series (207)

9.45 Motion perception is not switched off during saccades
E Castet, G Masson (351)

10.00 Linear mechanisms and motion sharpening
A Pääkkönen, M J Morgan (305)

10.15 Local integration of features for the computation of pattern direction by
neurons in macaque area MT
N Majaj, M Carandini, J A Movshon (454)


10.30 COFFEE BREAK

PAPER SESSION: Motion integration II

Chair: T Watanabe

11.00 Combining components to predict perceived pattern motion
L Bowns (127)

11.15 Coherent global motion from sequences of independent Glass
patterns
J Ross, D Badcock (167)

11.30 Is segmentation of two motion-defined surfaces aided by differences in the spatial characteristics of the pattern elements?
I Steffens, A T Smith (59)


PAPER SESSION: Motion mechanisms

Chair: M Georgeson

11.45 A simple stimulus distinguishes Reichardt detectors from motion energy mechanisms
C Clifford, M Ibbotson (30)

12.00 Vision out of the corner of the eye
J D Mollon, B C Regan (585)

12.15 Isoluminant chromatic motion perception: Defining the mechanism
Z-L Lu, L A Lesmes, G Sperling (341)

12.30 Temporal response to luminance and contrast modulation: second-order vision is as quick as first-order
A Schofield, M Georgeson (249)

12.45 Computational modelling of interleaved first- and second-order motion sequences and translating 3f + 4f beat patterns
C Benton, P McOwan, A Johnston (251)


13.00 LUNCH

PAPER SESSION: Colour, lightness, and brightness I

Chair: S Westland

14.45 Kardos
A Gilchrist, D Todorovic (327)

15.00 Almost perfect colour constancy
D H Foster, K Amano, S M C Nascimento (431)

15.15 Statistical analyses of natural and man-made surface spectral reflectances
J Shaw, S Westland, M G A Thompson (206)

15.30 A computational colour vision model for colour appearance calculations
E Moorhead, P Ward (172)

15.45 How powerful is the specularity cue in surface colour perception?
J N Yang, L Maloney, M Landy (262)

16.00 Integration regions of chromatic and luminance mechanisms in a hyperacuity task
L Ruttiger, B Lee (223)

16.15 The components of chromatic and achromatic colours
O da Pos, P Pretto, S C Masin (355)

16.30 Does grain-size affect our perception of spectral content in coloured textures?
S Te Pas, J J Koenderink, A M L Kappers, M Defauwes (330)

16.45 Detecting the presence of a 'non-normal' illumination: cues based on second-order statistic of colour codes
R Mausfeld, J Andres (12)


17.00 COFFEE BREAK

PAPER SESSION: Colour, lightness, and brightness II

Chair: D H Foster

17.30 Time course of adaptation for colour appearance and discrimination
O Rinner, K R Gegenfurtner (209)


17.45 High-spatial-frequency tritanopia
S J Hutchinson, A D Logvinenko (236)

18.00 Colour naming and cognition: two tests of the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis
E Özgen, M Pilling, I Davies (377)

18.15 Discriminability of brightness as a function of intermediate probe distance
P R Snoeren, M J H Puts, C M M de Weert (221)

18.30 Lightness from early-vision spatial comparisons, mid-vision junctions or
high-vision perceptions: the debate part I
A D Logvinenko, J McCann (83)

18.45 Lightness from early-vision spatial comparisons, mid-vision junctions or
high-vision perceptions: the debate part II
J McCann, A D Logvinenko (84)

19.00 Illumination intensity and field size determine pattern of lightness errors
S Zdravkovic, A Gilchrist (508)

19.15 Further evidence for an anchoring account of simultaneous lightness contrast
E Economou, M Donnaruma, A Gilchrist (326)


20.30 SOCIAL DINNER

WEDNESDAY 25 AUGUST - Saturnia room

8.30-13.15 SYMPOSIUM: Seen vs unseen: new issues in the psychophysics of decision
(Organiser: A Gorea)


Chair: J Davidoff

8.30 Introduction to the symposium
A Gorea (595)

8.45 How invisible properties of a prime determine the visible ones of a mask
M H Herzog, L M Parish, C Koch (337)

9.10 Unconscious priming of object change
D Fernandez-Duque, I M Thornton (357)

9.35 Divided attention and neglect: an electrophysiological and psychophysical
study
P Angelelli, D Spinelli (217)


10.00 Prolonged inattentional blindness for a visually distinctive, dynamic object
S Most, D Simons, B Scholl (476)


10.25 COFFEE BREAK

Chair: A Gorea

11.00 Maximisation of information in binocular rivalry
Y Tamori, K Mogi (401)

11.25 The bare bones of object recognition: implications from a case of object
recognition impairment
J Davidoff, E K Warrington (28)

11.50 Do normal observers hallucinate contrast signals?
M J Morgan, C Chubb (578)

12.15 Transcranial magnetic stimulation of occipital cortex in a subject with
blindsight and a subject with ocular blindness
A C Cowey, V Walsh (219)

12.40 Decision-criteria are regulated by a unique "anchor" in a multi-stimulus
environment
A Gorea, D Sagi (447)


13.05 General discussion

13.15 LUNCH

15.00-16.30 POSTER SESSION B - Hall

Eye movements
Faces
Illusory contours, amodal completion, and occlusion
Illusions
Natural scenes and objects
Neural networks
Binocular vision and stereo
Contrast
Attention and search
Perceptual organisation

16.30 COFFEE BREAK

PAPER SESSION: Illusory contours, amodal completion, and occlusion

Chair: E Mingolla

17.00 Contour synthesis in moving displays
B Anderson (64)

17.15 Some investigations at the edge of amodal completion
R van Lier (145)

17.30 Temporal limits in attentional tracking of an invisible moving
object
J Elfar, I Lee, J Assad (430)

17.45 The role of flicker and motion in the perception of illusory contours
B Spehar, C W G Clifford (395)


PAPER SESSION: Contrast

Chair: M J Morgan

18.00 Flanker effects on contrast discrimination
B Zenger, C Koch, J Braun (266)

18.15 The role of target contrast in the Pulfrich stereophenomenon
B J Rogers, J Moss (510)

18.30 Orientation discrimination is improved both by collinear and
non collinear flanking stimuli
M J Morgan, L Parkes (562)

