Form Perception

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • Adult age differences in the effects of sentence context and stimulus degradation during visual word recognition. 
  • Adult age differences in visual word recognition: semantic encoding and episodic retention. 
  • Age differences and similarities in the improvement of controlled search. 
  • Amount and duration of attentional demands during visual search. 
  • Attentive and pre-attentive aspects of figural processing. 
  • Different patterns of cognitive slowing produced by Alzheimer's disease and normal aging. 
  • Effects of ethanol, Δ(9)-tetrahydrocannabinol, or their combination on object recognition memory and object preference in adolescent and adult male rats. 
  • Figure-ground interaction in the human visual cortex. 
  • Flower bats (Glossophaga soricina) and fruit bats (Carollia perspicillata) rely on spatial cues over shapes and scents when relocating food. 
  • From retina to response: contrast sensitivity and memory retrieval during visual word recognition. 
  • Hemispheric differences in memory search. 
  • Holistic versus analytic process models: a reply. 
  • Holistic vs. attribute repetition effects in classifying stimuli. 
  • Identification and the form of multidimensional discrimination space. 
  • Imagery, encoding specificity, and prose recall in 6-year-old children. 
  • Large-scale tests of a keyed, appearance-based 3-D object recognition system. 
  • Linking object boundaries at scale: a common mechanism for size and shape judgments. 
  • Magnetic resonance imaging of anatomic and vascular characteristics in a canine model of human aging. 
  • Mapping multiple features in the population response of visual cortex. 
  • Mapping social target detection with functional magnetic resonance imaging. 
  • Natural-scene geometry predicts the perception of angles and line orientation. 
  • Neural mechanisms of top-down control during spatial and feature attention. 
  • Neurophysiology of prehension. III. Representation of object features in posterior parietal cortex of the macaque monkey. 
  • On the independence of physical and nominal codes: a correlational analysis. 
  • Perception of objects that are translating and rotating. 
  • Pre-target activity in visual cortex predicts behavioral performance on spatial and feature attention tasks. 
  • Predictive codes for forthcoming perception in the frontal cortex. 
  • Representation of stereoscopic edges in monkey visual cortex. 
  • Signal-detection analysis of hemispheric differences in visual recognition memory. 
  • Size contrast and assimilation explained by the statistics of natural scene geometry. 
  • Spatial vision in the echinoid genus Echinometra. 
  • Spatial vision in the purple sea urchin Strongylocentrotus purpuratus (Echinoidea). 
  • Subjects' expectations, individual variability, and the scanning of mental images. 
  • Superior colliculus of the tree shrew: a structural and functional subdivision into superficial and deep layers. 
  • The Müller-Lyer illusion explained by the statistics of image-source relationships. 
  • The abstraction of form in semantic categories. 
  • The neural representation of speed in macaque area MT/V5. 
  • The organophosphate pesticide chlorpyrifos affects form deprivation myopia. 
  • The orientation selectivity of color-responsive neurons in macaque V1. 
  • The perception of transparent three-dimensional objects. 
  • The time course of shape discrimination in the human brain. 
  • Why are angles misperceived? 
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  Keywords of People

  • Appelbaum, Lawrence Gregory, Associate Professor in Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Duke Science & Society
  • Johnson, Elizabeth, Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Department of Neurobiology, Neurobiology