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Issue 1

Editorial

Bayes Window (5): Analogue Bayes? 1
Richard L Gregory

Speed constancy and the perception of distance 3 – 21
Junko Tozawa

Accelerating self-motion displays produce more compelling vection in depth 22 – 33
Stephen Palmisano, Robert S Allison, Fiona Pekin

Monitoring eye movements to investigate the picture superiority effect in spatial memory 34 – 49
Zaira Cattaneo, Mitchell Rosen, Tomaso Vecchi, Jeff B Pelz

The effect of temporal and spatial frequency on phantom-contour detection 50 – 56
Jessica Taubert, Eugene Chekaluk

Independent processing of form, colour, and texture in object perception 57 – 78
Jonathan S Cant, Mary-Ellen Large, Lindsay McCall, Melvyn A Goodale

The intrinsic constraint model for stereo-motion integration 79 – 95
Hadley Tassinari, Fulvio Domini, Corrado Caudek

Event-related potentials, reaction time, and response selection of skilled and less-skilled cricket batsmen 96 – 105
M Sharhidd Taliep, A St Clair Gibson, J Gray, L van der Merwe, C L Vaughan, T D Noakes, L A Kellaway, L R John

Is pictorial perception robust? The effect of the observer vantage point on the perceived depth structure of linear-perspective images 106 – 125
Dejan Todorović

Computational models of facial attractiveness judgments 126 – 142
P Matthew Bronstad, Judith H Langlois, Richard Russell

Investigating the effects of inversion on configural processing with an audiovisual temporal-order judgment task 143 – 160
Argiro Vatakis, Charles Spence

Last but not least

17 000 years of depicting the junction of two smooth shapes 161 – 164
Irving Biederman, Jiye G Kim

Reviews 165 – 166
Baddeley on Peterson, Gillam, Sedgwick (Eds): In the mind’s eye: Julian Hochberg on the perception of pictures, films, and the world by J Hochberg

Issue 2

Guest editorial

Snellen’s letters 167 – 170
Nicholas J Wade

The effects of curvature on the grid illusions 171 – 184
Michael W Levine, J Jason McAnany

Learning to perceive differences in solid shape through vision and touch 185 – 196
J Farley Norman, Anna Marie Clayton, Hideko F Norman, Charles E Crabtree

Change detection is easier at texture border bars when they are parallel to the border: Evidence for V1 mechanisms of bottom – up salience 197 – 206
Li Jingling, Li Zhaoping

Identification of everyday objects on the basis of silhouette and outline versions 207 – 244
Johan Wagemans, Joeri De Winter, Hans Op de Beeck, Annemie Ploeger, Tom Beckers, Peter Vanroose

The awakening of Attneave’s sleeping cat: Identification of everyday objects on the basis of straight-line versions of outlines 245 – 270
Joeri De Winter, Johan Wagemans

Identification of everyday objects on the basis of fragmented outline versions 271 – 289
Sven Panis, Joeri De Winter, Joachim Vandekerckhove, Johan Wagemans

Melody and pitch processing in five musical savants with congenital blindness 290 – 307
Linda Pring, Katherine Woolf, Valerie Tadic

Twelfth Applied Vision Christmas Meeting
Aston University, Birmingham, UK, 17 December 2007, Abstracts
308 – 316

Last but not least

Rolling perception without rolling motion 317 – 320
Songjoo Oh, Maggie Shiffrar

Skating down a steeper slope: Fear influences the perception of geographical slant 321 – 323
Jeanine K Stefanucci, Dennis R Proffitt, Gerald L Clore, Nazish Parekh

Persisting effect of prior experience of change blindness 324 – 327
Kohske Takahashi, Katsumi Watanabe

Issue 3

Special issue: Pre-emptive perception
Guest editor: Ivan Bodis-Wollner

Editorial

Introduction to the special issue 329 – 332
Richard L Gregory, Ivan Bodis-Wollner

Top – down control of visual perception: Attention in natural vision 333 – 354
Edmund T Rolls

