Vision ResearchPub Date : 2024-01-09DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2023.108342
Inês S. Veríssimo , Zachary Nudelman , Christian N.L. Olivers
{"title":"Does crowding predict conjunction search? An individual differences approach","authors":"Inês S. Veríssimo , Zachary Nudelman , Christian N.L. Olivers","doi":"10.1016/j.visres.2023.108342","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.visres.2023.108342","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Searching for objects in the visual environment is an integral part of human behavior. Most of the information used during such visual search comes from the periphery of our vision, and understanding the basic mechanisms of search therefore requires taking into account the inherent limitations of peripheral vision. Our previous work using an individual differences approach has shown that one of the major factors limiting peripheral vision (crowding) is predictive of single feature search, as reflected in response time and eye movement measures. Here we extended this work, by testing the relationship between crowding and visual search in a conjunction-search paradigm. Given that conjunction search involves more fine-grained discrimination and more serial behavior, we predicted it would be strongly affected by crowding. We tested sixty participants with regard to their sensitivity to both orientation and color-based crowding (as measured by critical spacing) and their efficiency in searching for a color/orientation conjunction (as indicated by manual response times and eye movements). While the correlations between the different crowding tasks were high, the correlations between the different crowding measures and search performance were relatively modest, and no higher than those previously observed for single-feature search. Instead, observers showed very strong color selectivity during search. The results suggest that conjunction search behavior relies more on top-down guidance (here by color) and is therefore relatively less determined by individual differences in sensory limitations as caused by crowding.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":23670,"journal":{"name":"Vision Research","volume":"216 ","pages":"Article 108342"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2024-01-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0042698923001669/pdfft?md5=19e1b9fa16b19392fc165c24edbf6b85&pid=1-s2.0-S0042698923001669-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139399264","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Vision ResearchPub Date : 2024-01-06DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2023.108356
A.P. Martinez-Cedillo , T. Foulsham
{"title":"Don’t look now! Social elements are harder to avoid during scene viewing","authors":"A.P. Martinez-Cedillo , T. Foulsham","doi":"10.1016/j.visres.2023.108356","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.visres.2023.108356","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Regions of social importance (i.e., other people) attract attention in real world scenes, but it is unclear how automatic this bias is and how it might interact with other guidance factors. To investigate this, we recorded eye movements while participants were explicitly instructed to avoid looking at one of two objects in a scene (either a person or a non-social object). The results showed that, while participants could follow these instructions, they still made errors (especially on the first saccade). Crucially, there were about twice as many erroneous looks towards the person than there were towards the other object. This indicates that it is hard to suppress the prioritization of social information during scene viewing, with implications for how quickly and automatically this information is perceived and attended to.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":23670,"journal":{"name":"Vision Research","volume":"216 ","pages":"Article 108356"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2024-01-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0042698923001803/pdfft?md5=f5e8ba5d65ee3b9956b602b27ceec44c&pid=1-s2.0-S0042698923001803-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139111633","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Vision ResearchPub Date : 2024-01-04DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2023.108348
Sarah E. Creighton , Patrick J. Bennett , Allison B. Sekuler
{"title":"Contribution of internal noise and calculation efficiency to face discrimination deficits in older adults","authors":"Sarah E. Creighton , Patrick J. Bennett , Allison B. Sekuler","doi":"10.1016/j.visres.2023.108348","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.visres.2023.108348","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Classification images (CIs) measured in a face discrimination task differ significantly between older and younger observers. These age differences are consistent with the hypothesis that older adults sample diagnostic face information less efficiently, or have higher levels of internal noise, compared to younger adults. The current experiments assessed the relative contributions of efficiency and internal noise to age differences in face discrimination using the external noise masking and double-pass response consistency paradigms. Experiment 1 measured discrimination thresholds for faces embedded in several levels of static white noise, and the resulting threshold-vs.-noise curves were used to estimate calculation efficiency and equivalent input noise: older observers had lower efficiency and higher equivalent input noise than younger observers. Experiment 2 presented observers with two identical sequences of faces embedded in static white noise to measure the association between response accuracy and response consistency and estimate the internal:external (i/e) noise ratio for each observer. We found that i/e noise ratios did not differ significantly between groups. These results suggest that age differences in face discrimination are due to differences in calculation efficiency and additive internal noise, but not to age differences in multiplicative internal noise.