18.45 No evidence of lateral contrast gain control among non-Fourier
contrast-modulated components
P Laurinen, L Olzak (261)


WEDNESDAY 25 AUGUST - Oceania room

PAPER SESSION: Eye movements

Chair: P Inchingolo

8.30 The time-course of saccadic suppression
M R Diamond, J Ross, M C Morrone (545)

8.45 Blinking or blanking: What helps against saccadic suppression of displacement?
H Deubel, W X Schneider, B Bridgeman (527)

9.00 Strategic control of eye movements in multi-target visual search
S Mannan, T L Hodgsopn, C Kennard (541)

9.15 Topological structure allows for fast search with eye movements
V Brown, J M Findlay, P T Quinlan (553)

9.30 Absolute and relative spatial positions are judged independently
F W Cornelissen, E Brenner (80)

9.45 Effects of image rotation and scaling on eye movement pattern
D Chernyak, L Stark (276)

10.00 Effects of a residual signal of saccadic eye movement on perceived direction of visual motion
C Lee, J Park (309)

10.15 Simulated roll and simulated pursuit affect perceived heading differently
J Beintema, A V van den Berg (138)


10.30 COFFEE BREAK

PAPER SESSION: Illusions

Chair: O da Pos

11.00 Exploring the causes of the Kanizsa amodal shrinkage
H Ono, E Gonzales, S Ohtsuka, M Steinbach (19)

11.15 The (illusory) perception of visual detail: texture and faces
F Durgin (474)


11.30 Illusory deformation of moving contours
J M Zanker, T Quenzer, M Fahle (529)

11.45 The role of depth and 1/f dynamics in resolving perceptual ambiguity
D Aks (40)

12.00 Representational momentum in Michotte's 'Launching Effect' and 'Tool Effect' paradigms
T L Hubbard, A Favretto (296)

12.15 Visually induced disorientation
I P Howard, G Hu, H Jenkin (62)

12.30 The unconscious sensorimotor visual map
B Bridgeman (502)

12.45 Perceived asynchronies of simultaneous changes along multiple feature dimensions
D Rose (426)

13.00 ShowTime: A QuickTime-based infrastructure for vision research displays
A Watson, J Hu (514)


13.15 LUNCH

15.00-16.30 POSTER SESSION B - Hall

Eye movements
Faces
Illusory contours, amodal completion, and occlusion
Illusions
Natural scenes and objects
Neural networks
Binocular vision and stereo
Contrast
Attention and search
Perceptual organisation

PAPER SESSION: Binocular vision and stereo

Chair: H Ono

17.00 Reversed stereo depth and motion direction with anticorrelated 1-D noise
J C A Read, R A Eagle (459)

17.15 Binocular motion signals: combined but not perceived
J Harris, S Rushton (398)

17.30 The dichoptic perception of achromatic transparency
R Kasrai, F A Kingdom, T M Peters (265)

17.45 Conflicting accommodation can reduce the amount of depth scaling from vergence and differential perspective cues
M Lipson, B J Rogers (497)

18.00 Evidence for polar analysis in binocular and motion parallax displays
W Gerbino, M Cammaroto (590)

18.15 Stereo-depth aliasing
M Edwards, C Schor (115)

18.30 Adaptation to shape, not disparity
W Adams, F Domini, M Banks (295)

18.45 Monocular symmetry is neither necessary nor sufficient for dichoptic symmetry perception
P Wenderoth (29)



Saturnia room

19:00 BUSINESS MEETING

THURSDAY 26 AUGUST - Saturnia room

8.30-12.30 SYMPOSIUM: Motion transparency
(Organiser: F Verstraten)


Chair: F Verstraten

8.30 Questions about motion transparency
O J Braddick (565)

9.00 Perceived motion direction and speed of locally-balanced stimuli
W Curran, O J Braddick (133)

9.20 Motion transparency of complex gratings depends on phase congruency of Fourier components
M Del Viva (566)

9.40 MT cell responses to transparent motion patterns predict misperception of
metameric stimuli
S Treue, K Hol, H J Rauber (567)

10.10 Multiple processing of motion energy in different directions and its relation to induced motion and motion capture
I Murakami (568)


10.30 COFFEE BREAK

Chair: O Braddick

11.00 Can non-motion cues contribute to the segmentation of different motions?
R J Snowden (569)

11.20 Motion transparency and its aftereffect(s)

F A J Verstraten, M J van der Smagt, W A van de Grind (570)

11.40 Attentional selection in transparent motion
M W von Grunau, M Iordanova, A Bertone (571)

12.00 Modelling motion transparency (Keynote lecture)

A Johnston (572)

12.20 General discussion

12.30 LUNCH

PAPER SESSION: Biological motion

Chair: M C Morrone

14.30 Biological motion processing without attention
I M Thornton, R A Rensink, M Shiffrar (169)

14.45 Spatial summation of complex motion
P Neri, M C Morrone, D C Burr (256)

15.00 Contributions of facial and head motion in the interpretation of expression
F E Pollick, H Hill, A Folwaczny, G Gray, R Holmes, S Love (504)

15.15 Point-light walker yields greater MEG gamma activity than scrambled or inverted figures
M Pavlova, W Lutzenberger, A Sokolov, H Preissl, C Braun, N Birbaumer (239)

15.30 The perception of affect from point light displays of simple arm movements
H Paterson, F E Pollick, A Calder, A J Sanford (469)


PAPER SESSION: Faces

Chair: P Thompson

15.45 An illusion of facial expression perception in Japanese Noh masks
M Lyons, R Campbell, A Plante, M Coleman, M Kamachi, S Akamatsu (354)

16.00 Looking for a face in a crowd
N Brady, M Lawrie (482)

16.15 That wide-eyed look: estimating interpupillary distance
P Thompson (143)

16.30 Unconscious perception and retrieval of faces imaged with H2150 PET
E Turi Nagy, K Henke, B Weber, T Berthold, A Buck (555)

