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Issue 1

Guest editorial

Nobel stains 1 – 8
Nicholas J Wade, Marco Piccolino

Motion perception in the ageing visual system: Minimum motion, motion coherence, and speed discrimination thresholds 9 – 24
Robert J Snowden, Emma Kavanagh

Ames’s window in proprioception 25 – 30
Nicola Bruno, Alessandro Dell'Anna, Alessandra Jacomuzzi

Perceiving surfaces in depth beyond the fusion limit of their elements 31 – 39
Hwan S Lee, Allan C Dobbins

Spatial-frequency thresholds for object categorisation at basic and subordinate levels 41 – 52
Charles A Collin

Chromaticity, spatial complexity, and self-motion perception 53 – 64
Frederick Bonato, Andrea Bubka

Evidence for a role of action in colour perception 65 – 78
Aline Bompas, J Kevin O’Regan

Infants’ discrimination of faces by using biological motion cues 79 – 89
Janine Spencer, Justin O’Brien, Alan Johnston, Harold Hill

Colours in black and white: The depiction of lightness and brightness in achromatic engravings before the invention of photography 91 – 100
Daniele Zavagno, Manfredo Massironi

The accuracy of memory for faces of personally known individuals 101 – 106
Serge Brédart, Christel Devue

Effects of visual deprivation on space representation: Immediate and delayed pointing toward memorised proprioceptive targets 107 – 124
Florence Gaunet, Yves Rossetti

Tactile pattern discrimination at adjacent locations along the proximal – distal axis of the index finger 125 – 136
David T Horner

Last but not least

Misperceptions of trajectories of dots moving through the blind spot 137 – 142
Srimant P Tripathy, Brendan T Barrett

Issue 2

Editorial

Bayes Window (2) 143 – 144
Richard L Gregory

Disparity and shading cues cooperate for surface interpolation 145 – 155
Quoc C Vuong, Fulvio Domini, Corrado Caudek

Plaid motion rivalry: Correlates with binocular rivalry and positive mood state 157 – 169
Bonita M Sheppard, John D Pettigrew

An effect of luminance contrast on high-spatial-frequency tritanopia 171 – 184
Alexander D Logvinenko, Sara J Hutchinson

Does perceptual belongingness affect lightness constancy? 185 – 192
Alessandro Soranzo, Tiziano Agostini

Effects of endogenous spatial attention on the detection and discrimination of spatial frequencies 193 – 200
Narayanan Srinivasan, James M Brown

Testing the tilt-constancy theory of visual illusions 201 – 213
Peter Wenderoth, Darren Burke

The perception of moving subjective contours by 4-month-old infants 215 – 227
Michael Kavšek, Albert Yonas

Aesthetic phenomena as supernormal stimuli: The case of eye, lip, and lower-face size and roundness in artistic portraits 229 – 246
Marco Costa, Leonardo Corazza

Numerosity judgments for tactile stimuli distributed over the body surface 247 – 266
Alberto Gallace, Hong Z Tan, Charles Spence

The perception of tempo in music 267 – 280
Sandra Quinn, Roger Watt

Last but not least

Can you do this? Extremely difficult interbodypart coordination tasks and implications for central limitations on control of coordination 281 – 283
Eric Lewin Altschuler, Vilayanur S Ramachandran

Reviews 285 – 287
De-Wit on Noë: Action in perception

Issue 3

Editorial

Bayes Window (3): Where do prior probabilities come from? 289 – 290
Richard L Gregory

Testing the coplanar ratio hypothesis of lightness perception 291 – 301
Piers D L Howe

The control of fixation duration in visual search 303 – 315
Harold H Greene

Perceiving patterns of play in dynamic sport tasks: Investigating the essential information underlying skilled performance 317 – 332
A Mark Williams, Nicola J Hodges, Jamie S North, Gabor Barton

Does the use of natural stimuli facilitate amodal completion in pigeons? 333 – 349
Ulrike Aust, Ludwig Huber

