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Vision Sciences Society Vision Sciences Society Third Annual Meeting May 9-14, 2003 Sarasota, Florida Organizers Ken Nakayama Tom Sanocki Web Services Jennifer Kaltreider Shauney Wilson Program Committee Randolph Blake Michael Paradiso David Knill Tatiana Pasternak Ken Nakayama Tom Sanocki Program Review Board Tom Albright Mel Goodale Michael Paradiso Marlene Behrmann John Henderson Tatiana Pasternak Irv Biederman Nancy Kanwisher Mary Peterson Randolph Blake Phil Kellman Brian Rogers David Brainard Daniel Kersten Jeff Schall Angela Brown Dave Knill Allison Sekuler Heinrich Buelthoff Eileen Kowler Daniel Simons Patrick Cavanagh Jack Loomis Mike Tarr Marvin Chun Jitendra Malik Christopher Tyler Heiner Deubel Cathleen Moore Bill Warren Jim Enns Tony Movshon Michael Webster Isabel Gauthier Tony Norcia Sophie Wuerger Charles Gilbert Alice O'Toole Covers by Shinki Ando, Program by Shauney Wilson Table of Contents Program Summary. 1 Talk Abstracts . 7 Saturday . 7 Sunday. 20 Monday . 32 Tuesday . 43 Wednesday . 57 Poster Abstracts . 65 Friday . 67 Saturday . 101 Sunday. 137 Monday . 171 Tuesday . 205 Index . 239 Daily Poster Topic Index . 249 iii iv Friday PROGRAM SUMMARY Program Summary Friday Poster Session – Municipal Audiitorium “Something For Everyone” Authors Present: 5:00 – 8:00 pm Texture, Motion: Temporal Factors, Spatial Vision: Orientation, Clinical, Space Perception, Search, Scene Perception, Perceptual Organization, Perceptual Learning, Perception and Action, Object Recognition, Motion 1: Integration & Disorders, Lightness/Shading, Face Perception, Eye Movement Cognitive, Color, Binocular Vision: Stereo, Binocular vision: Rivalry, Attention 1 1 PROGRAM SUMMARY Saturday Saturday Attending to Scenes – North Hall Spatial Vision – South Hall What could over 1000 Internet users tell us about visual attention in natural… Adaptation to sine-wave gratings selectively reduces the sensory gain of the… 9:00 Parkhurst, Niebur 9:00 Dao, Lu, Dosher A dynamic computational model of goal-directed visual perception Origins of the nonlinearity near threshold 9:15 Hamker 9:15 Kontsevich, Tyler Top-down control of visual attention in real world scenes Noise detection: bandwidth uncertainty and adjustable channels 9:30 Oliva, Torralba, Castelhano, Henderson 9:30 Taylor, Bennett, Sekuler I WILL use the channel I want: flexible spatial scale processing External noise yields a surprise: What template? 9:45 Özgen, Sowden, Schyns 9:45 Klein, Levi Different rates of memory formation for scenes with positive and negative… Perception of ellipse orientation: data and bayesian model 10:00 Maljkovic, Martini 10:00 Dijkstra, Liu, Oomes How opiate activity may determine spontaneous visual selection STICKS: Image-representation via non-local comparisons 10:15 Vessel, Biederman, Cohen 10:15 Balas, Sinha Space Perception – North Hall Early Visual Processing – South Hall What is stored in the sensorimotor visual system: map or egocentric … Origins of size tuning in LGN neurons 10:45 Bridgeman, Dassonville, Bala, Thiem 10:45 Bonin, Mante, Carandini Lost in virtual space: estimating state uncertainty Linear and nonlinear orientation dynamics of receptive fields in cat area 17 11:00 Stankiewicz, McCabe, Kelly, Legge 11:00 Repucci, Mechler, Victor The role of effort and intention in distance perception Orientation selectivity in V1 of alert monkeys 11:15 Witt, Proffitt, Epstein 11:15 Gur, Kagan, Snodderly The effects of restricted viewing conditions on egocentric distance judgments A new quantitative analysis of simple cell space-time receptive fields 11:30 Creem-Regehr, Willemsen, Gooch, Thompson 11:30 Westover, Anderson, DeAngelis Interactions of motion parallax and ground contact in specifying distance in… Transformation of perceptual activity into saccade-related activity in the… 11:45 Ni, Braunstein, Andersen 11:45 Supèr, Spekreijse, Lamme Compression of distance judgments when viewing virtual environments… Chromatic tuning of binocular neurons in early visual cortex 12:00 Thompson, Gooch, Willemsen, Creem-Regehr, Loomis, Beall 12:00 Peirce, Solomon, Forte, Krauskopf, Lennie Visual STM – North Hall Multisensory Integration – South Hall Visual short-term memory capacity for orientations is lower for oriented… A biologically plausible model of cue combination 1:30 Alvarez, Cavanagh 1:30 Banks, Ernst Limitations of visual memory in spatial frequency discrimination Learning to fuse unrelated cues 1:45 Wright, Alston 1:45 Ernsts, Jäkel Placing objects at different depths increases visual short-term memory… Visual cortex as a site of cross-modal integration 2:00 Xu, Nakayama 2:00 Shams, Tanaka, Rees, Iwaki, Shimojo, Inui Task relevance of object features modulates the content of visual working… Recalibration of audiovisual simultaneity by