Action rules: Why the visual control of reaching and grasping is not always influenced by perceptual illusions 355 – 366
Melvyn A Goodale, Claudia L R Gonzalez, Grzegorz Króliczak

Transcranial direct current stimulation and visual perception 367 – 374
Andrea Antal, Walter Paulus

Perception of phosphenes and flashed alphabetical characters is enhanced by single-pulse transcranial magnetic stimulation of anterior frontal lobe: The thalamic gate hypothesis 375 – 388
Vahe Amassian, Zoltan Mari, Laura Sagliocco, Nasser Hassan, Peter Maccabee, Joan B Cracco, Ivan Bodis-Wollner, Roger Q Cracco

Neural enhancement and pre-emptive perception: The genesis of attention and the attentional maintenance of the cortical salience map 389 – 400
Angela L Gee, Anna E Ipata, Jacqueline Gottlieb, James W Bisley, Michael E Goldberg

Broadening of activity with flow across neural structures 401 – 407
William Lytton, Rena Orman, Mark Stewart

Visual perception and corollary discharge 408 – 418
Marc A Sommer, Robert H Wurtz

Perisaccadic parietal and occipital gamma power in light and in complete darkness 419 – 432
Peter B Forgacs, Hans von Gizycki, Ivan Selesnick, Nasir A Syed, Kurt Ebrahim, Matt Avitable, Vahe Amassian, William Lytton, Ivan Bodis-Wollner

Action in perception? Empirical and philosophical arguments against the enactive approach to perception 433 – 445
Ralph Schumacher

The scope and limits of enactive approaches to visual experience 446 – 461
Pierre Jacob

Pre-emptive perception 462 – 478
Ivan Bodis-Wollner

Issue 4

Guest editorial

Natural historians 479 – 482
Nicholas J Wade

Rapid figure – ground responses to stereograms reveal an advantage for a convex foreground 483 – 494
Marco Bertamini, Rebecca Lawson

The copycat solution to the shadow correspondence problem 495 – 503
Roberto Casati

Ellipses on the surface of a picture 504 – 510
Sherief Hammad, John M Kennedy, Igor Juricevic, Shazma Rajani

Large manual pointing errors, but accurate verbal reports, for indications of target azimuth 511 – 534
John Philbeck, Jesse Sargent, Joeanna Arthur, Steve Dopkins

Boundary completion, contrast polarity, and the perception of illusory tilt 535 – 556
Oronzo Parlangeli, Sergio Roncato

Amodal completion of moving objects by pigeons 557 – 570
Yasuo Nagasaka, Edward A Wasserman

Rapid detection of person information in a naturalistic scene 571 – 583
Sue Fletcher-Watson, John M Findlay, Susan R Leekam, Valerie Benson

The effect of categorisation on sensitivity to second-order relations in novel objects 584 – 601
Mayu Nishimura, Daphne Maurer

The influence of picture size on recognition and exploratory behaviour in raised-line drawings 602 – 614
Maarten W A Wijntjes, Thijs van Lienen, Ilse M Verstijnen, Astrid M L Kappers

The role of femininity and averageness of voice pitch in aesthetic judgments of women’s voices 615 – 623
David R Feinberg, Lisa M DeBruine, Benedict C Jones, David I Perrett

Last but not least

When is motion ‘motion’? 624 – 627
Erik Blaser, George Sperling

Another reason why adults find it hard to draw accurately 628 – 630
William J Matthews, Amy Adams

The riddle of the Rotating-Tilted-Lines illusion 631 – 635
Simone Gori, Arash Yazdanbakhsh

Ibn al-Haytham and psychophysics 636 – 638
Craig Aaen-Stockdale

Reviews 639 – 640
Kappers on Heller, Ballesteros (Eds): Touch and blindness: Psychology and neuroscience

Issue 5

Editorial

A view of Gerald Westheimer’s review of Helmholtz as a Bayesian 641
Richard L Gregory

Was Helmholtz a Bayesian? 642 – 650
Gerald Westheimer

Straightness as the main factor of the Hermann grid illusion 651 – 665
János Geier, Lászlo Bernáth, Mariann Hudák, Lászlo Séra

