We present a brief outline of the development of research in visual perception with the advent of new technologies up to New Media and virtual environments. There is a mutual inspiration and benefiting between fundamental and applied research and ...

The role of top-down processing on the horizontal-vertical line length illusion was examined by means of an ambiguous room with dual visual verticals. In one of the test conditions, the subjects were cued to one of the two verticals and were instructed to ...

A review is presented of modern approaches to the learning and recognition of complex patterns, including discriminant functions, neural networks, decision trees, and hidden Markov models. Next, several relational learning systems are introduced and ...

Eye movements have been studied in a Japanese Spacelab payload specialist carrying out a visual task on earth (1g gravity) before and after a space flight. The experiment was repeated in space (microgravity) using the same subject. In addition to eye ...

The present study examined the effect of the spatial configuration of local signals on motion integration across space. The perceived coherency was measured in different configurations of apertures and combinations of motion directions. The results showed ...

We assessed discomfort, time and number of saccades for reading a text superimposed to a moving background. When background moved in the main directions of reading (left to right or top to bottom), discomfort was rated significantly lower than when ...

The apparent velocity of a filmed person, walking in front of static or moving backgrounds, was estimated in 2 experiments by 18 observers. The camera either followed the walker or remained at the same position (= stabilized vs. mobile observer ...

We tested the validity of Nickalls’ formula for determining visual latency difference by using two rotating Pulfrich techniques: (A) varying viewing distance while keeping target angular velocity constant (33 rev/min) and (B) varying the target angular ...

Recent results from psychophysical studies are discussed which clearly show that face processing is not only holistic. Humans do encode face parts (component information) in addition to information about the spatial interrelationship of facial features (...

Experiment 1 reexamined in detail conscious experiences in Ganzfeld situations with homogeneous light (red, green, or blue). Subjects were instructed to report everything, including phenomena attributed to the external world (colour, brightness, space) ...