Ground-plane influences on size estimation in early visual processing

Vision Research

Volumn 50, Issue 16, 2010, Pages 1510-1518

  Champion, Rebecca A ^a   Warren, Paul A ^a,b  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cue combination; Depth; Distance; Ground plane; Size; Size constancy; Visual search

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPTH PERCEPTION; DISTANCE PERCEPTION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPONSE TIME; SIMULATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL ORIENTATION; VISUAL STIMULATION; VOLUNTEER;

CUES; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); HUMANS; REACTION TIME; SIZE PERCEPTION; SPACE PERCEPTION;

EID: 77954312925     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2010.05.001     Document Type: Article

References (25)

1. Aks D.J., Enns J.T. Visual search for size is influenced by a background texture gradient. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance 1996, 22:1467-1481.
2. Bian Z., Braunstein M.L., Andersen G.J. The ground dominance effect in the perception of 3-D layout. Perception and Psychophysics 2005, 67:802-815.
3. Bian Z., Braunstein M.L., Andersen G.J. The ground dominance effect in the perception of relative distance in 3-D scenes is mainly due to characteristics of the ground surface. Perception and Psychophysics 2006, 68:1297-1309.
4. Bruno N., Cutting J.E. Minimodularity and the perception of layout. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General 1988, 117:161-170.
5. Champion R.A., Adams W.J. Modification of the convexity prior but not the light-from-above prior in visual search with shaded objects. Journal of Vision 2007, 7(13):1-10. (10).
6. Champion R.A., Warren P.A. Rapid size scaling in visual search. Vision Research 2008, 48:1820-1830.
7. Cutting J.E., Vishton P.M. Perceiving layout and knowing distances: The integration, relative potency, and contextual use of different information about depth. Perception of space and motion 1995, Vol. 5. Academic Press, San Diego, CA. W. Epstein, S. Rogers (Eds.).
8. Epstein W., Park J., Casey A. The current status of the size-distance hypothesis. Psychological Bulletin 1961, 58:491-514.
9. Gibson J.J. The perception of the visual world 1950, Houghton-Mifflin, Boston.
10. Gogel W.C. The sensing of retinal size. Vision Research 1969, 9:1079-1094.
11. Gregory R.L. Eye and brain 1998, Oxford University Press, Oxford.
12. Ittelson W.H. The constancies in perceptual theory. Psychological Review 1951, 58:285-294.
13. Kilpatrick F.P., Ittelson W.H. The size-distance invariance hypothesis. Psychological Review 1953, 60:223-231.
14. Kleffner D.A., Ramachandran V.S. On the perception of shape from shading. Perception & Psychophysics 1992, 52:18-36.
15. Landy M.S., Maloney L.T., Johnston E.B., Young M. Measurement and modeling of depth cue combination: In defense of weak fusion. Vision Research 1995, 35:389-412.
16. Ma W.J., Beck J., Latham P., Pouget A. Bayesian inference with probabilistic population codes. Nature Neuroscience 2006, 9:1432-1438.
17. Mamassian P., Landy M.S. Observer biases in the 3D interpretation of line drawings. Vision Research 1998, 38:2817-2832.
18. McCarley J.S., He Z.J. Asymmetry in 3-D perceptual organization: Ground-like surface superior to ceiling-like surface. Perception & Psychophysics 2000, 62:540-549.
19. Morita H., Kumada T. Effects of pictorially-defined surfaces on visual search. Vision Research 2003, 43:1869-1877.
20. Philbeck J.W., Loomis J.M. Comparison of two indicators of perceived egocentric distance under full-cue and reduced-cue conditions. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance 1997, 23:72-85.
21. Sousa R., Brenner E., Smeets J.B.J. Slant cue are combined early in visual processing: Evidence from visual search. Vision Research 2009, 49:257-261.
22. Sun J., Perona P. Where is the sun. Nature Neuroscience 1998, 1:183-184.
23. Sun J., Perona P. Preattentive perception of elementary three-dimensional Shapes. Vision Research 1996, 36:2515-2529.
24. Treisman A.M., Gelade G. A feature-integration theory of attention. Cognitive Psychology 1980, 12:97-136.
25. Wolfe J.M. What can 1 million trials tell us about visual search?. Psychological Science 1998, 9:33-39.