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":23670,"journal":{"name":"Vision Research","volume":"216 ","pages":"Article 108348"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2024-01-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139092361","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Foveal crowding for large and small Landolt Cs: Similarity and Attention","authors":"V.M. Bondarko , V.N. Chikhman , M.V. Danilova , S.D. Solnushkin","doi":"10.1016/j.visres.2023.108346","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.visres.2023.108346","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>We compare the recognition of foveal crowded Landolt Cs of two sizes: brief (40 ms), large, low-contrast Cs and high-contrast (1 sec) tests at the resolution limit of the visual system. In different series, the test Landolt C was surrounded by two identical distractors located symmetrically along the horizontal or by a single distractor. The distractors were Landolt Cs or rings. <em>At the resolution limit</em>, the critical spacing was similar in the two series and did not depend on the type of distractor. The result supports the hypothesis that crowding at the resolution limit occurs when both the test and the distractors fall into the same smallest receptive field responsible for the target recognition. <em>For large stimuli</em>, at almost all separations distractors of the same shape caused greater impairment than did rings, and recognition errors were non-random. The critical spacing was equal to 0.5 test diameters only in the presence of one distracting Landolt C. This result suggests that attention is involved: When one distractor is added, involuntary attention, which is directed to the centre of gravity of the stimulus, can lead to confusion of features that are present in both tests and distractors and thus to non-random errors.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":23670,"journal":{"name":"Vision Research","volume":"215 ","pages":"Article 108346"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2024-01-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139083010","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Vision ResearchPub Date : 2023-12-30DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2023.108343
Siobhan M. McAteer, Anthony McGregor, Daniel T. Smith
{"title":"Precision in spatial working memory examined with mouse pointing","authors":"Siobhan M. McAteer, Anthony McGregor, Daniel T. Smith","doi":"10.1016/j.visres.2023.108343","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.visres.2023.108343","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The capacity of visuospatial working memory (VSWM) is limited. However, there is continued debate surrounding the nature of this capacity limitation. The resource model (<span>Bays et al., 2009</span>) proposes that VSWM capacity is limited by the precision with which visuospatial features can be retained. In one of the few studies of spatial working memory, <span>Schneegans and Bays (2016)</span> report that memory guided pointing responses show a monotonic decrease in precision as set size increases, consistent with resource models. Here we report two conceptual replications of this study that use mouse responses rather than pointing responses. Overall results are consistent with the resource model, as there was an exponential increase in localisation error and monotonic increases in the probability of misbinding and guessing with increases in set size. However, an unexpected result of Experiment One was that, unlike <span>Schneegans and Bays (2016)</span>, imprecision did not increase between set sizes of 2 and 8. Experiment Two replicated this effect and ruled out the possibility that the invariance of imprecision at set sizes greater than 2 was a product of oculomotor strategies during recall. We speculate that differences in imprecision are related to additional visuomotor transformations required for memory-guided mouse localisation compared to memory-guided manual pointing localisation. These data demonstrate the importance of considering the nature of the response modality when interpreting VSWM data.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":23670,"journal":{"name":"Vision Research","volume":"215 ","pages":"Article 108343"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2023-12-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0042698923001670/pdfft?md5=73a5523ff4d94e5f153b798860d10f9a&pid=1-s2.0-S0042698923001670-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139071891","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Vision ResearchPub Date : 2023-12-25DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2023.108347
Kristina Zeljic, Michael J. Morgan, Joshua A. Solomon
{"title":"Monocular and binocular mechanisms detect modulations of dot density and dot contrast","authors":"Kristina Zeljic, Michael J. Morgan, Joshua A. Solomon","doi":"10.1016/j.visres.2023.108347","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.visres.2023.108347","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Strong reciprocity has been demonstrated between (1) spatial modulations of dot density and modulations of dot luminance, and (2) modulations of dot density and modulations of dot contrast, in textures. The latter are much easier to detect when presented in phase with one another than when presented 180° out of phase, although out-of-phase modulations can also be detected given sufficient amplitude. This result supports the existence of two detection mechanisms: one that is excited by both density modulations and contrast modulations (quiescent when those modulations are presented 180° out of phase) and another that is relatively insensitive to either density modulations or contrast modulations (thus remaining stimulated regardless of phase angle). We investigate whether the mechanism responsible for detecting out-of-phase modulations depends on high-level computations (downstream from the confluence of monocular signals) or whether both mechanisms are situated at the monocular level of visual processing. Specifically, density-modulated and/or contrast-modulated stimuli were presented monocularly (i.e., to the same eye) or dichoptically (i.e., to opposite eyes). Out-of-phase modulations of density were much easier to detect when presented dichoptically. A dichoptic advantage was also found for out-of-phase density and contrast modulations. These dichoptic advantages imply conscious access to a mechanism at the monocular level of processing. When density modulations were presented dichoptically, 180° out of phase, detection thresholds were highest. Consequently, a mechanism with binocular input must also contribute to the detection of these modulations. We describe a minimal, image-based model for these results that contains one monocular computation and one binocular computation.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":23670,"journal":{"name":"Vision Research","volume":"215 ","pages":"Article 108347"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2023-12-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0042698923001712/pdfft?md5=6c047cb46e1bf27dd66e8b51808a9552&pid=1-s2.0-S0042698923001712-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139033948","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Vision ResearchPub Date : 2023-12-23DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2023.108345
