Six-Month-Old Infants' Perception of the Hollow Face Illusion: Evidence for a General Convexity Bias

Perception ◽  
10.1068/p7689 ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 43 (11) ◽  
pp. 1177-1190 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sherryse L Corrow ◽  
Jordan Mathison ◽  
Carl E Granrud ◽  
Albert Yonas
Keyword(s):  
Visual System ◽  
Binocular Viewing ◽  
Viewing Condition ◽  
Binocular Condition ◽  
General Convexity ◽  
As If

Corrow, Granrud, Mathison, and Yonas (2011, Perception, 40, 1376–1383) found evidence that 6-month-old infants perceive the hollow face illusion. In the present study we asked whether 6-month-old infants perceive illusory depth reversal for a nonface object and whether infants' perception of the hollow face illusion is affected by mask orientation inversion. In experiment 1 infants viewed a concave bowl, and their reaches were recorded under monocular and binocular viewing conditions. Infants reached to the bowl as if it were convex significantly more often in the monocular than in the binocular viewing condition. These results suggest that infants perceive illusory depth reversal with a nonface stimulus and that the infant visual system has a bias to perceive objects as convex. Infants in experiment 2 viewed a concave face-like mask in upright and inverted orientations. Infants reached to the display as if it were convex more in the monocular than in the binocular condition; however, mask orientation had no effect on reaching. Previous findings that adults' perception of the hollow face illusion is affected by mask orientation inversion have been interpreted as evidence of stored-knowledge influences on perception. However, we found no evidence of such influences in infants, suggesting that their perception of this illusion may not be affected by stored knowledge, and that perceived depth reversal is not face-specific in infants.

scholarly journals Computational experiment of error diffusion dithering for depth reduction in images

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 9-13
Author(s):  
Leonardo Rezende Costa
Keyword(s):  
Visual System ◽  
Human Visual System ◽  
Computational Experiment ◽  
White Paper ◽  
Error Diffusion ◽  
Visual Effect ◽  
Black And White ◽  
Halftone Images ◽  
Depth Reduction ◽  
As If

The halftone technique is a process that employs patterns formed by black and white dots to reduce the number of gray levels in an image. Due to the tendency of the human visual system to soften the distinction between points with different shades, the patterns of black and white dots produce a visual effect as if the image were composed of shades of gray and dark. This technique is quite old and is widely used in printing images in newspapers and magazines, in which only black (ink) and white (paper) levels are needed. There are several methods for generating halftone images. In this article we explore dithering with error diffusion and an analysis of different halftone techniques is presented using error diffusion to change the depth of the image. The results showed that the depth of the image changes 1/8 per channel, this halftone technique can be used to reduce an image weight, losing information but achieving good results, depending on the context. ontext.

scholarly journals Why Do Line Drawings Work? A Realism Hypothesis

Perception ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 49 (4) ◽  
pp. 439-451 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aaron Hertzmann
Keyword(s):  
Visual System ◽  
Human Visual System ◽  
Line Drawing ◽  
Natural World ◽  
Human Observer ◽  
Object Identity ◽  
Line Drawings ◽  
3D Shape ◽  
Realistic Images ◽  
As If

Why is it that we can recognize object identity and 3D shape from line drawings, even though they do not exist in the natural world? This article hypothesizes that the human visual system perceives line drawings as if they were approximately realistic images. Moreover, the techniques of line drawing are chosen to accurately convey shape to a human observer. Several implications and variants of this hypothesis are explored.

Examining the effects of stimulus location and monocular-binocular viewing on the sound-induced flash illusion

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jenna Cao ◽  
Nickolas F. Goenadi ◽  
Emma L. Neto ◽  
Isabel R. Shapiro
Keyword(s):  
Visual Stimulus ◽  
Representative Sample ◽  
Stimulus Location ◽  
Audiovisual Integration ◽  
Binocular Viewing ◽  
Monocular Viewing ◽  
Viewing Condition ◽  
Integration Model ◽  
Future Studies ◽  
Data Analyses

The present study aimed to determine whether stimulus location (central or peripheral) or eye viewing condition (binocular, dominant monocular, or non-dominant monocular) had a greater magnitude of effect on perception of the sound-induced flash illusion (SIFI). Both the fission illusion (when one flash paired with two beeps is perceived as two flashes) and the fusion illusion (when two flashes paired with one beep are perceived as one flash) were measured in all location and eye viewing conditions. Analyses revealed significant fission and fusion illusions in all conditions. Additionally, we found significant differences in central and peripheral criterion levels that were driven by differences between binocular and monocular viewing conditions. Data analyses demonstrated that location of the visual stimulus had a greater magnitude of effect on the illusion than eye viewing condition. Our findings add to the growing literature supporting the mechanisms underlying central-peripheral eccentricity, and contradict the optimal integration model of the SIFI. The implications of these results would help better our understanding of the SIFI and audiovisual integration. Future studies must be conducted to confirm these results in a more representative sample.