16.45 The dynamics of facial expression judgements
M Kamachi, S Yoshikawa, J Gyoba, S Akamatsu (356)


THURSDAY, 26 AUGUST - Oceania room

PAPER SESSION: Attention and search I

Chair: R Nijhawan

8.30 Attentional limits across the elements of a complex visual display
K Jordan, R S McCann, E Ford, D Reduta, T Tran (346)

8.45 A saliency model for search for motion or colour
R Rosenholtz (522)

9.00 Searching for patterns in noise
P Verghese, S McKee (495)

9.15 Attentional processing of geometric figures
R Rensink (523)

9.30 Higher-level summing circuits mediate orientation-based visual search tasks
L Olzak, K A Laack (114)

9.45 Feature information is extracted independently
E Blaser, Z Pylyshyn (515)

10.00 The role of attention in the flash-lag effect
B Khurana, K Watanabe, R Nijhawan (524)

10.15 Covert attention improves orientation discrimination across the contrast
sensitivity function
M Carrasco, C Talgar (483)


10.30 COFFEE BREAK

PAPER SESSION: Attention and search II

Chair: M Carrasco

11.00 The perceptual amplification of attention to colour
G Sperling, E Blaser, Z-L Lu (344)

11.15 Withdrawal of attention has greater effects on adaptation to high spatial,
low temporal, frequencies
J Harris, M Georgiades (311)

11.30 Reverse Stroop interference effect
C M M de Weert, P R Snoeren, M J Puts, S F te Pas (121)

11.45 The effect of attention on orientation thresholds for location and discrimination of oriented targets amongst vertical and tilted distractors
S Baldassi, D C Burr (247)

12.00 Visual search for modally and amodally-completed regions
E D Freeman, G Davis, J Driver (491)

12.15 Form coherence: a measure of extra-striate pattern processing
O Braddick, M H Lin, J Atkinson, J O'Brien, J Wattam-Bell,
R Turner (179)


12.30 LUNCH

PAPER SESSION: Perceptual organisation

Chair: T Troscianko

14.30 Neural circuits for perceptual grouping
E Mingolla, W D Ross, S Grossberg (255)

14.45 Perceptual organisation of Gabor lattices: relations between Gestalt principles of grouping-by-proximity and grouping-by-similarity
J Wagemans, P Claessens, K Delbarge, A Eycken, M Kubovy (140)


15.00 Transformational apparent motion in the volume domain
P U Tse (204)

15.15 Competition between static and dynamic organisations in apparent motion
S Gepshtein, M Kubovy (335)

PAPER SESSION: Natural scenes and objects

Chair: J Wagemans

15.30 Perceived speed of urban traffic
T Troscianko, P Wright, D Wright (403)

15.45 Perception of the illumination of a natural scene by man and machine
P Mamassian, J Herault (381)

16.00 Local and global coherence in natural images
M Thomson (512)

16.15 Categorisation of complex natural images in extreme peripheral vision
S Thorpe, K Gegenfurtner, M Fabre-Thorpe, H H Bülthoff (238)

16.30 Counting features
D Pelli (563)

16.45 The 'patchwok engine' II: Possible applications of local symmetry in early vision
G Van Tonder, Y Ejima (349)



POSTERS A (displayed on Monday 23 and Tuesday 24)



Colour, lightness, and brightness (A001-A034)



A001 Do chromatic sensitivity thresholds reveal red-green dominance in grating detection tasks?
J L Nieves Gómez, E M Valero Benito, J A García, J Romero Mora (60)

A002 Depth reversal of Mach's book and lightness constancy
S Nozawa (69)

A003 Measurement of colour discrimination ellipse for surface colour with texture
M Kawasumi, K Suzuki, M Yamakawa (70)

A004 'Transmode' in colour appearance and change in blackness of colour stimuli under various luminance conditions
T Hasegawa, S Kamiseki (101)

A005 Effect of visual sensitivity change on colour constancy
I Kuriki, K Uchikawa (192)

A006 The effect of luminance gradients on lightness constancy
T Agostini, A Soranzo, A Galmonte (536)

A007 Colour constancy and the AMBEGUJAS phenomenon
S S Bergström, K-A Gustafsson, T Jakobsson (213)

A008 Accuracy in heterochromatic luminance matching
M Puts, S te Pas, P Snoeren, C M M de Weert (229)

A009 AMLA: A quick psychophysical method to measure CRT achromatic contrast without sophisticated instrumentation
I Vitini, J Lillo, J Collado, A Caballero (232)

A010 Temporal integration of blue-on-yellow luminance increments and decrements in human vision
M Zlatkova, A Vassilev (278)

A011 Macular dichromats chromatic space: basic categories and partial asymmetries
J Lillo, I Davies, I Vitini, A Caballero (324)

A012 Colour affects motion
K Sakata (352)

A013 Colour signal constraints for the perception of transparency
C Ripamonti, S Westland (362)

A014 Discrimination games for colour categorisation
E Myin, L Steels, M Politis, J De Winter (365)

A015 Orientation selectivity of opponent-colour channels
P Le Callet, A Saadane, D Barba (376)


A016 Colour saturation constancy: effects of illuminant changes
V Viliunas, A Svegzda, R Stanikunas (415)

A017 Scoring efficiency on the Farnsworth-Munsell 100-Hue test after brain damage
R Lukauskiene, K Gurevicius, R Ruseckaite, V Viliunas (416)

A018 Displacement colour constancy versus illuminant colour constancy
K Amano, D H Foster (429)

A019 Detection and localisation of lightness changes under simultaneous illumination changes
S Plet, W Gerbino (451)

A020 Colour constancy in the primate outer retina: A simulation study
W Moeckel, A Buese (458)

A021 A linear model of reconstruction surface appearance under changes of illumination
M Jurkutaitis (463)

A022 No effect of high illuminance on dichromats colour naming
D Rodriguez, J Lillo, I Davies (465)

A023 Discrimination ellipses of deuteranomalous observers plotted in personalised colour diagrams
V Bonnardell, M Valero Eva (475)

A024 Optimal quantisation of colour image
L Bedat, A Saadane, D Barba (528)

