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Lateralised repetition priming for face recognition: priming occurs in the right hemisphere only Article (Published Version) Bourne, V J and Hole, G J (2003) Lateralised repetition priming for face recognition: priming occurs in the right hemisphere only. Perception, 32. p. 173. This version is available from Sussex Research Online: http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/14533/ This document is made available in accordance with publisher policies and may differ from the published version or from the version of record. If you wish to cite this item you are advised to consult the publisher’s version. Please see the URL above for details on accessing the published version. Copyright and reuse: Sussex Research Online is a digital repository of the research output of the University. Copyright and all moral rights to the version of the paper presented here belong to the individual author(s) and/or other copyright owners. To the extent reasonable and practicable, the material made available in SRO has been checked for eligibility before being made available. Copies of full text items generally can be reproduced, displayed or performed and given to third parties in any format or medium for personal research or study, educational, or not-for-profit purposes without prior permission or charge, provided that the authors, title and full bibliographic details are credited, a hyperlink and/or URL is given for the original metadata page and the content is not changed in any way. http://sro.sussex.ac.uk 26 EUROPEAN CONFERENCE ON VISUAL PERCEPTION Paris, 1 - 5 September 2003 Abstracts Perception, 2003, volume 32, supplement, pages 1 ^ 186 Twenty-six European Conference on Visual Perception Paris, France 1 ^ 5 September 2003 Abstracts SYMPOSIA AND ORAL PRESENTATIONS MONDAY FRIDAY The Perception lecture (P Cavanagh) 1 ORAL PRESENTATIONS Attention and awareness 43 TUESDAY Low-level processes 46 INVITED SYMPOSIUM 1 Top ^ down, bottom ^ up, and sideways 49 Algorithmic and biological vision 1 interactions (in honour INVITED SYMPOSIUM 2 of Richard Gregory) Attention and decision processes 3 Lightness, brightness, shading, 51 in visual perception transparency 2 ORAL PRESENTATIONS Natural images 54 Learning, memory, development, and 5 Face perception 56 ageing Objecthood 2 58 Multisensory perception 8 Action and perception, vection, optic 10 POSTERS flow TUESDAY Binocular vision, depth, stereo and 12 Action, self-motion, optic flow, and 61 space perception space perception Binocular vision, stereo, depth and 73 WEDNESDAY space perception INVITED SYMPOSIUM 3 Development and ageing, learning, 85 Multisensory and sensorimotor 15 and memory interactions Cross-modal interactions 94 INVITED SYMPOSIUM 4 Neuropsychology of visual extinction 17 WESNESDAY ORAL PRESENTATIONS Motionölow level 100 Motionölow level 19 Eye movements and perception 107 Eye movements and perception 22 Objecthood 114 Objecthood 1 25 Ambiguous perception, illusions, and art 123 Attention 1 131 THURSDAY INVITED SYMPOSIUM 5 THURSDAY Perceptual learning 29 Attention 2 139 INVITED SYMPOSIUM 6 Motionöhigh level 142 The experience of seeing: physiology, 31 Low-level processesöcolour 146 psychophysics, and philosophy Lightness, brightness, shading, 150 ORAL PRESENTATIONS transparency Motionöhigh level 33 Low-level processesöspatiotemporal 156 Clinical 36 aspects Colour (in memory of Dick Cavonius) 38 From neurons to phenomenology 166 Lightness, brightness, shading, 40 Natural scenes 168 transparency 1 Face perception 172 Clinical 175 Author index 181 APPERCEPTIONSöAcolour16-pageguidetotheartexhibitionstagedinconjunctionwithECVP03 follows the Author index Organising committee Andrei Gorea Jean Bullier Glyn Humphreys Yves Fre¨ gnac Roberto Casati John Palmer John Daugman Dov Sagi Jacques Droulez Daniel Shulz Olivier Faugeras Simon Thorpe Scientific committee T Agostini M Greenlee B Rogers A Ahumada JHarris A Ruppertsberg C Beauvillain M Hayhoe DSagi I Bodis-Wollner AHurlbert ASekuler EBrenner A Johnston E Sieroff E Bricolo K Knoblauch DSimons HBu« lthoff ZKourtzi J Solomon JBullier I Kovacs D Spinelli DBurr A Logvinenko S Thorpe M Carrasco JLorenceau S Tripathy E Castet P Mamassian TTros¨ cianko MFahle GMasson CTyler J Frisby JMollon A Vassilev K Gegenfurtner MMorgan F Vital-Durand MGeorgeson CMorrone F Vitu WGerbino J Ninio M Wexler A Gilchrist AOliva T Watanabe AGorea LOlzak SWuerger ECVP 2003 is organised under the auspices of Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique Ministe© re de la Recherche Institut National de la Sante¨ et de la Recherche Me¨ dicale Ville de Paris Supporting organisations Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) Ministe© re de la De¨ fense ^ DGA Commission of the European Community Ministe© re de la Recherche Eè lectricite¨ de France (EDF) Pion Ltd ESSILOR Re¨ gion Iêle de France Fe¨ de¨ ration des Aveugles et des Handicape¨ s Socie¨ te¨ des Neurosciences Franc°aises Visuels de France Socie¨ te¨ Franc° aise d'Optique Physiologique Institut National de la Sante¨ et de la Universite¨ Rene¨ Descartes Recherche Me¨ dicale (INSERM) Ville de Boulogne-Billancourt International Brain Research Organization (IBRO) Ville de Paris Acknowledgements Particular thanks to the Laboratoire de Psychologie Expe¨ rimentale (UMR 8581) and the kind collaboration of Aline Bompas (coordinator). ECVP The European Conference on Visual Perception is an annual event. Previous conferences took place in: 1978 Marburg (D) 1987 Varna (BG) 1996 Strasbourg (F) 1979 Noordwijkerhout (NL) 1988 Bristol (GB) 1997 Helsinki (FIN) 1980 Brighton (GB) 1989 Zichron Yaakov (IL) 1998 Oxford (GB) 1981 Gouvieux (F) 1990 Paris (F) 1999 Trieste (I) 1982 Leuven (B) 1991 Vilnius (LT) 2000 Groningen (NL) 1983 Lucca (I) 1992 Pisa (I) 2001 Kus°adas| (TR) 1984 Cambridge (GB) 1993 Edinburgh (GB) 2002 Glasgow (GB) 1985 Pen¬ iscola (E) 1994 Eindhoven (NL) 1986 Bad Nauheim (D) 1995 Tu« bingen (D) ß 2003 a Pion publication printed in Great Britain The Perception Lecture; Invited Symposium 1: Algorithmic and biological vision 1 DOI:10.1068/ecvp03a ECVP '03 Abstracts MONDAY THE LECTURE ^ The language of vision P Cavanagh (Department of Psychology, Harvard University, 33 Kirkland Street, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA; e-mail: [email protected]) One role of visual attention is the construction of a visual narrative, a description of visual events in a language-like format. Recent work on the architecture of attention shows that it has simultaneous access to multiple selections, and luckily so, because other studies show that it is impossible to scrutinise the details within a single selection. As a result, the integration of elements, the derivation of their relations, and the actions they are engaged in is only possible by comparing information across multiple selections. The product of this cross-selection is a language-like description of the visual event that is then exported to other modules in the brain. A basic distinction immediately arises between objects (`nouns') that can be selected rapidly with a single operation, and actions (`verbs') that always require multiple selections. Results from parietal patients demonstrate a candidate case of syntax for motion and transient events. [Supported by NIH EY09258.] TUESDAY INVITED SYMPOSIUM 1 ALGORITHMIC AND BIOLOGICAL VISION: POINTS OF ENCOUNTER ^ Selection of kernel location, frequency, and orientation parameters of 2-D Gabor wavelets for face recognition B Gokberk, L Akarun, E Alpaydin (Department of Computer Engineering, Bogazici University, PK 2, TR 34342 Bebek, Istanbul, Turkey; e-mail: [email protected]) In local feature-based face-recognition systems, the topographical locations of feature extractors directly affect the discriminative power of a recogniser. Better recognition accuracy can be achieved by the determination of the positions of salient image locations. Most of the facial-feature-selection algorithms in the literature work with two assumptions: one, that the importance of each feature is independent of the other features; and, two, that the kernels should be located at fiducial points. Under these assumptions, one can only get a suboptimal solution. Here, we present a methodology that tries to overcome this problem by relaxing the two assumptions by using a formalism of subset selection problem. In addition to the topographical information, resolution and orientation are also the two important parameters of a feature extractor, since face contains features having different orientation and resolution. Therefore, it is natural to design a feature extractor which takes into account these characteristics of faces. Among several alternatives, 2-D Gabor wavelets are very suitable for this task. The selection of resolution and orientation parameters at specific face locations is also carried out by a supervised sequential floating subset search. This step concludes our two-level feature selection methodology, in which the first step extracts topographical importance, and the second step extracts frequency and orientation infor- mation. Experiments on the FERET data set are presented, and the validity of the approach is discussed. ^ Non-classical receptive field inhibition and contour detection N Petkov, M A Westenberg, C Grigorescu (Institute of Mathematics and Computing Science, University of Groningen, PO Box 800, NL 9700 AV Groningen, The Netherlands; e-mail: [email protected]; website: www.cs.rug.nl/petkov) Various visual effects show that the perception of an edge or a line can be influenced by other such stimuli in the surroundings. Such effects
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