The relationship perceived between the real body and the mirror image 666 – 687
Ivana Bianchi, Ugo Savardi

Depth representation of moving 3-D objects in apparent-motion path 688 – 703
Souta Hidaka, Yousuke Kawachi, Jiro Gyoba

Expanding and contracting optic-flow patterns and vection 704 – 711
Andrea Bubka, Frederick Bonato, Stephen Palmisano

The attenuation effect in timing: Counteracting dual-task interference with time-judgment skill training 712 – 724
Scott W Brown

Spatial correspondence and relation correspondence: Grouping factors that influence perception of the Ternus display 725 – 739
J Timothy Petersik, Curran M Rice

Spatial extent and figural factors in backward masking 740 – 746
Adam Geremek, Lothar Spillmann

On the benefits of transient attention across the visual field 747 – 764
Árni Kristjánsson, Heida Maria Sigurdardottir

Processing of the Müller-Lyer illusion by a Grey parrot (Psittacus erithacus) 765 – 781
Irene M Pepperberg, Jennifer Vicinay, Patrick Cavanagh

Can tactile stimuli be subitised? An unresolved controversy within the literature on numerosity judgments 782 – 800
Alberto Gallace, Hong Z Tan, Charles Spence

Last but not least

Famous faces as icons. The illusion of being an expert in the recognition of famous faces 801 – 806
Claus-Christian Carbon

Issue 6

Guest editorial

The Thatcherisation of faces 807 – 810
Nicholas J Wade

A test of the sensorimotor account of vision and visual perception 811 – 814
Bruce Bridgeman, Joshua Gaunt, Evelyn Plumb, Joshua Quan, Eric Chiu, Catherine Woods

What is ‘up’? A reply to Bridgeman et al 815
J Kevin O’Regan

The effects of curvature on haptic judgments of extent in sighted and blind people 816 – 840
Morton A Heller, Astrid M L Kappers, Melissa McCarthy, Ashley Clark, Tara Riddle, Erin Fulkerson, Lindsay Wemple, Anne McClure Walk, Andreana Basso, Crystal Wanek, Kristen Russler

The colour of Os: Naturally biased associations between shape and colour 841 – 847
Ferrinne Spector, Daphne Maurer

Matching auditory and visual signals: Is sensory modality just another feature? 848 – 858
Jeroen S Benjamins, Maarten J van der Smagt, Frans A J Verstraten

Auditory attention causes visual inattentional blindness 859 – 866
Silvia Pizzighello, Paola Bressan

Age-related changes in attentional tracking of multiple moving objects 867 – 876
Robert Sekuler, Chris McLaughlin, Yuko Yotsumoto

Depth stratification in illusory-contour figures on heterogeneous backgrounds is independent of contour clarity and brightness enhancement 877 – 888
Pietro Guardini, Luciano Gamberini

The role of explicit and implicit standards in visual speed discrimination 889 – 901
J Farley Norman, Kristina F Pattison, Hideko F Norman, Amy E Craft, Elizabeth Y Wiesemann, M Jett Taylor

A static geometrical illusion contributes largely to the footsteps illusion 902 – 914
Shoji Sunaga, Masayuki Sato, Natsuko Arikado, Hiroshi Jomoto

Interactive processes in matching identity and expressions of unfamiliar faces: Evidence for mutual facilitation effects 915 – 930
Yonata Levy, Shlomo Bentin

Expertise and attunement to kinematic constraints 931 – 948
Bruce Abernethy, Khairi Zawi, Robin C Jackson

Last but not least

Blind or deaf? A matter of aesthetics 949 – 950
Jiye G Kim, Andrew J Goldman, Irving Biederman

The human Müller-Lyer illusion in goalkeeping 951 – 954
John van der Kamp, Rich S W Masters

Alcohol intoxication reduces detection of asymmetry: An explanation for increased perceptions of facial attractiveness after alcohol consumption? 955 – 958
Antonio Souto, Bruna M Bezerra, Lewis G Halsey