The Two-Body Inversion Effect

2017 ◽  
Vol 28 (3) ◽  
pp. 369-379 ◽  
Author(s):  
Liuba Papeo ◽  
Timo Stein ◽  
Salvador Soto-Faraco
Keyword(s):  
Visual System ◽  
Intermediate Level ◽  
Inversion Effect ◽  
Configural Processing ◽  
Relative Positioning ◽  
Body Perception ◽  
Social Actions ◽  
Multiple Object ◽  
As If

How does one perceive groups of people? It is known that functionally interacting objects (e.g., a glass and a pitcher tilted as if pouring water into it) are perceptually grouped. Here, we showed that processing of multiple human bodies is also influenced by their relative positioning. In a series of categorization experiments, bodies facing each other (seemingly interacting) were recognized more accurately than bodies facing away from each other (noninteracting). Moreover, recognition of facing body dyads (but not nonfacing body dyads) was strongly impaired when those stimuli were inverted, similar to what has been found for individual bodies. This inversion effect demonstrates sensitivity of the visual system to facing body dyads in their common upright configuration and might imply recruitment of configural processing (i.e., processing of the overall body configuration without prior part-by-part analysis). These findings suggest that facing dyads are represented as one structured unit, which may be the intermediate level of representation between multiple-object (body) perception and representation of social actions.

Moving Stimuli Define the Shape of Stationary Chromatic Patterns

Perception ◽  
1997 ◽  
Vol 26 (11) ◽  
pp. 1413-1422 ◽  
Author(s):  
Naokazu Goda ◽  
Yoshimichi Ejima
Keyword(s):  
Visual System ◽  
Capture Effect ◽  
Moving Stimuli ◽  
Imaginary Line ◽  
As If

A study is reported of phenomena involved in perceptually unified organisation of a stationary chromatic pattern and a moving black outline or dot pattern. When the corners of the outline pattern were temporally oscillated on a stationary chromatic square, the chromatic border appeared to follow the moving outline, as if captured by it. This capture effect was also observed with moving dots: the chromatic border was defined by an imaginary line connecting the moving dots. Both capture effects occur over a region that becomes wider with increasing velocity of the oscillation. These observations suggest that the visual system effectively uses information from moving features to define the shape of overlapping chromatic image regions.

scholarly journals 3-D Illusory Phenomena with Binocular Viewing and Computer Vision

1992 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 249-255
Author(s):  
Masanori Idesawa ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Computer Vision ◽  
Visual System ◽  
Human Visual System ◽  
Visual Function ◽  
Vision System ◽  
Visual Stimuli ◽  
Space Perception ◽  
Binocular Viewing ◽  
Depth Information ◽  
New Paradigm

The human visual system can perceive 3-D information of an object by using disparity between two eyes, gradient of illumination (shading), occlusion, textures and their perspective and so on. Consequently, the disparity and the occlusion observed with binocular viewing seems to be the most important cues to get 3-D information. For the artificial realization of the visual function such as in computer vision or robot vision system, it seems to be a clever way to learn from the human visual mechanism. Recently, the author found a new type of illusion. When the visual stimuli of disparity are given only partially along the contour of an object, human visual system can perceive the 3-D surface (not only plane but also curved) of the object where there are no physical visual stimuli to get depth information. The interactions between the perceived illusory surface (occlusion, intersection and transparency) can be recognized. These newly found illusory phenomena have close relations with the visual function of 3-D space perception and can provide a new paradigm in the field of computer vision and human interface.

scholarly journals Enhancement of Resolution Acuity in a Half-Binocular Viewing Condition

2010 ◽  
Vol 51 (11) ◽  
pp. 6066 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ximena Masgoret ◽  
Lisa Asper ◽  
Jack Alexander ◽  
Catherine Suttle
Keyword(s):  
Binocular Viewing ◽  
Viewing Condition

Proprioceptive and Retinal Afference Modify Postsaccadic Ocular Drift

1999 ◽  
Vol 82 (2) ◽  
pp. 551-563 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard F. Lewis ◽  
David S. Zee ◽  
Herschel P. Goldstein ◽  
Barton L. Guthrie
Keyword(s):  
Binocular Viewing ◽  
Monocular Viewing ◽  
Inferior Rectus ◽  
Binocular Fusion ◽  
Viewing Condition ◽  
Retinal Disparity ◽  
Retinal Slip ◽  
New Findings ◽  
Before And After ◽  
Superior Oblique