Visual motion interferes with tactile motion perception 351 – 367
James C Craig

Are people with high and low mental rotation abilities differently susceptible to the alignment effect? 369 – 383
Francesca Pazzaglia, Rossana De Beni

Perceiving causality after the fact: Postdiction in the temporal dynamics of causal perception 385 – 399
Hoon Choi, Brian J Scholl

Orientation misperceptions induced by contrast polarity: Comment on “Contrast polarities determine the direction of Café Wall tilts” by Akiyoshi Kitaoka, Baingio Pinna, and Gavin Brelstaff (2004) 401 – 409
Sergio Roncato

Last but not least

The Mona Lisa effect: is ‘our’ Lisa fame or fake? 411 – 414
Claus-Christian Carbon

Tenth Applied Vision Association Christmas Meeting Aston University, Birmingham, UK, 19 December 2005, Abstracts 415 – 428

Reviews 429 – 430
Lotto on Prete (Ed.): Complex worlds from simpler nervous systems

Issue 4

Editorial

Bayes Window (4): Table of illusions 431 – 432
Richard L Gregory

Lightness and perceptual transparency 433 – 443
Marc K Albert

Simultaneous lightness contrast on plain and articulated surrounds 445 – 452
Paola Bressan, Rossana Actis-Grosso

Visual transients reveal the veridical position of a moving object 453 – 460
Ryota Kanai, Frans A J Verstraten

Spatial dependence of color assimilation by the watercolor effect 461 – 468
Frédéric Devinck, Peter B Delahunt, Joseph L Hardy, Lothar Spillmann, John S Werner

‘Squaring’ is better at predicting plaid motion than the vector average or intersection of constraints 469 – 481
Linda Bowns

Grouping and trajectory storage in multiple object tracking: Impairments due to common item motions 483 – 495
Mutsumi Suganuma, Kazuhiko Yokosawa

Structural similarity and spatiotemporal noise effects on learning dynamic novel objects 497 – 510
Quoc C Vuong, Michael J Tarr

An investigation of perceptual and decisional influences on the perception of hierarchical forms 511 – 529
Angelina M Copeland, Michael J Wenger

Configural information in gender categorisation 531 – 540
Jean-Yves Baudouin, Glyn W Humphreys

Font tuning associated with expertise in letter perception 541 – 559
Isabel Gauthier, Alan C-N Wong, William G Hayward, Olivia S Cheung

Large sex difference in adolescents on a timed line judgment task: Attentional contributors and task relationship to mathematics 561 – 572
Marcia L Collaer, Erica M Hill

Last but not least

Active and passive movements give rise to different judgements of coldness 573 – 575
George H VanDoorn, Barry L Richardson, Dianne B Wuillemin, Mark A Symmons

Issue 5

Guest editorial

Cave art interpretation 1 577 – 580
Nicholas J Wade, David Melcher

Binocular rivalry and surface-boundary processing 581 – 603
Teng Leng Ooi, Zijiang J He

Perceptual space in the dark affected by the intrinsic bias of the visual system 605 – 624
Teng Leng Ooi, Bing Wu, Zijiang J He

Perception of illumination direction in images of 3-D convex objects: Influence of surface materials and light fields 625 – 645
Byung-Geun Khang, Jan J Koenderink, Astrid M L Kappers

The development of sensitivity to biological motion in noise 647 – 657
Alejo Freire, Terri L Lewis, Daphne Maurer, Randolph Blake

Simulating the ‘other-race’ effect with autoassociative neural networks: further evidence in favor of the face-space model 659 – 670
Roberto Caldara, Hervé Abdi

Visual search for size-defined target objects is modulated by the Ebbinghaus apparent-size illusion: Facilitatory and inhibitory effects of the context objects 671 – 700
Hermann J Müller, Astrid Busch

The glare effect does not give rise to a longer-lasting afterimage 701 – 707
Hongjing Lu, Daniele Zavagno, Zili Liu