Applied Vision Association Annual 2008 Meeting in conjunction with University of Manchester Neuroscience Research Institute, Manchester, UK, 1 April 2008
Visual Variation and Bias, Abstracts
959 – 968

Issue 7

Guest editorial

Chevalier John Taylor, ophthalmiater 969 – 972
Nicholas J Wade

Apparent motion by edge discontinuities 973 – 992
Carlo Fantoni, Baingio Pinna

The use of chromatic information for motion segmentation: Differences between psychophysical and eye-movement measures 993 – 1009
Karen R Dobkins, Vanitha Sampath

Spatial offset of test field elements from surround elements affects the strength of motion aftereffects 1010 – 1021
John Harris, Daniel Sullivan, Madeleine Oakley

Correspondence matching in long-range apparent motion precedes featural analysis 1022 – 1036
Nicolaas Prins

Auditory feedback influences perceived driving speeds 1037 – 1043
Mark S Horswill, Annaliese M Plooy

Plasticity of the association between visual space and action space in a blind-walking task 1044 – 1053
Colin G Ellard, Lori S Wagar

Covert detection of attractiveness among the neurologically intact: Evidence from skin-conductance responses 1054 – 1060
Paula R McDonald, Alan M Slater, Christopher A Longmore

Effects of inversion and negation on social inferences from faces 1061 – 1078
Isabel M Santos, Andrew W Young

Men’s attraction to women’s bodies changes seasonally 1079 – 1085
Bogusław Pawlowski, Piotr Sorokowski

Perceptual deterioration is reflected in the neural response: fMRI study of nappers and non-nappers 1086 – 1097
Sara C Mednick, Sean P A Drummond, A Cyrus Arman, Geoffrey M Boynton

Uncomfortable images in art and nature 1098 – 1113
Dominic Fernandez, Arnold J Wilkins

Vibrotactile – auditory interactions are post-perceptual 1114 – 1130
Kielan Yarrow, Patrick Haggard, John C Rothwell

Last but not least

Harnessing vision for computation 1131 – 1134
Mark Changizi

Issue 8

Editorial

Lucky Imaging I 1135 – 1136
Richard L Gregory

Haptic curvature comparison of convex and concave shapes 1137 – 1151
Bernard J van der Horst, Astrid M L Kappers

Interocular transfer of a rotational motion aftereffect as a function of eccentricity 1152 – 1159
Philip M Grove, Hiroshi Ashida, Hirohiko Kaneko, Hiroshi Ono

Observing object motion induces increased generalization and sensitivity 1160 – 1174
Benjamin Balas, Pawan Sinha

The effect of face orientation on holistic processing 1175 – 1186
Catherine J Mondloch, Daphne Maurer

The role of holistic processing in judgments of facial attractiveness 1187 – 1196
Zara-Angela Abbas, Bradley Duchaine

The monocular-boundary-contour mechanism in binocular surface representation and suppression 1197 – 1215
Eric A van Bogaert, Teng Leng Ooi, Zijiang J He

The influence of recent experience on perceptions of attractiveness 1216 – 1226
Philip A Cooper, Daphne Maurer

On facial expertise: Processing strategies of twins’ parents 1227 – 1240
Line Sæther, Bruno Laeng

Identity adaptation is mediated and moderated by visualisation ability 1241 – 1257
Peter J Hills, Rachael L Elward, Michael B Lewis

Temporal characteristics of visibility in chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) and humans (Homo sapiens) assessed by a visual-masking paradigm 1258 – 1268
Toyomi Matsuno, Masaki Tomonaga

Reducing contrast makes speeds in a video-based driving simulator harder to discriminate as well as making them appear slower 1269 – 1275
Mark S Horswill, Annaliese M Plooy

Highlighting human form and motion information enhances the conspicuity of pedestrians at night 1276 – 1284
Stacy A Balk, Richard A Tyrrell, Johnell O Brooks, Thomas L Carpenter

The aesthetic appeal of auditory – visual synaesthetic perceptions in people without synaesthesia 1285 – 1296
Jamie Ward, Samantha Moore, Daisy Thompson-Lake, Shireen Salih, Brianna Beck