A025 Photoreception as a semiconductor-optoelectronic process
G Demirchoglyan (542)

A026 On continuity perception in brightness change
G B Vicario, E Zambianchi (67)

A027 Luminance adaptation level and processing time
D Pins (77)

A028 A new effect of space brightness enhancement
D Zavagno (89)

A029 Terminal brightness perception in continuous brightness change
O Orlandi, G B Vicario (146)

A030 Achromatic compositions
D Todorovic (269)

A031 When blurred is better than sharp
H C Owens, S Westland, S M Wuerger (186)

A032 An investigation of a prior exposure effect in lightness
V Annan, A Gilchrist (520)

A033 Legibility in achromatic and chromatic car instrumentation
A Toffetti, T Agostini, D Bertolino, A Galmonte, W Gerbino, C Ripamonti (592)

A034 Application of a computational model of brightness perception in
patients with cerebral lesions
G Lado, M de Mattiello, A Tonti (546)


Comparative aspects of visual perception and hemispheric differences (A035-A042)


A035 Estimation of size and distance of moving targets in frogs and toads
V Bastakov (329)

A036 Pigeons classify human faces by attending to their surface properties
L Huber, N F Troje, M Loidolt, U Aust (124)

A037 Perception of orientation: A lesion study in monkeys
A Muzur, P P Battaglini, C Galletti, P Fattori, E Daprati, A Brovelli (193)

A038 Hemispheric differences in image repetition effect
T Beteleva (199)

A039 A possible interhemispheric asymmetry of sustained and transient channels in vision
W Lejnin, A Okhotskaya, O Levashov (533)

A040 Ecology and vision: comparative analysis of detour behaviour in Mediterranean Herring Gull (larus cachinnans) and other steppe-living birds and passeriformes
P Zucca, F Antonelli, S D'Aronco, G Vallortigara (544)

A041 Dissociation of spatial-orienting between left and right hemispheres
Y Tanaka (468)

A042 Right and left hemisphere modes of analysis
R Andrew (122)


Learning, memory, and development (A043-A057)


A043 Playing the Motion Game improves reading rate but not as a consequence of greater contrast sensitivity
T Lawton, S Schein (584)

A044 Transfer effects in ratings of visual velocity
J C Baird, A Sokolov, M Pavlova (485)

A045 Learning higher-order statistics of simple shape-sequences
J Fiser, R Aslin (254)

A046 Effects of additional information on performance for acquiring cognitive map through exploration of virtual environment with egocentric view
M Ohmi (117)

A047 Spatial frequency interactions in the human visual system at the resolution limit: practice effects
V Bondarko, M Danilova (119)

A048 Vision function in old age and its change over time
M Schneck, J Brabyn, G Haegerstrom-Portnoy, L Lott (492)

A049 Effects of background luminance on representational momentum for lightness
A Favretto, T L Hubbard, M A Brandimonte, W Gerbino (301)

A050 Gollin-test on noisy backgrounds
N Chernova, S Muravyova, Y Shelepin, N Foreman, Z Tatieva, V Chichman, S Pronin (315)

A051 Exploring perception in humans inhabiting simple virtual environments
G Stojanov, W Gerbino (372)

A052 Practice and transfer effects in the detection of embedded figures
I Ludwig, W Pieper (25)

A053 Visual object learning as a function of polysensory prior knowledge
E Osman, M Juettner, I Rentschler (489)

A054 Memory for angular velocity: a psychophysical study
F Giulianini, L Vaina, S A Beardsley (438)

A055 Inhibitory zone size, crowding, and visual acuity in children
V Chihman, L Semenov, N Chernova, V Bondarko (106)

A056 Positional uncertainty and children's single word reading
F Westerhuis, N Wilbrink, M Van Ingelghem, E Vandenbussche (457)

A057 Cognitive development for normal and visually disabled children
A Nevskaya, L Leushina, V Bondarko (108)


Motion integration and motion mechanisms (A058-A096)


A058 The computation of occlusion for motion perception
J McDermott, Y Weiss, E H Adelson (281)

A059 Motion integration for tracking eye movements: the fast and the slow of it
G Masson, Y Rybarczyk, E Castet, D Mestre (414)

A060 Overestimation of apparent speed reveals dynamics of long-range lateral interactions
S Georges, P Series, D Alais, J Lorenceau (368)

A061 Locomotor pointing with expanding patterns
K Chanderli, B Baumberger, M Flückiger (413)

A062 Sensitivity to average speed depends on spatial layout
M Hogervorst, R A Eagle (486)

A063 Persistence does not influence the perceived location of a flash relative to a moving stimulus
D Whitney, I Murakami, P Cavanagh (160)

A064 Contrast-dependence of the extent of motion integration
A Goodwin, S Wuerger, M Bertamini (104)

A065 A model of speed change identification in successive motion
L Likova (321)

A066 The non-visible persistence of position signals
B Krekelberg, M Lappe (57)

A067 3-D curvature contrast effect in motion-defined stimuli
A M L Kappers, S F te Pas (202)

A068 Is motion processing unitary?
W Simpson (23)

A069 The accuracy and confidence of movement discrimination
K Kreegipuu, J Allik (55)

A070 Phenomenal identity in visual field: the Ternus effect
E Zambianchi, G B Vicario (66)

A071 Suprathreshold auditory motion affects perceived visual motion
D Connah, G Meyer, S M Wuerger (85)

A072 Depth reversal of a random-dot hollow-face on a motion-parallax display when its dot-density is varied
K Sakurai, R Miyakoshi (91)

A073 The motion aftereffect caused by adaptation to a moving disk with a drifting grating
M Ishihara (93)

A074 Behaviour of drivers approaching road tunnels
B Crisman, S Fonzari, R Roberti (540)

A075 Configurational effect on speed perception
H-J Kim (97)

A076 Effect of spatial configuration on motion integration
N Takahashi, R Groner (158)

A077 A new approach to the temporal constraints for apparent motion
R Kuriki (168)

A078 Attentional modulation of motion perception
C Caudek, R Delbello, M A Brandimonte (175)

A079 Monocularity and motion aftereffects
N Wade, C Feresin, M Swanston (212)