Reversing how to think about ambiguous figure reversals: Spontaneous alternating by uninformed observers 709 – 715
Stephen R Mitroff, David M Sobel, Alison Gopnik

Last but not least

Captured waterfall: Depth capture in a natural setting 717 – 718
Ilpo Kojo, Jukka Häkkinen, Jaana Simola

Issue 6

Guest editorial

Cave art interpretation 2 719 – 722
Nicholas J Wade

Effects of surface markings on judgments of motion direction 723 – 748
Nadejda Bocheva, Myron L Braunstein

Is pigmentation important for face recognition? Evidence from contrast negation 749 – 759
Richard Russell, Pawan Sinha, Irving Biederman, Marissa Nederhouser

Learning the moves: The effect of familiarity and facial motion on person recognition across large changes in viewing format 761 – 773
Dana A Roark, Alice J O’Toole, Hervé Abdi, Susan E Barrett

Dancing shapes: A comparison of luminance-induced distortions 775 – 798
Rob van Lier, Árpád Csathó

Configurational coincidence among six phenomena: A comment on van Lier and Csathó (2006) 799 – 806
Akiyoshi Kitaoka

The evolution of explanations of a perceptual phenomenon: A case history using the Ternus effect 807 – 821
J Timothy Petersik, Curran M Rice

An information theory analysis of visual complexity and dissimilarity 823 – 835
Don C Donderi

Savant-like numerosity skills revealed in normal people by magnetic pulses 837 – 845
Allan Snyder, Homayoun Bahramali, Tobias Hawker, D John Mitchell

Foreshortening, convergence and drawings from a blind adult 847 – 851
John M Kennedy, Igor Juricevic

Last but not least

A new motion illusion: The Rotating-Tilted-Lines illusion 853 – 857
Simone Gori, Kai Hamburger

Reviews 859 – 860
Ellison on Itti, rees, Tsotsos Neurobiology of attention

Issue 7

Guest editorial

Flagging early examples of ambiguity 1 861 – 864
Nicholas J Wade

Surface assignment modulates object formation for visual short-term memory 865 – 881
Árni Kristjánsson

Who owns the contour of a visual hole? 883 – 894
Marco Bertamini

Active steering along corrugated surfaces 895 – 909
Nam-Gyoon Kim

Self recognition versus recognition of others by biological motion: Viewpoint-dependent effects 911 – 920
Daniel Jokisch, Irene Daum, Nikolaus F Troje

A haptic face-inversion effect 921 – 931
Andrea R Kilgour, Susan J Lederman

Dependence of illusory motion on directional consistency in oblique components 933 – 946
Makoto Ichikawa, Yuko Masakura, Kohkichi Munechika

Spatiotemporal balance in competing apparent motion is not predicted from the strength of the single-motion percept 947 – 957
Kazuhiro Sakamoto, Takayuki Sugiura, Toshihiko Kaku, Toru Onizawa, Masafumi Yano

Background stripes affect apparent speed of rotation 959 – 964
Stuart Anstis, Hiroyuki Ito, Patrick Cavanagh

Can subthreshold summation be observed with the Ehrenstein illusion? 965 – 981
Véronique Salvano-Pardieu, Brian Wink, Alain Taliercio, Ken Manktelow, Thomas Meigen

Domestic chicks perceive stereokinetic illusions 983 – 992
Elena Clara, Lucia Regolin, Mario Zanforlin, Giorgio Vallortigara

Last but not least

The bar – cross – ellipse illusion: Alternating percepts of rigid and nonrigid motion based on contour ownership and trackable feature assignment 993 – 997
Peter U Tse , Gideon P Caplovitz

Reviews 999 – 1002
Gregory on Kitaoka: Trick eyes: Magical illusions that will activate the brain
Kristjánsson on Gordon: Theories of visual perception

Issue 8

Guest editorial

Flagging early examples of ambiguity 2 1003 – 1006
Nicholas J Wade

Effects of motion parallax and perspective cues on perceived size and distance 1007 – 1023
Junko Tozawa, Tadasu Oyama