Last but not least

Self-reported Magic Eye™ stereogram skill predicts stereoacuity 1297 – 1300
Jeremy B Wilmer, Benjamin T Backus

Appearance of an illusory object in the blind spot 1301 – 1304
Yukyu Araragi, Hiroyuki Ito, Shoji Sunaga

Two new illusions of the tongue 1305 – 1307
Marc Egeth

Announcement 1308

Issue 9

Editorial

Lucky Imaging II 1309 – 1311
Richard L Gregory

Galileo’s eye: A new vision of the senses in the work of Galileo Galilei 1312 – 1340
Marco Piccolino, Nicholas J Wade

Variations in intensity statistics for representational and abstract art, and for art from the Eastern and Western hemispheres 1341 – 1352
Daniel J Graham, David J Field

Representation or context as a cognitive strategy in colour constancy? 1353 – 1367
Ta-Wei Lin, Chun-Wang Sun

Neural correlates of transformational apparent motion 1368 – 1379
Giuseppe Mirabella, Anthony M Norcia

What is the reference in reference repulsion? 1380 – 1385
Mark Wiese, Peter Wenderoth

The onset-repulsion effect and motion-induced mislocalization of a stationary object 1386 – 1398
Timothy L Hubbard, Jon R Courtney

Role of biological-motion information in recognition of facial expressions by young children 1399 – 1411
Hirokazu Doi, Akemi Kato, Ai Hashimoto, Nobuo Masataka

The biasing of figure – ground assignment by shading cues for objects and faces in prosopagnosia 1412 – 1425
Rebecca Hefter, Beth A Jerskey, Jason J S Barton

The context sensitivity of visual size perception varies across cultures 1426 – 1433
Martin Doherty, Hiromi Tsuji, William A Phillips

At first glance, transparency enhances assimilation 1434 – 1442
Arno Koning, Charles M M de Weert, Rob van Lier

Psychophysics of perceiving eye-gaze and head direction with peripheral vision: Implications for the dynamics of eye-gaze behavior 1443 – 1457
Jack M Loomis, Jonathan W Kelly, Matthias Pusch, Jeremy N Bailenson, Andrew C Beall

Last but not least

Thickness and the Koffka ring effect 1458 – 1460
Abigail E Huang, Alice J Hon, Eric Lewin Altschuler

Perceptual stability—going with the flow 1461 – 1463
Richard V Abadi, Janus J Kulikowski

Reviews 1464 – 1466
Watkins on Handel: Perceptual coherence: hearing and seeing

Issue 10

Guest editorial

Visual red (Sehrot) 1467 – 1470
Nicholas J Wade

Angle alignment evokes perceived depth and illusory surfaces 1471 – 1487
Robert Shapley, Marianne Maertens

Investigations of human EEG response to viewing fractal patterns 1488 – 1494
Caroline M Hagerhall, Thorbjörn Laike, Richard P Taylor, Marianne Küller, Rikard Küller, Theodore P Martin

Illusions of perception of 3-D house models 1495 – 1509
Torsten Ingemann Nielsen

A functional explanation for the effects of visual exposure on preference 1510 – 1519
Mark A Changizi, Shinsuke Shimojo

Spatial attention can modulate unconscious orientation processing 1520 – 1528
Bahador Bahrami, David Carmel, Vincent Walsh, Geraint Rees, Nilli Lavie

Visual prosthesis 1529 – 1559
Peter H Schiller, Edward J Tehovnik

The perception of facial expressions from two-frame apparent motion 1560 – 1568
Naoyuki Matsuzaki, Takao Sato

Figure – ground effects on shape memory for objects versus holes 1569 – 1586
Stephen Palmer, Janet Davis, Rolf Nelson, Irvin Rock

Location of the auditory egocentre in the blind and normally sighted 1587 – 1595
Haru Sukemiya, Sachio Nakamizo, Hiroshi Ono

Components of haptic information: Skin rivals kinaesthesis 1596 – 1604
Mark A Symmons, Barry L Richardson, Dianne B Wuillemin