A080 Coherent motion supported by attention evokes stronger MEG gamma responses
A Sokolov, W Lutzenberger, M Pavlova, H Preissl, C Braun, N Birbaumer (233)

A081 Reaction times for motion onset of luminance and chromatic gratings
B Corsale, D C Burr (252)

A082 Interstimulus interval luminance and the Ternus display
A Ma Wyatt, C W G Clifford, P Wenderoth (300)

A083 Sensitivity to deviations in slant and tilt for surfaces displayed in structure-from-motion
N Bocheva, M L Braunstein (328)

A084 Relationship between motion transparency and colour transparency of equi-luminance colour plaids
K Okajima, A Kikuchi, M Takase (340)

A085 Amblygrams: images revealed by motion blur
F Gosselin (404)

A086 Simultaneous masking by plaids and gratings: threshold elevation and threshold facilitation
D J Holmes, T S Meese (408)

A087 A new illusion of relative motion
B Pinna, G Brelstaff (418)

A088 Velocity perception is affected by the Ebbinghaus illusion
S Bettella, M Pavlova, A Sokolov, G B Vicario (419)

A089 Bandwidth characteristics of feature tracking motion mechanisms
M Del Viva, M C Morrone (437)

A090 Effects of remote motion on the visual sensitivity of LGN cells
F Felisberti, A Derrington (456)

A091 Motion and depth modulate the hierarchical organisation effect
M L Martelli (517)

A092 Perceived depth of a random dot stereogram in oscillatory motion
H Shore, M Shore (550)

A093 Velocity matches support a suppression-from-depth model of motion integration
F Mosca, N Bruno (556)

A094 Temporal integration of optic flow
L Santoro, D C Burr (561)

A095 Heading detection from optic flow with roll and pitch components
M Hanada, Y Ejima (274)

A096 Pleasentness of 3D motions: effects of motion direction
T Kinoshita, M Ichikawa (380)


Imaging, physiological, and clinical studies (A097-A128)


A097 Which image features are selected by neurons of the cat primary visual cortex
I A Shevelev, N A Lazareva, U Eysel, K Jirmann, A S Tikhomirov, G A Sharaev, R V Novikova (8)

A098 Simulation of the dynamical behaviour of neuron activity
I Bogacheva, V Kucher, N Scherbakova, G Novikov (131)

A099 Visual discrimination learning characteristics in monkeys with bilateral prefrontal cortex lesions
I Chueva, K Dudkin, F Makarov (225)

A100 A model of simple-cell contrast processing and normalisation in the mammalian visual cortex
J S Lauritzen, D J Tolhurst (392)

A101 Cell segmentation with local adaptive thresholding
D Anoraganingrum (24)

A102 The pupillary light reflex in Alzheimer's disease
A Tales, S R Butler, T Troscianko, G Wilcock (423)

A103 Does spatial frequency spectrum of singular TV frames affect VEP's?
S Pronin, A Harauzov, Y Shelepin, S Muravyova (313)

A104 Functional imaging of brain areas involved in the wide-field visual processing of continuous linear self-motion
J Beer, F Previc, C Blakemore, M Liotti (537)

A105 Epilepsy related visual disorders
R Ruseckaite (129)

A106 The relationship between sparseness and kurtosis of simple-cell codes
B Willmore, D Tolhurst (391)

A107 Cognitive factors related to the Pokemon mass seizure incident in Japan
H Hibino, Y Sano (161)

A108 Thresholds of visual field changes in damage of chiasma opticum
B Mickiene, R Lukauskiene, A Tamasauskas, D Trumpaitiene, R Ruseckaite (421)

A109 Sensorimotor and cognitive development in twins with different visual status
I Blinnikova, E Sergienko (436)

A110 Prism adaptation after parietal lobe damage: a developmental singlecase study
S Zoia, G Pelamatti, S Jackson, E Isaacs (587)

A111 Impaired access to visual representations of animals: a constructional deficit
A Granŕ, L Girelli, F Gattinoni, C Semenza (588)

A112 A specific deficit for global processing of spatial structure
C Piccini, R Lauro-Grotto, M Del Viva, D C Burr (557)

A113 Asymmetry in visual system and myopia
A Sharipov, E Lvova (88)

A114 Psychophysical evidence for the role of an oscillatory (38-40-Hz) mechanism during visual feature-object coding
M Elliott, H Müller (105)

A115 Visual activity is under control of gaze direction in primate area V1
Y Trotter, S Celebrini (132)

A116 Selectivity of macaque inferior temporal neurons for shapes with different surface attributes
Z Chadaide, G Kovács, G Sáry, K Köteles, G Benedek (178)

A117 Structural organisation of visual projections in the cat cortical areas
M Pirtskhalaishvili (282)

A118 Long-range neuronal connections in cortical areas 17 and 18 of the cat
S Toporova, S Alexeenko, F Makarov (283)

A119 Digit-Stroop and cognitive interference: a psychophysical study preliminary to fMRI
F Patria, G Committeri, G Coriale, R Daini, S Pitzalis, J Sanes (367)

A120 Spatio-temporal dynamics of long-range interactions in a model of primary visual cortex
P Seričs, J Lorenceau, S Georges, D Alais, Y Frégnac (375)

A121 Cortical areas underlying motion perception during Smooth Pursuit
M M Schira, H Kimmig, M W Greenlee (461)

A122 Evoked Potential source mislocalisation due to uncertainties in lesion type identification
F Vatta, P Bruno, P Inchingolo (477)

A123 Visual motion detection in man is governed by non-retinal mechanisms
M Hoffmann, M Bach (96)

A124 Coding of simultaneous and successive luminance contrast by component P120 of visual evoked potentials in humans
V Sidorova (234)

A125 Speed of processing in a go/no-go visual categorisation: low vs high stimulus complexity
M Fabre-Thorpe, D Fize, A Aubertin, S Thorpe (237)

A126 VEPs to dichoptic presentation of gratings and noise
A Harauzov, Y Shelepin, S Pronin, S Muravyova (319)

A127 Timing of colour and motion processing in human visual cortex: an evoked potential study
S Morand, G Thut, S A Gonzalez, C Miche (442)

