The utility of image descriptions in the initial stages of vision: A case study of printed text

British Journal of Psychology

Volumn 101, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 1-26

  Watt, Roger J ^a   Dakin, Steven C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STIRLING   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 75849162990     PISSN: 20448295     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1348/000712608X379070     Document Type: Article

References (43)

1. Baddeley, R. J. (1997). The correlational structure of natural images and the calibration of spatial representations. Cognitive Science, 21, 351-372.
2. Campbell, F. W., & Robson, J. G. (1968). Application of fourier analysis to the visibility of gratings. The Journal of Physiology, 197, 551-566.
3. Chung, S. T. L. (2004). Reading speed benefits from increased vertical word spacing in normal peripheral vision. Optometry and Vision Science, 81, 525-535.
4. Chung, S. T. L., Legge, G. E., & Tjan, B. S. (2002). Spatial-frequency characteristics of letter identification in central and peripheral vision. Vision Research, 42, 2137-2152
5. Chung, S. T. L., & Tjan, B. S. (2007). Shift on spatial scale in identifying crowded letters. Vision Research, 47, 437-451.
6. Claessens, P. M., & Wagemans, J. (2005). Perceptual grouping in Gabor lattices: Proximity and alignment. Perception and Psychophysics, 67, 1446-1459.
7. Epelboim, J., Booth, J. R., & Steinman, R. M. (1994). Reading unspaced text: Implications for theories of reading eye movements. Vision Research, 34, 1735-1766.
8. Geisler, W. S. (2008). Visual perception and the statistical properties of natural scenes. Annual Review of Psychology, 59, 101-1026.
9. Georgeson, M. A., May, K. A., Freeman, T. C. A., & Hesse, G. S. (2007). From filters to features: Scale-space analysis of edge and blur coding in human vision. Journal of Vision, 7(13), 1-21.
10. Groff, P. (1975). Research in brief: Shapes as cues to word recognition. Visible Language, 9(1), 67-71.
11. Haber, R. N., & Haber, L. R. (1981a). The shape of a word can specify its meaning. Reading Research Quarterly, 16, 334-345.
12. Haber, R. N., & Haber, L. R. (1981b). Visual components of the Reading Process. Visible Language, 15,147-182.
13. Haber, L. R., Haber, R. N., & Furlin, K. R. (1983). Word length and word shape as sources of information in reading. Reading Research Quarterly, 18, 165-189.
14. Hartley, J., & Burnhill, P. (1977). Fifty guide-lines for improving instructional text. Innovations in Education and Teaching International, 14, 65-73.
15. Heeger, D. J. (1992). Normalization of cell responses in cat striate cortex. Visual Neuroscience, 9, 181-197.
16. Hubel, D. H., & Wiesel, T. N. (1968). Receptive fields and functional architecture of monkey striate cortex. Journal of Physiology, 195, 215-243.
17. Hubel, D. H., & Wiesel, T. N. (1977). Functional architecture of the macaque monkey visual cortex. Ferrier Lecture, Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B, 198, 1-59
18. Kubovy, M., Holcombe, A. O., & Wagemans, J. (1998). On the lawfulness of grouping by proximity. Cognitive Psychology, 35, 71-98.
19. Leech, G., Rayson, A., & Wilson, A. (2001). Word frequencies in written and spoken English: Based on the British National Corpus. London: Longman, http://www.comp.lancs.ac.uk/ ucrel/bncfreq/
20. Legge, G. E. (2007). Psychophysics of reading in normal and low vision. Mahwah, NJ/London: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
21. Legge, G. E., Pelli, D. G., Rubin, G. S., & Schleske, M. M. (1985). Psychophysics of reading I. Normal vision. Vision Research, 25, 239-252.
22. Li, W., & Gilbert, C. D. (2002). Global contour saliency and local colinear interactions. Journal of Neurophysiology, 88, 2846-2856.
23. Majaj, N. J., Pelli, D. G., Kurshan, P., & Palomares, M. (2002). The role of spatial-frequency channels in letter identification. Vision Research, 42, 1165-1184.
24. Marr, D. (1976). Early processing of visual information. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London B, 275, 483-524.
25. Marr, D. (1982). Vision: A computational investigation into the human representation and processing of visual information. San Francisco: W.H. Freeman and Co.
26. Marr, D., & Hildreth, E. (1980). Theory of edge detection. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, 197, 441-475.
27. Mayall, K., Humphreys, G. W., & Olson, A. (1997). Disruption to word or letter processing? The origins of case-mixing effects. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition., 23, 1275-1286.
28. Morrone, M. C., & Burr, D. C. (1988). Feature detection in human vision: A phase-dependent energy model. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series B, 235, 221-245.
29. Paap, K. R., Newsome, S. L., & Noel, R. W. (1984). Word shape's in poor shape for the race to the lexicon. Journal of Experimental Psychology. Human Perception and Performance, 10, 13-28.
30. Pelli, D. G., Burns, C. W., Farell, B., & Moore-Page, D. C. (2006). Detecting features and identifying letters. Vision Research, 46(28), 4646-4674.
31. Pelli D.G. & Tillman K.A. (2007). Parts, wholes, and context in reading: A triple dissociation. PLoS ONE 2(8): e680. http://www.plosone.org/doi/pone.0000680
32. Polat, U., & Sagi, D. (1993). Lateral interactions between spatial channels: Suppression and facilitation revealed by lateral masking experiments. Vision Research, 33, 993-999
33. Rayner, K., Fischer, M. H., & Pollatsek, A. (1998). Unspaced text interferes with both word identification and eye movement control. Vision Research, 38, 1129-1144
34. Simoncelli, E. P., & Olshausen, B. A. (2001). Natural image statistics and neural representation. Annual Review of Neuroscience, 24, 1193-1216.
35. Solomon, J. A., & Pelli, D. G. (1994). The visual filter mediating letter identification. Nature, 369, 395-397.
36. Underwood, G., & Bargh, K. (1982). Word shape, orthographic regularity, and contextual interactions in a reading task. Cognition, 12, 197-209.
37. Watt, R. J. (1988). Visual processing: Computational, psychological and cognitive research. London: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
38. Watt, R. J. (1991). Understanding vision. London: Academic Press.
39. Watt, R. J., & Morgan, M. J. (1985). A theory of the primitive spatial code in human vision. Vision Research, 25, 1661-1674.
40. Watt, R. J., & Phillips, W. A. (2000). The function of dynamic grouping in vision. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 4, 447-454.
41. Wilkins, A. J., Smith, J., Willison, C. K., & Beare, T. (2008). Stripes within words affect reading. Perception, 36, 1788-1803.
42. Wilson, H. R., & Bergen, J. R. (1979). A four mechanism model for threshold spatial vision. Vision Research, 19, 19-32.
43. Yen, S., & Finkel, L. H. (1998). Extraction of perceptually salient contours by striate cortical networks. Vision Research, 38, 719-741.