Last but not least

Barack Obama or Barry Dunham? The appearance of multiracial faces is affected by the names assigned to them 1605 – 1608
Kirin F Hilliar, Richard I Kemp

Reading-related habitual eye movements produce a directional anisotropy in the perception of speed and animacy 1609 – 1611
Paul A Szego, M D Rutherford

Reviews 1612 – 1616
Sawada, Pizlo on Jenkin, Harris (Eds): Seeing spatial form

Issue 11

Guest editorial

Visual purple (Sehpurpur) 1617 – 1620
Nicholas J Wade

Multiplicative and additive Adelson’s snake illusions 1621 – 1636
Karin Petrini

Smiling reduces masculinity: Principal component analysis applied to facial images 1637 – 1648
Satoru Kawamura, Masashi Komori, Yusuke Miyamoto

Change of temporal-order judgment of sounds during long-lasting exposure to large-field visual motion 1649 – 1666
Wataru Teramoto, Hiroshi Watanabe, Hiroyuki Umemura, Shinichi Kita

The effect of horizontal versus vertical task presentation on children’s performance in coordinate tasks 1667 – 1676
Naomi Worsfold, Alyson Davis, Bart De Bruyn

Learning building layouts with non-geometric visual information: The effects of visual impairment and age 1677 – 1699
Amy A Kalia, Gordon E Legge, Nicholas A Giudice

Mechanisms of identity and gender decisions to faces: Who rocked in 1986? 1700 – 1719
Rachel M Richards, Andrew W Ellis

Metaphoric pictures devised by an early-blind adult on her own initiative 1720 – 1728
John M Kennedy

Training eye movements: Can training people where to look hinder the processing of fixated objects? 1729 – 1744
Richard Dewhurst, David Crundall

Wide and diffuse perceptual modes characterize dyslexics in vision and audition 1745 – 1764
Gadi Geiger, Carmen Cattaneo, Raffaella Galli, Uberto Pozzoli, Maria Luisa Lorusso, Andrea Facoetti, Massimo Molteni

Last but not least

Blurry means good focus: Myopia and visual attention 1765 – 1768
Elinor McKone, Anne Aimola Davies, Dinusha Fernando

The Leaning Tower illusion is not a simple perspective illusion 1769 – 1772
Lydia M Maniatis

Leaning Tower illusion: Orientation contrast or perspective distortion? Reply to Maniatis 1773 – 1775
Ali Yoonessi, Elena Gheorghiu, Frederick A A Kingdom

Reviews 1776 – 1778
Kristjánsson on Brook (Ed.): The prehistory of cognitive science

Issue 12

Guest editorial

Blinking Sam Johnson’s perception 1779 – 1782
Nicholas J Wade

Biological motion alters coherent motion perception 1783 – 1789
Kiyoshi Fujimoto, Akihiro Yagi

Solving the correspondence problem within the Ternus display: The differential-activation theory 1790 – 1804
Darko Odic, Jay Pratt

Graphical illustration and functional neuroimaging of visual hallucinations during prolonged blindfolding: A comparison to visual imagery 1805 – 1821
Ruxandra Sireteanu, Viola Oertel, Harald Mohr, David Linden, Wolf Singer

Similarity, typicality, and category-level matching of morphed outlines of everyday objects 1822 – 1849
Sven Panis, Joris Vangeneugden, Johan Wagemans

A psychophysical and computational analysis of the spatio-temporal mechanisms underlying the flash-lag effect 1850 – 1866
André M Cravo, Marcus V C Baldo

Canonical views in haptic object perception 1867 – 1878
Andrew T Woods, Allison Moore, Fiona N Newell

Perception and the art of depiction of cylindrical objects 1879 – 1885
Jan B Deręgowski, Peter McGeorge

Last but not least

Odours grab his hand but not hers 1886 – 1889
Federico Tubaldi, Caterina Ansuini, Roberto Tirindelli, Umberto Castiello

Points of view: Where do we look when we watch TV? 1890 – 1894
S Adam Brasel, James Gips

Author index 1895 – 1898

Referees 1899 – 1900