Drift of the eyes after saccades produces motion of images on the retina (retinal slip) that degrades visual acuity. In this study, we examined the contributions of proprioceptive and retinal afference to the suppression of postsaccadic drift induced by a unilateral ocular muscle paresis. Eye movements were recorded in three rhesus monkeys with a unilateral weakness of one vertical extraocular muscle before and after proprioceptive deafferentation of the paretic eye. Postsaccadic drift was examined in four visual states: monocular viewing with the normal eye (4-wk period); binocular viewing (2-wk period); binocular viewing with a disparity-reducing prism (2-wk period); and monocular viewing with the paretic eye (2-wk period). The muscle paresis produced vertical postsaccadic drift in the paretic eye, and this drift was suppressed in the binocular viewing condition even when the animals could not fuse. When the animals viewed binocularly with a disparity-reducing prism, the drift in the paretic eye was suppressed in two monkeys (with superior oblique pareses) but generally was enhanced in one animal (with a tenotomy of the inferior rectus). When drift movements were enhanced, they reduced the retinal disparity that was present at the end of the saccade. In the paretic-eye–viewing condition, postsaccadic drift was suppressed in the paretic eye and was induced in the normal eye. After deafferentation in the normal-eye–viewing state, there was a change in the vertical postsaccadic drift of the paretic eye. This change in drift was idiosyncratic and variably affected the amplitude and velocity of the postsaccadic drift movements of the paretic eye. Deafferentation of the paretic eye did not affect the postsaccadic drift of the normal eye nor did it impair visually mediated adaptation of postsaccadic drift. The results demonstrate several new findings concerning the roles of visual and proprioceptive afference in the control of postsaccadic drift: disconjugate adaptation of postsaccadic drift does not require binocular fusion; slow, postsaccadic drift movements that reduce retinal disparity but concurrently increase retinal slip can be induced in the binocular viewing state; postsaccadic drift is modified by proprioception from the extraocular muscles, but these modifications do not serve to minimize retinal slip or to correct errors in saccade amplitude; and visually mediated adaptation of postsaccadic drift does not require proprioceptive afference from the paretic eye.

scholarly journals Six-Month-Old Infants Perceive the Hollow-Face Illusion

Perception ◽  
10.1068/p7110 ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 40 (11) ◽  
pp. 1376-1383 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sherryse Corrow ◽  
Carl E Granrud ◽  
Jordan Mathison ◽  
Albert Yonas
Keyword(s):  
Visual System ◽  
Visual Input ◽  
Binocular Viewing ◽  
Viewing Distance

In this study we investigated infants' perception of the hollow-face illusion. 6-month-old infants were shown a concave mask under monocular and binocular viewing conditions and the direction of their reaches toward the mask was recorded. Adults typically perceive a concave mask as convex under monocular conditions but as concave under binocular conditions, depending on viewing distance. Based on previous findings that infants reach preferentially toward the parts of a display that are closest to them, we expected that, if infants perceive the hollow-face illusion as adults do, they would reach to the center of the mask when viewing it monocularly and to the edges when viewing it binocularly. The results were consistent with these predictions. Our findings indicated that the infants perceived the mask as convex when viewing it with one eye and concave when viewing it with two eyes. The results show that 6-month-old infants respond to the hollow-face illusion. Our finding suggests that, early in life, the visual system uses the constraint, or assumption, that faces are convex when interpreting visual input.

The influence of viewing eye on pseudoneglect magnitude

2001 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 391-395 ◽  
Author(s):  
MARK E. McCOURT ◽  
MATT GARLINGHOUSE ◽  
JASON BUTLER
Keyword(s):  
Spatial Attention ◽  
Significant Influence ◽  
Visuospatial Attention ◽  
Forced Choice ◽  
Line Bisection ◽  
Binocular Viewing ◽  
Central Vision ◽  
Viewing Condition ◽  
Normal Individuals ◽  
Retinotectal Projections

Various factors influence the degree of leftward error (pseudoneglect) that typifies the performance of normal individuals in line bisection tasks. This experiment reveals that the eye through which stimuli are viewed also exerts a modulating influence on spatial attention, as indexed by significant alterations in the magnitude of pseudoneglect. Using a forced-choice tachistoscopic line bisection protocol, 24 participants (12 male; 12 female) bisected horizontally oriented lines (22.6° w × 0.39° h) presented to central vision in 3 conditions: left uniocular viewing (L), right uniocular viewing (R), and binocular viewing (B). Perceived line midpoint, a measure of bisection accuracy, deviated significantly leftward of veridical ( p < .05) in all viewing conditions, confirming a tonic asymmetry of visuospatial attention in normal young observers. In addition, a significant influence of viewing condition was found (p < .05) where pseudoneglect was greatest in the L condition, followed by the B and R conditions, respectively. Analysis of the slopes of the psychometric functions revealed significantly greater bisection precision in the binocular versus uniocular viewing conditions (p < .05). The results are interpreted to suggest that phasic effects on spatial attention can be produced by uniocular viewing via asymmetric retinotectal projections. The results are consistent with activation–orientation theories of attentional asymmetry. (JINS, 2001, 7, 391–395.)

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