Advanced Vision
SeminarAdvanced Vision
SeminarSpring 2001
Fall 2000 | Spring 2000 | Fall 1999 | Spring 1999
The Vision Seminar meets on Fridays at 9-11am in 217 Ames Hall. Copies of the articles are available in Room 220 Ames (the copy room). Suggestions for readings are welcome; please forward suggestions to the organizers, Steve Yantis (yantis@jhu.edu) or Howard Egeth (egeth@jhu.edu).
April 13
Freeman, E., Sagi, D., Driver, J. (2001). Lateral interactions between targets and flankers in low-level vision depend on attention to the flankers. Unpublished manuscript.
April 6
Wender, K. F., & Rothkegel, R. (2000). Subitizing and its subprocesses. Psychological Research, 64, 81-92.
March 30
Guttman, S. E., & Sekuler, A. B. (2001). Visual completion of partly occluded objects: An exploration of spatial and temporal limits. Unpublished manuscript.
For those who wish further background on this topic, please consult
Shore, D. I., & Enns, J. T. (1997). Shape completion time depends on the
size of the occluded region. JEP: HPP, 23, 980-998.
March 23
Spring Break: no meeting
March 16
Rauschenberger, R., & Yantis, S. (2001). Masking unveils pre-amodal completion representation in visual search. Nature, 410, 369-372.
Schulz M. F. & Sanocki T. (2001). Time course of perceptual grouping by color. Unpublished manuscript.
Enns, J. T., & Di Lollo, V. (1997). Object substitution: A new form of masking in unattended visual locations. Psychological Science, 8, 135-139.
March 9
Prinz, J. (2000). A neurofunctional theory of visual consciousness. Consciousness and Cognition, 9, 243-259.
Commentaries and Replies (2000). Consciousness and Cognition, 9, 260-287.
March 2
Harris, C. R., Pashler, H. E., & Coburn, N. (2001). High-priority affective stimuli and visual search. Unpublished manuscript.
February 23
Vision seminar postponed due to inclemate weather
February 16
Lachter, J., Forster, K. I., & Ruthruff, E. (2001). Reading irrelevant words: slippage not leakage. Unpublished manuscript.
September 30
Di Lollo, V., Kawahara, J., Zuvic, S.M., & Visser, T.A.W. (in press). The preattentive emperor has no clothes: A dynamic redressing. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General.
September 22
Zenger, B., Braun, J., & Koch, C. (2000). Attentional effects on contrast detection in the presence of surround masks. Manuscript.
September 15
Rees, G., Friston, K., & Koch, C. (2000). A direct quantitative relationship between the functional properties of human and macaque V5. Nature Neuroscience, 3, 716-723.
March 17, 2000
He, S., Cavanagh, P, & Intrilligator, J. (1996). Attentional resolution and the locus of visual awareness. Nature, 383, 334-337.
March 10, 2000
Decety, J., & Grezes, J. (1999). Neural mechanisms subserving the perception of human actions. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 3, 172-178.
Decety, J. (1996). Do imagined and executed action share the same neural substrate? Cognitive Brain Research, 3, 87-93.
March 3, 2000
There is no vision seminar today.
February 25, 2000
Croner, L.J., & Albright, T.D. (1999). Seeing the big picture: Integration of image cues in the primate visual system. Neuron, 24, 777-789.
February 18, 2000
Reynolds, J. H., & Desimone, R. (1999). The role of neural mechanisms of attention in solving the binding problem. Neuron, 24, 19-29.
February 11, 2000
LaBerge, D., Carlson, R. L. et al. (1997). Shifting attention in visual space: Tests of moving-spotlight models versus an activity-distribution model. JEP:HPP, 23, 1380-1392.
December 3, 1999
Humphreys et al (1996) A neurological dissociation between shape from shading and shape from edges. Behavioral Brain Research, 76, 117-125.
Faillenot et al. (1997) Visual pathways for object oriented action and object recognition: functional anatomy with PET. Cerebral Cortex, 7, 77-85.
Milner et al (1991) Perception and action in visual form agnosia. Brain, 114, 405-428.
November 26, 1999
No Vision Seminar: Thanksgiving
November 19, 1999
No Vision Seminar: Psychonomic Society Meeting
November 12, 1999
Farah (1991) Patterns of co-occurrence among the associative agnosiasa: Implications for visual object representation. Cognitive Neuropsychology, 8, 1-19.
Humphreys & Rumiati (1998). Agnosia without prosopagnosia or alexia: evidence for stored visual memories specific to objects. Cognitive Neuropsychology, 15, 243-278.
Gauthier & Tarr (1997) Becoming a Greeble expert: exploring mechanisms for face recognition. Vision Research, 37, 1673-1682.
November 5, 1999
Booth and Rolls (1998) View-invariant representations of familiar objects by neurons in the inferiortemporal visual cortex. Cerebral Cortex, 8, 510-523.