A128 No evidence of parvocellular involvement to chromatic motion VEPs
R C Baraas, D J McKeefry, I J Murray, N R A Parry, J J Kulikowski (453)


Space, shape and depth (A129-A149)


A129 The role of spatial derivatives in visual coding of edges
G Barbieri, M Georgeson (147)

A130 Integration of oriented contours across space: specificity for luminance and contrast modulation
S Guest, M Georgeson (250)

A131 Noise is good: stochastic resonance and vision
D R R Smith (257)

A132 A quantitative model for perception of structure in stationary plaids
T Meese (467)

A133 Peripheral vision facilitates depth perception in the fovea
H Watanabe, K Matsuoka (302)

A134 When is a rectangle not a square? A viewpoint sensitive visual discrimination
E Watson, R Cowie (388)

A135 Laparoscopic performance is predicted by a test of pictorial perception: three replications, using novices and experienced surgeons
I Crothers, A G Gallagher, R Cowie, J-A Jordan, N McClure, J McGuigan (393)

A136 Luminance contrast rivalry and texture appearance
A Monot, D Paille, A Chiron, F Vienot (535)

A137 How many channels determine the RT to grating onset detection?
D Mitov (126)

A138 Spatial frequency discrimination of separated Gabor patches
M V Danilova, J D Mollon (166)

A139 Spatial frequency processing delays and temporal order judgements
E McSorley, J M Findlay (190)

A140 The effect of spatial frequency on visual discrimination of texture
V Gvozdenovic, S Markovic (246)

A141 Disappearing tricks: how the area of surrounding texture affects perceptual fading
A Welchman, J M Harris (277)

A142 The role of empty space in coding relative positions
I-P Chen, H-C Liu (361)

A143 Large systematic deviations in a visual parallelity task
R H Cuijpers, A M L Kappers, J J Koenderink (364)

A144 Recognition of narrow-pass filtered figures with complete and incomplete contour
S A Koskin, S V Pronin, Y E Shelepin (494)

A145 Influence of setting on shape perception
A van Doorn (45)

A146 Haptic feedback affects visual perception of surfaces
M Ernst, M S Banks, H H Bülthoff (187)

A147 Accuracy of slope perception affected by the psychophysical method
J Huber, I R L Davies (286)

A148 Qualitative curvature cues in viewpoint-invariant recognition of bent pins
S J Gilson, S S Baker, D H Foster (422)

A149 The influence of highlights on pictorial shape
P Doorshot, A Kappers, J Koenderink (445)


POSTER SESSION B (displayed on Wednesday 25 and Thursday 26)


Eye movements (B001-B011)


B001 Measuring saccade velocity using a dual colour LED flicker
S Ando (71)

B002 Temporal location of colliding objects more accurately perceived during smooth eye pursuit
T Freeman, H Davies (78)

B003 Localisations at the beginning of linear and circular movements
S Stork, J Müsseler, S Jordan (135)

B004 Dynamic visual perception and daily practice in dyslexia
F Burkhart, K Hartnegg (184)

B005 The Z-illusion: significance of eye movements in geometrical illusions
F Stuerzel, O da Pos, B Fischer (200)

B006 Spatio-temporal properties of saccades elicited by two dimensional target position
L Tereshchenko, Y Kuznetsov, A Latanov, V Shoulgovski (383)

B007 Pure efference-copy-driven smooth pursuit
C Lamontagne, F Gosselin, T R Pivik (406)

B008 Eye fixation points and landscape choice
A Risso, A Maciá (424)

B009 The functional structure of the Smooth Pursuit System
P Bruno, P Inchingolo (484)

B010 Different effects of a secondary task on saccades and anti-saccades
A Kristjansson, Y Chen, S Mednick, K Nakayama (496)

B011 Human saccades in search: second chances are worth a second peak
M Eckstein, B Beutter, L Stone (526)


Faces (B012-B029)


B012 The abnormal looking behaviour toward upright and upside-down faces in autistic children
J van der Geest, C Kemner, R Verbaten, H van Engeland (50)

B013 Perception of facial shape in foveal and peripheral vision
R Nasanen (154)

B014 Recognition of orientation filtered facial expressions
A Calder, M Lyons, I Christoffels, S Akamatsu (334)

B015 Mechanisms of visual working memory in monkeys: influence of cortical location of APV administration on the effect of modification of cortical glutamatergic structures
K Dudkin, I Chueva (103)

B016 The McGurk effect with upside down faces
P Heard (371)

B017 Top-down and bottom-up processes in 3D face perception: Psychophysics and computational model
T Papathomas, D DeCarlo (157)

B018 Asymmetry of visual evoked potentials in inferior temporal cortex and recognition of facial expressions
E S Mikhailova (163)

B019 Recognition of facial identity between child and adult face
K Masame (171)

B020 Identification of the human head by using band-pass filters
E Nakato, Y Nagata (183)

B021 Finding a face in a crowd - the effect of changes in internal and external facial features
J O Laarni (191)

B022 President Lincoln, I presume? How spatial quantisation influences face identification
R Scheuchenpflug (244)

B023 Categorical perception and semantic information processing of facial expressions
S Shibui, H Yamada, T Sato, K Shigemasu (270)

B024 Getting familiar with faces
A Angeli, V Bruce, H D Ellis (285)

B025 Fixations on facial lines play an important role in judgements of facial expressions
Y Osada, Y Nagasaka (307)

B026 Separation of human faces from background as an adaptive image processing
S Mironov, K Dudkin (316)

B027 A new technique for normalising performance across eccentricities and task complexity
D R Melmoth, H T Kukkonen, P M Makela, J M Rovamo (499)

B028 Why is face recognition so orientation-sensitive? Psychophysical evidence for an integrative model
A Schwaninger, F Mast (509)

B029 Seeing a face with an averted gaze re-orients one's visual attention
J Hietanen, M Lehtinen (558)


Illusory contours, amodal completion and occlusion (B030-B040)


B030 Local and global factors in the occlusion phenomena: the effect of context complexity
S Markovic (240)