Synaesthesia: The prevalence of atypical cross-modal experiences 1024 – 1033
Julia Simner, Catherine Mulvenna, Noam Sagiv, Elias Tsakanikos, Sarah A Witherby, Christine Fraser, Kirsten Scott, Jamie Ward

Direct evidence for the existence of energy-based texture mechanisms 1035 – 1046
Nicolaas Prins, Frederick A A Kingdom

Visual form-processing deficits in autism 1047 – 1055
Janine V Spencer, Justin M D O’Brien

Units of visual individuation in rhesus macaques: objects or unbound features? 1057 – 1071
Erik W Cheries, George E Newman, Laurie R Santos, Brian J Scholl

The role of part structure in the perceptual localization of a shape 1073 – 1087
Kristina Denisova, Manish Singh, Eileen Kowler

Information processing during face recognition: The effects of familiarity, inversion, and morphing on scanning fixations 1089 – 1105
Jason J S Barton, Nathan Radcliffe, Mariya V Cherkasova, Jay Edelman, James M Intriligator

Featural and configural face processing in adults and infants: A behavioral and electrophysiological investigation 1107 – 1128
Lisa S Scott, Charles A Nelson

Females, but not males, show greater pupillary response to direct- than deviated-gaze faces 1129 – 1136
Gillian Porter, Bruce M Hood, Tom Troscianko, C Neil Macrae

Perception of elliptic biological motion 1137 – 1147
Christel Bidet-Ildei, Jean-Pierre Orliaguet, Alexander N Sokolov, Marina Pavlova

Reviews 1149 – 1152
Baddeley on Underwood (Ed.): Cognitive processes in eye guidance
Hill on Li, Jain (Eds): Handbook of face recognition

Issue 9

Editorial

Artful forgery 1153 – 1154
Richard L Gregory

The time course of visual afterimages: Data and theory 1155 – 1170
Joshua Wede, Gregory Francis

The influence of depth segmentation on colour constancy 1171 – 1184
Annette Werner

Lightness of an object under two illumination levels 1185 – 1201
Sunčica Zdravković, Elias Economou, Alan Gilchrist

Determinants of perceived surface transparency in two-dimensional achromatic textured patterns 1203 – 1218
Karin Petrini, Osvaldo Da Pos

Stereo motion transparency processing implements an ecological smoothness constraint 1219 – 1232
Finnegan J Calabro, Lucia M Vaina

Alignment effect: primary – secondary learning and cognitive styles 1233 – 1249
Raffaella Nori, Sonia Grandicelli, Fiorella Giusberti

Development of modal and amodal completion in infants 1251 – 1264
Yumiko Otsuka, So Kanazawa, Masami K Yamaguchi

Errors in judging information about reflections in mirrors 1265 – 1288
Rebecca Lawson, Marco Bertamini

Last but not least

Presentation of a visual nearby moving object alters stream/bounce event perception 1289 – 1294
Yousuke Kawachi, Jiro Gyoba

Issue 10

Editorial

Magic 1295 – 1296
Richard L Gregory

2-D tilt and 3-D slant illusions in perception and action tasks 1297 – 1305
Paul B Hibbard, Mark F Bradshaw

Oppel – Kundt illusion in three-dimensional space 1307 – 1314
Jan B Deręgowski, P McGeorge

Central visual persistences: II. Effects of hand and head rotations 1315 – 1329
David Ingle

Material – illumination ambiguities and the perception of solid objects 1331 – 1350
Sylvia C Pont, Susan F te Pas

Distinct patterns of viewpoint-dependent BOLD activity during common-object recognition and mental rotation 1351 – 1366
Kevin D Wilson, Martha J Farah

Repetition priming and recognition of dynamic and static chimeras 1367 – 1382
Leslie L Steede, Graham J Hole

Aging and the visual, haptic, and cross-modal perception of natural object shape 1383 – 1395
J Farley Norman, Charles E Crabtree, Hideko F Norman, Brandon K Moncrief, Molly Herrmann, Noah Kapley