Logothetis, Pauls, Bulthoff & Poggio (1994) View-dependent object recognition by monkeys. Current Biology, 4, 401-413.
Turnball, et al. (1997) Agnosia for object orientation: Implication for theories of object recognition. Neuropsychologia, 35, 153-163.
October 29, 1999
Marr (1982). Vision. Chapter 5: Representing Shapes for Recognition.
Bulthoff, et al. (1995). How are three-dimensional objects represented in thebrain? Cerebral cortex, 4, 247-260.
October 22, 1999
Wolfe & Bennett (1997). Preattentive object files; shapeless bundles of basic features. Vision Research, 37, 25-44.
Moore & Egeth (1997). Perception without attention: Evidence of grouping under conditions of inattention. JEP: HPP, 23, 339-352.
October 15, 1999
Kahneman, Treisman & Gibbs (1992). The reviewing of object files: object-specific integration of information. Cognitive Psychology, 24, 175-219.
October 8, 1999
Riddoch and Humphreys (1987) A case of integrative visual agnosia. Brain, 110, 1431-1462.
October 1, 1999
Beiderman, I. (1987). Recognition by components: a theory of human image understanding. Psychological Review, 94, 115-147.
Tarr, M. & Bulthoff, H. (1995). Is human object recognition better described by geon structural descriptions or by multiple views? comment on Biederman and Gerhardstein, 1993. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception & Performance, 21, 1495-1505.
September 24, 1999
Vecera, S. & Farah, M. (1997). Is visual image segmentation a bottom-up or an interactive process? Perception & Psychophysics, 59, 1280-1296.
Peterson, M. (1994). Object recognition processes can and do operate before figure-ground organization. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 3, 105-111.
September 17, 1999
Sekuler, A. & Palmer, S. (1992). Perception of partly occluded objects: A microgenetic analysis. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 121, 95-111.
Palmer, S. (1999). Vision Science: Photons to Phenomenology. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. Chapter 6: pp 254-305.
September 10, 1999
Shallice, T., & Jackson, M. (1988). Lissauer on Agnosia. Cognitive Neuropsychology, 5, 153-192. (translation of: Lissauer, H. (1890). A case of visual agnosia with a contribution to theory)
April 23, 1999
Gibson, B. S., & Kelsey, E. M. (1999). A warning concerning the measurement of attention in the spatial cuing paradigm: Implications for contingent capture. Manuscript.
April 16, 1999
No Vision Seminar this week: Spring Fair
April 9, 1999
Thompson, K. G., & Schall, J. D. (1999). The detection of visual signals by macaque frontal eye field during masking. Nature Neuroscience, 2, 283-288.
Assad, J. (1999). Now you see it: Fontal eye field responses to invisible targets [News & Views]. Nature Neuroscience, 2, 205-206.
April 2, 1999
No Vision Seminar this week.
March 26, 1999
Kihlstrom, J.F., Barnhardt, T.M., & Tataryn, D.J. (1992). Implicit perception. In R. F. Bornstein & T. S. Pittman, (Ed), Perception without awareness: Cognitive, clinical, and social perspectives. (pp. 17-54). New York: Guilford Press.
March 19, 1999
No Vision Seminar this week: Spring Break.
March 12, 1999
No Vision Seminar this week.
March 5, 1999
Ohman, A. (1997). As fast as the blink of an eye: Evolutionary preparedness for preattentive processing of threat. In P. J. Lang, R. F. Simons, & M. T. Balaban (Eds.), Attention and orienting : sensory and motivational processes (pp. 165-184). Mahwah, N.J. : Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
February 26, 1999
Rodriguez, E., et al. (1999). Perception's shadow: Long-distance synchronization of human brain activity. Nature, 397, 430-433.
Mittner, W. H. R. et al., (1999). Coherence of gamma-band EEG activity as a basis for associative learning. Nature, 397, 434-436.
Singer, W. (1999). Striving for coherence. Nature, 397, 392-393.
February 19, 1999
Yeshurun, Y., & Carrasco, M. (1998). Attention improves or impairs visual performance by enhancing spatial resolution. Nature, 395, 72-75.
Gibson, B. S., & Jiang, Y. (1998). Surprise! An unexpected color singleton does not capture attention in visual search. Psychological Science, 9, 176-182.
February 12, 1999
Donnelly, N. et al. (1998). Processes involved in the computation of a shape description. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 24, 1119-1130.
Donnelly, N. et al. (1991). Parallel computation of primitive shape descriptions. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 17, 561-570.
February 5, 1999
Epelboim, J. et al. (1994). Reading unspaced text: Implications for theories of reading eye movements. Vision Research, 34, 1735-1766.
Rayner, K., & Pollatsek, A. (1996). Reading unspaced text is not easy: Comments on the implications of Epelboim et al.'s (1994) study for models of eye movement control in reading. and reply by Epelboim, J. et al. (1996). Much ado about nothing: The place of space in text. Vision Research, 36, 461-470.