B031 Kinetic illusory figures: interaction of information from accretion/deletion of surface texture and surface contours
P Bernardis, N Bruno (586)

B032 Illusory figures produced by dot inducers
F Purghé, T Agostini (539)

B033 Occlusion biases the percept of the geometric effect
P Grove, H Ono, H Kaneko (306)

B034 Kanizsa's amodal figure made with da Vinci stereopsis
S Ohtsuka, H Ono, M Suzuki (366)

B035 Tunnel effect with moving objects of different lengths
M Sinico (378)

B036 Shape perception of subjective contours in the Kanizsa square
I Kamada, K Oda (439)

B037 Tunnel effect without tunnel: an overestimation of trajectories
R Actis Grosso, G B Vicario (441)

B038 A new interpretation of amodal compression
K J Linnell, G W Humphreys (61)

B039 Construals of occlusion in the paintings of René Magritte
F Halper (242)

B040 Visual completion in 4-month-old infants
H Kawabata, J Gyoba, H Inoue, H Ohtusbo (345)


Illusions (B041-B055)


B041 The perceived patterns of the wagon wheel effect
K Suzuki (94)

B042 Dynamic localisation of equivalent current dipole (ECD) of alpha rhythm during visual illusions evoked by flicker with alpha frequency and the scanning hypothesis
L Bark, I Shevelev, R Kamenkovich, V Verkhlutov, V Konyshev, G Sharaev (10)

B043 The spiral illusion via the Café Wall illusion
A Kitaoka, T Sato (26)

B044 Composition of two illusory figures
A Bertulis, A Bulatov, V Strogonov (41)

B045 Contrast effect on illusion summation
A Bulatov, A Bertulis, V Strogonov (42)

B046 Temporal properties of depth filling-in
S Nishina, M Okada, M Kawato (470)

B047 Dynamic structural shape change in pantomime effect with binocular viewing
Q Zhang, M Idesawa (68)

B048 The Pulfrich effect in directionally ambiguous motion
H Ito (100)

B049 Influence of 2D image properties on the error distribution of dot localisation in affine reference frames
S Tibau, J Wagemans (136)

B050 The Scintillating Grid illusion as a function of retinal eccentricity
M Schrauf, E R Wist (214)

B051 Transient and sustained components of orientation illusions
S Smith, P Wenderoth, R van der Zwan (379)

B052 Stereo from Café wall distortion
G Brelstaff, R L Gregory, P Heard, B Pinna (399)

B053 A basic element to explain illusory geometrical distortion
F Chessa, B Pinna, G Brelstaff (412)

B054 Dynamic length changes of a rotating arc - evidence for interocular transfer
L Spillman, F Stuerzel, L T Maloney, A Geremek (434)

B055 On the Benussi effect in the kinetic field
G Parovel (471)


Natural scenes and objects (B056-B074)


B056 Information or representation? A case study in 3D symmetry discrimination
Z Liu, S Lawson, D Kersten (293)

B057 Matched filtering of chromatic images by the human visual system
N Krasilnikov, O Krasilnikova, Y Shelepin (107)

B058 Recognition in early visual attention
A Martinez (112)

B059 Foveal versus perifoveal information processing during scene perception
P M J van Diepen, G d'Ydewalle (32)

B060 Cardboard cut-out phenomenon in virtual reality environment
T Sato, M Kitazaki (331)

B061 The orthogonality assumption in comparing simple 3D-objects from different viewpoints
B Willems, A Laenen, J Wagemans (170)

B062 The interaction of size and level of categorisation
A Archambault, F Gosselin, P G Schyns (374)

B063 Judgements of structure in depth in cue-poor regions rely on independent heuristics, not logical propagation
R Cowie, C Hurle, S McNamara, A O'Hara, D Shaw (384)

B064 How children drive and map in a simulated environment
J Gaffié, B Baumberger, M Fluckiger, J E Cutting (396)

B065 A computational model predicts discrimination thresholds for morphed objects in natural scenes
C A Párraga, D J Tolhurst, T Troscianko (480)

B066 Nonuniform phase perturbations in natural images
R Summers, M Thomson (506)

B067 Measurements of the human visual system efficiency under threshold conditions
O Krasilnikova, N Krasilnikov, Y Shelepin (120)

B068 The effectiveness of different segregation cues in an object detection task
A Owen, A Bourret (203)

B069 Sparse cortical coding and object recognition
C Bell, I Moorhead, N Haig, C Ayre (177)

B070 Determinants of shape perception and object recognition
J Stone, D Buckley, F Moger (230)

B071 Rapid object recognition based on asynchronous feed-forward processing
A Delorme, R van Rullen, S Thorpe (433)

B072 Visual segmentation of 88 outlines of everyday objects: bottom-up versus top-down and contours versus shapes
J De Winter, J Wagemans (245)

B073 Factors in visual object recognition
M Vannucci, M P Viggiano (373)

B074 Using chimerae to probe part-whole relationships in the recognition of impoverished and detailed pictures
D McSherry, R Cowie (511)


Neural Networks (B075-B079)


B075 Emergence of complex cell properties in a neural network that maximises the sparseness of local energies
A Hyvarinen, P Hoyer (369)

B076 Neural network for perceptual grouping and lightness perception
D Domijan (51)

B077 Neural network for colour constancy
R Stanikunas, H Vaitkevicius (409)

B078 On a feedforward network model developing orientation selectivities in V1 cells
T Yamazaki, S Asakawa (350)

B079 A network model for response selection in the presence of noise
M Keil, G Cristobal (428)


Binocular vision and stereo (B080-B098)


B080 Blur and stereoscopic disparity interactions influence depth perception
G Mather, D R R Smith (235)

B081 Moving dichoptic plaids exhibit the missing-fundamental illusion
A Cobo-Lewis (260)

B082 Depth perception with a stereoscopic robot head
R Allison, M Jenkin (264)

B083 Differences in temporal integration for binocular lustre and stereopsis
W Pieper, I Ludwig (22)

B084 A new type of free fusing stereogram using binocularly unpaired wedge-shaped surface
M Idesawa, K Sudoh (74)