Viewpoint and orientation influence picture recognition in the blind 1397 – 1420
Morton A Heller, John M Kennedy, Ashley Clark, Melissa McCarthy, Amber Borgert, Lindsay Wemple, Erin Fulkerson, Nicole Kaffel, Amy Duncan, Tara Riddle

Liquid-specific stimulus properties can be used for haptic perception of the amount of liquid in a vessel put in motion 1421 – 1432
Gunnar Jansson, Peter Juslin, Leo Poom

Last but not least

Eye-witnesses should not do cryptic crosswords prior to identity parades 1433 – 1436
Michael B Lewis

Issue 11

Editorial

Molyneux's answer I 1437 – 1440
Nicholas J Wade, Richard L Gregory

Incomplete figure perception and invisible masking 1441 – 1457
Valery Chikhman, Yuri Shelepin, Nigel Foreman, Aleksey Merkuljev, Sergey Pronin

Effects of image background on spatial-frequency thresholds for face recognition 1459 – 1472
Charles A Collin, Luisa Wang, Byron O’Byrne

The perception of unfamiliar faces and houses by chimpanzees: Influence of rotation angle 1473 – 1483
Lisa A Parr, Matthew Heintz

Making heads turn: The effect of familiarity and stimulus rotation on a gender-classification task 1485 – 1494
Sarah V Stevenage, Cara D Osborne

Recognition of biological motion from blurred natural scenes 1495 – 1506
Simone Kuhlmann, Markus Lappe

Scene recognition following locomotion around a scene 1507 – 1520
Michael A Motes, Cory A Finlay, Maria Kozhevnikov

Demonstrations of spatiotemporal integration and what they tell us about the visual system 1521 – 1555
Peter H Schiller, Christina E Carvey

Synesthetically induced colors evoke apparent-motion perception 1557 – 1560
Vilayanur S Ramachandran, Shai Azoulai

The crossed-hands deficit in tactile temporal-order judgments: the effect of training 1561 – 1572
James C Craig, Adrienne N Belser

Last but not least

A new set of illusions—the Dynamic Luminance-Gradient Illusion and the Breathing Light Illusion 1573 – 1577
Simone Gori, D Alan Stubbs

Issue 12

Editorial

Molyneux's answer II 1579 – 1582
Nicholas J Wade

The effect of spatial-frequency filtering on the visual processing of global structure 1583 – 1609
Vicente Sierra-Vázquez, Ignacio Serrano-Pedraza, Dolores Luna

Test of models of achromatic transparency 1611 – 1624
Sergio Cesare Masin

Perceptual transparency in 3- to 4-month-old infants 1625 – 1636
Yumiko Otsuka, So Kanazawa, Masami K Yamaguchi

Face recognition in pictures is affected by perspective transformation but not by the centre of projection 1637 – 1650
Chang Hong Liu, James Ward

A study of impaired judgment of eye-gaze direction and related face-processing deficits in autism spectrum disorders 1651 – 1664
Simon Wallace, Michael Coleman, Olivier Pascalis, Anthony Bailey

Color onsets and offsets, and luminance changes can cause change blindness 1665 – 1678
James G Arrington, Daniel T Levin, D Alexander Varakin

The perceived structural shape of thin (wire-like) objects is different from that of silhouettes 1679 – 1692
Marco Bertamini, Tracy Farrant

Body mass index and waist : hip ratio are not enough to characterise female attractiveness 1693 – 1697
Leszek Pokrywka, Milan Čabrić, Helena Krakowiak

Are olfactory images sensory in nature? 1699 – 1708
Haruko Sugiyama, Saho Ayabe-Kanamura, Tadashi Kikuchi

Last but not least

The Poggendorff illusion: premeditated or unpremeditated misbehaviour? 1709 – 1712
David Phillips

Subject index 1713 – 1719

Author index 1721 – 1723

Referees 2006 1725 – 1726