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Models of crowding: a comparative study

Michael Herzog, Gregory Francis, Adrien Christophe Doerig, Aaron Michael Clarke

In crowding, the perception of an object deteriorates in the presence of nearby elements. Obviously, crowding is a ubiquitous phenomenon, since elements are rarely seen in isolation. Despite this ubiquity, there exists no consensus on how to model crowding ...

2016

Contour erasure and filling-in: Old simulations account for most new observations

Gregory Francis

Three recent studies used similar stimulus sequences to investigate mechanisms for brightness perception. Anstis and Greenlee (2014) demonstrated that adaptation to a flickering black and white outline erased the visibility of a subsequent target shape def ...

Pion Ltd2015

Excess success for three related papers on racial bias

Gregory Francis

Three related articles reported that racial bias altered perceptual experience and influenced decision-making. These findings have been applied to training programs for law enforcement, and elsewhere, to mitigate racial bias. However, a statistical analysi ...

Frontiers Media2015

Release of crowding by pattern completion

Michael Herzog, Gregory Francis, Mauro Manassi

In crowding, target perception deteriorates in the presence of flanking elements. Crowding is classically explained by low-level mechanisms such as pooling or feature substitution. However, we have previously shown that perceptual grouping between the targ ...

Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology2015

Crowding, patterns, and recurrent processing

Michael Herzog, Gregory Francis, Mauro Manassi

Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology2015

Visual crowding illustrates the inadequacy of local vs. global and feedforward vs. feedback distinctions in modeling visual perception

Michael Herzog, Gregory Francis, Aaron Michael Clarke

Experimentalists tend to classify models of visual perception as being either local or global, and involving either feedforward or feedback processing. We argue that these distinctions are not as helpful as they might appear, and we illustrate these issues ...

Frontiers Media2014

Excess Success for Psychology Articles in the Journal Science

Gregory Francis

This article describes a systematic analysis of the relationship between empirical data and theoretical conclusions for a set of experimental psychology articles published in the journal Science between 2005-2012. When the success rate of a set of empirica ...

Public Library of Science2014

Too much success for recent groundbreaking epigenetic experiments

Gregory Francis

An article reporting statistical evidence for epigenetic transfer of learned behavior has important implications, if true. With random sampling, real effects do not always result in rejection of the null hypothesis, but the reported experiments were unifor ...

Genetics Society of America2014

Testing dynamical models of vision

Michael Herzog, Gregory Francis, Johannes Rüter

Most models of vision focus either on the spatial or temporal aspects of visual processing and neglect the other component. A variety of studies have shown, however, that spatial and temporal processing cannot easily be separated. The shine-through effect ...

Elsevier2011

Combining simultaneous with temporal masking

Michael Herzog, Gregory Francis

Simultaneous and temporal masking are two frequently used techniques in psychology and vision science. Although there are many studies and theories related to each masking technique, there are no systematic investigations of their mutual relationship, even ...

American Psychological Association2009

The roles of mask luminance and perceptual grouping in visual backward masking

Michael Herzog, Gregory Francis

Visual backward masking is a commonly used technique in vision research and psychology. There are two distinct types of masking. Either masking is strongest for a simultaneous presentation of the target and the mask (A-type masking) or masking is strongest ...

Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology2009

Effects of temporal integration masking on the shape of visual backward functions

Gregory Francis

Many studies of cognition and perception use a visual mask to explore the dynamics of information processing of a target. Especially important in these applications is the time between the target and mask stimuli. A plot of some measure of target visibilit ...

2008

Modeling both spatial and temporal aspects of visual microgenesis

Michael Herzog, Gregory Francis

2008

What is the strength of a mask in visual metacontrast masking?

Michael Herzog, Gregory Francis

After more than a century of research, the mechanisms underlying visual masking are still hotly debated. One key characteristic of masking is that variations in the stimulus onset asynchrony (SOA) between the target and the mask can lead to either monotoni ...

Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology2007

Visual masking and the dynamics of human perception, cognition, and consciousness: A century of progress, a contemporary synthesis, and future directions

Michael Herzog, Gregory Francis

The 1990s, the "decade of the brain", witnessed major advances in the study of visual perception, cognition, and consciousness. Impressive techniques in neurophysiology, neuroanatomy, neuropsychology, electrophysiology, psychophysics and brain-imaging were ...

Vizja Press & IT2007

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