adaptation to a constant time lag 2:15 Droll, Hayhoe, Triesch, Sullivan 2:15 Fujisaki, Shimojo, Kashino, Nishida Eye Movements are Cheaper than Memory: Evidence from a Scene… Kinesthetic Visual Capture Induced by Apparent Motion 2:30 Gajewski, Henderson 2:30 Somers, McNally Incidental memory in visual search: both targets and rejected distractors… Multisensory integration in self-motion 2:45 Williams, Henderson, Zacks 2:45 Sun, Campos, Chan, Zhang, Lee Attention Mechanisms – North Hall Natural Images – South Hall Competitive selection of superimposed stimuli moving through space Ecological Statistics of Grouping by Similarity 3:15 Fallah, Stoner, Reynolds 3:15 Fowlkes, Martin, Malik Macaque area V4 neurons translate the attended features of a visual… Independent component analysis of natural time-varying images under the… 3:30 mirabella, Samengo, Bertini, Kilavik, Frilli, Fanini, Chelazzi 3:30 Dastjerdi, Dong The monkey's lateral intraparietal area: parallel representations and… No suppression, only dynamic decorrelation: saccadic effects on the visual… 3:45 Gottlieb 3:45 Dong, Simpson, Weyand Toward an embedded process metatheory of selective attention Extra-classical receptive field properties: Relation to natural scene… 4:00 Luck, Vogel, Woodman, Hyun 4:00 Zetzsche, Nuding Search for motion direction: pop-out and set-size dependencies explained… Effects of image structure on perceived contrast and cortical activity in… 4:15 Burr, Veghese, Morrone, Baldassi 4:15 Olman, Ugurbil, Kersten Perisaccadic V1 activity is not due to shifting visuo-spatial attention Textural statistics and surface perception 4:30 Vallines, Bodis-Wollner, Oezyurt, Rutschmann, Greenlee 4:30 Adelson Poster Session – Municipal Audiitorium Authors Present: 5:00 – 7:00 pm Spatial Vision: Context, Contrast, Detection & Models, Receptive Fields, Perception and Action, Motion 2: Speed, Heading, Physiology, Lightness/Shading, Eye Movement Mechanisms, Color, Binocular Vision, Attention 2 2 Sunday PROGRAM SUMMARY Sunday Binocular Vision – North Hall Lighting and Shading – South Hall Depth-dependent contrast gain-control Lightness constancy in 4-month-old infants: The effect of a local luminance… 9:00 Aslin, Jacobs, Battaglia 9:00 Chien, Bronson-Castain Motion prolongs perceptual dominance during binocular rivalry The highest luminance anchoring rule in lightness perception: A… 9:15 Blake, Sobel 9:15 Rudd, Zemach Traveling waves of activity in V1 correlate with perceptual dominance during… fMRI of brightness perception 9:30 Lee, Blake, Heeger 9:30 Cornelissen, Wade, Dougherty, Wandell A dynamical hierarchy of rivalry stages in vision Layered image representations and the perception of lightness 9:45 Wilson 9:45 Anderson, Winawer Fractal statistics of perceptual switching time series. How does the perception of shape interact with the perception of shiny… 10:00 White, Gao, Zhou 10:00 Hartung, Kersten Stochastic resonance in bistable binocular rivalry. Blackshot: An unexpected dimension of human sensitivity to contrast 10:15 Kim, Grabowecky, Suzuki 10:15 Landy, Chubb, Econopouly Stereo – North Hall Eye Movements - Cognitive – South Hall Sensitivity to interocular delay in binocular V1 neurons Flashing scenes and moving windows: An effect of initial scene gist on eye… 10:45 Cumming, Read 10:45 Castelhano, Henderson Reduced binocular disparity selectivity of V4 neurons to anti-correlated… Visual search: Gaze contingent displays and optimal search strategies 11:00 Tanabe, Fujita 11:00 Geisler, Perry, Najemnik The cost of resolving stereo ambiguity The accumulation of visual information driving the 1st saccade during visual… 11:15 McKee, Farell, Verghese 11:15 Caspi, Beutter, Eckstein The effect of absolute and relative disparity noise on stereoacuity Target tagging in visual search 11:30 Foulkes, Parker 11:30 Körner, Gilchrist Disparity gradient between the target and its surroundings defines depth… Dynamic allocation of visual attention during the execution of sequences of… 11:45 Petrov, Glennerster 11:45 Gersch, Kowler, Dosher Focus cues to display distance affect perceived depth from disparity Saccadic decision-rate distributions reveal competition process 12:00 Watt, Akeley, Banks 12:00 Beintema, Van Loon, Hooge, Van den Berg Poster Session – Municipal Audiitorium Authors Present: 1:30 – 3:30 pm Surfaces, Space Perception, Object Recognition, Natural Images, Motion 3: Low-level, Time, Biological, Locomotion, Attention 3, Adaption/Aftereffects Shape and Depth – North Hall Biological Motion – South Hall How image statistics drive shape-from-texture and shape-from-specularity Brain activity reflects perceptual learning of point-light biological motion 3:30 Fleming, Torralba, Dror, Adelson 3:30 Grossman, Kim, Blake Can we see the shape of a mirror? 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