B085 The influence of first-order information on second-order stereopsis
A Wells, D Simmons (142)

B086 Visual synchrony and stereovision
F Moradi, B Zali (149)

B087 Inter-ocular velocity differences or disparity temporal changes? A unifying approach to the detection of motion-in-depth through phasebased disparity measurements
F Solari, S P Sabatini, G Nicolussi, G M Bisio (180)

B088 Neuroanatomy of binocular responses in cortical area 17 of the cat
S V Alexeenko (185)

B089 Human cortical areas responding to disparity: a fMRI study
R M Rutschmann, M W Greenlee (263)

B090 Interaction of binocular and stereokinetic depth mechanisms in children
G Rozhkova, N Vasilijeva (332)

B091 Feature induced spatiotemporal structure in binocular rivalry
F Taya, K Mogi (271)

B092 Autostereograms as a research tool in stereoscopic vision: Interactions between some cues in perception of motion-in-depth
K Minev, L Likova (322)

B093 The perceived direction of motion in depth of an approaching object whose size on retina is constant
M Ishii, M Fujisawa, M Sato (359)

B094 Monocular alignment in different depth planes
K Shimono (386)

B095 Evidence favouring eye competition during binocular rivalry
T Conway, R Blake, R Fox (440)

B096 Can the magnitude of the binocular depth contrast effect be predicted solely by the induction of disparity information?
T Hudson, W Li, L Matin (503)

B097 Accommodation cues reduce latencies for large-disparity detection
R Eagle, E Paige, L Sucharov (518)

B098 Stereoscopic detection and segregation of noisy transparent surfaces
S Palmisano, R S Allison, I P Howard

Contrast (B099-B104)


B099 Pedestal effects with periodic pulse trains
G B Henning, F A Wichmann (21)

B100 A broad band of spatial frequencies contributes to supra-threshold perceived contrast
K Tiippana, R Näsänen (81)

B101 Perceived contrast and contextual effects
M Tommasi (113)

B102 Delay in processing high spatial frequency signals and local retinal stimulus intensity
A Vassilev (215)

B103 The time course of contrast adaptation and recovery
S Hammett, P G Thompson, S Bedingham, A B Macleod (402)

B104 Achromatic and chromatic contrast channels of human spatial vision and their combination at detection threshold
J M Rovamo, C Waters, J Hallikainen (493)


Attention and search (B105-114)


B105 Within-object conjunction visual search: evidence for grouping and binding before and after practice
C Casco, G Campana (39)

B106 Mirror-image distractors and visual search: what do they reveal about perceptual processes?
E Thorpe-Davis, T Shikano, S A Peterson, R Keyes, C E Shook, J Dart (343)

B107 Attention and processing of visual orientation
R Daini, P Wenderoth (182)

B108 Preattentive processing in a preattentive task
C-H Juan, V Walsh, P Mcleod (243)

B109 The explicit and implicit in visual awareness
K Mogi (303)

B110 Orientation asymmetry in target detection with isoluminant redgreen stimuli
L Doherty (259)

B111 Distribution and allocation of visual attention
S-L Yeh (353)

B112 Search strategies based on the codification of stimulus relational properties
D Ponte, M J Sampedro, C Rechea (444)

B113 Pauses in RSVP text improve comprehension for learning-disabled and normal readers
S Heidenreich, G Lee Zimmerman (268)

B114 Perceptual priming is asymmetric with and without attention
F G Loula, M Shiffrar (505)


Perceptual organisation (B115-B139)


B115 Effects of the orientation difference on texture segregation in central visual field
M Sekine (14)

B116 Detection of rotational symmetry and effect of closure
M Bertamini, J Friedenberg (411)

B117 Evidence for an association field revealed by Ternus displays composed of Gabor elements
D Alais, J Lorenceau, S Georges, P Series (455)

B118 Can segmentation processes be modulated at an early level in visual perception?
A Giersch, M Fahle (128)

B119 The effects of diagrams' visual properties in analogical problem solving
R Pedone (188)

B120 Dimensions of visual Gestalt: the quantitative approach
D Jankovic, S Markovic, I Subotic (248)

B121 Hierarchical numerosity perception
J Friedenberg, W Limratana (297)

B122 Gestalt laws in perturbed spatial structures
P Claessens, A Janssens, J Wagemans, M Kubovy (400)

B123 Splitting words shows they are 'spacial'
M H Fischer (15)

B124 Detection thresholds for brief pulses presented on dynamic backgrounds can be explained by a model that relates to retinal physiology
H Snippe, L Poot, J H van Hateren (76)

B125 Quantitative evaluation of interval changes from a sequence of medical images
Y Ugurlu, T Obi, M Yamaguchi, N Ohyama (123)

B126 Separate coding systems for categorical and metric visuo-spatial information
F Maringelli, E Bricolo, T Shallice (130)

B127 Prior stimuli affect both size threshold and decision time
S V Chukova, A J Ahumada, E A Vershinina (280)

B128 A typology of conjoint growth processes
J Allik, M Toom (385)

B129 The effects of background and sound source location upon auditory facilitation of visual target acquisition
M Doyle, R J Snowden (425)

B130 Cuts and phenomenal continuity: the role of apparent motion
L Tommasi, R Actis Grosso (446)

B131 Perception, language and gesture: towards a natural human-computer interaction
A De Angeli, W Gerbino, L Romary, F Wolff (460)

B132 ShowTime: A QuickTime-based infrastructure for vision research displays
A Watson, J Hu (514)

B133 Formal models of blur detection
C Neveu (525)

B134 Vision recognition of embedded pictures in left- and right-handed children
O Levashov, E Boyeva (534)

B135 Visual fatigue and TV viewing
S R Nemtsova, G Demirchoglyan (548)

B136 Distinct features in alphabetical signs
M L F de Mattiello, S Pescio, G Lado (547)

B137 Orientation and amodal completion
F Sgorbissa, W Gerbino (591)

B138 Investigating the processing of occluded spatiotemporal patterns: the 'dynamic Poggendorff effect'
A Eisenkolb (593)

B139 The perception of length changes in moving objects
L Tomat, P Scamardi, G B Vicario (594)


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