Erik Van der Burg , John Cass , Christian N.L. Olivers
{"title":"A CODE model bridging crowding in sparse and dense displays","authors":"Erik Van der Burg , John Cass , Christian N.L. Olivers","doi":"10.1016/j.visres.2023.108345","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.visres.2023.108345","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Visual crowding is arguably the strongest limitation imposed on extrafoveal vision, and is a relatively well-understood phenomenon. However, most investigations and theories are based on sparse displays consisting of a target and at most a handful of flanker objects. Recent findings suggest that the laws thought to govern crowding may not hold for densely cluttered displays, and that grouping and nearest neighbour effects may be more important. Here we present a computational model that accounts for crowding effects in both sparse and dense displays. The model is an adaptation and extension of an earlier model that has previously successfully accounted for spatial clustering, numerosity and object-based attention phenomena. Our model combines grouping by proximity and similarity with a nearest neighbour rule, and defines crowding as the extent to which target and flankers fail to segment. We show that when the model is optimized for explaining crowding phenomena in classic, sparse displays, it also does a good job in capturing novel crowding patterns in dense displays, in both existing and new data sets. The model thus ties together different principles governing crowding, specifically Bouma’s law, grouping, and nearest neighbour similarity effects.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":23670,"journal":{"name":"Vision Research","volume":"215 ","pages":"Article 108345"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2023-12-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0042698923001694/pdfft?md5=42f05d492b3fe1773dd3ba1ed592ec18&pid=1-s2.0-S0042698923001694-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139031236","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Vision ResearchPub Date : 2023-12-23DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2023.108355
Simona Garobbio , Marina Kunchulia , Michael H. Herzog
{"title":"Weak correlations between visual abilities in healthy older adults, despite long-term performance stability","authors":"Simona Garobbio , Marina Kunchulia , Michael H. Herzog","doi":"10.1016/j.visres.2023.108355","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.visres.2023.108355","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Using batteries of visual tests, most studies have found that there are only weak correlations between the performance levels of the tests. Factor analysis has confirmed these results. This means that a participant excelling in one test may rank low in another test. Hence, there is very little evidence for a common factor in vision. In visual aging research, cross-sectional studies have repeatedly found that healthy older adults’ performance is strongly deteriorated in most visual tests compared to young adults. However, also within the healthy older population, there is no evidence for a visual common factor. To investigate whether the weak between-tests correlations are due to fluctuations in individual performance throughout time, we conducted a longitudinal study. Healthy older adults performed a battery of eight visual tests, with two re-tests after approximately four and seven years. Pearson’s, Spearman’s and intraclass correlations of most visual tests were significant across the three testing, indicating that the tests are reliable and individual differences are stable across years. Yet, we found low between-tests correlations at each visit, which is consistent with previous studies finding no evidence for a visual common factor. Our results exclude the possibility that the weak correlations between tests are due to high within-individual variance across time.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":23670,"journal":{"name":"Vision Research","volume":"215 ","pages":"Article 108355"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2023-12-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0042698923001797/pdfft?md5=7d824c76c3f4ed29151b282cf909e3fe&pid=1-s2.0-S0042698923001797-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139031422","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Sound reduces saccadic chronostasis illusion","authors":"Mengdie Zhai , Hongxiao Wu , Yajie Wang , Yu Liao , Wenfeng Feng","doi":"10.1016/j.visres.2023.108344","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.visres.2023.108344","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The saccadic chronostasis illusion refers to the duration overestimation of the first visual stimulation after saccadic eye movement, which is also known as “stopped clock illusion.” The present study investigated whether saccadic chronostasis would be observed in the auditory modality and whether the saccade-induced time dilation in the visual modality would be reduced by a synchronously presented sound. In each trial, a unisensory visual stimulus, unisensory sound, or bimodal audio-visual stimulus with a duration of 200–800 ms (probe stimulus) was presented at the saccade target location and temporally around the offset of the saccade, followed by a unisensory visual or auditory standard stimulus for a fixed 500 ms. Participants were required to identify which of the two stimuli (probe or standard) presented in the target modality (visual or auditory) was perceived as longer. The results showed that no saccadic chronostasis was observed in the auditory modality, regardless of whether the sound was presented alone or synchronously accompanied by a visual stimulus. Interestingly, the magnitude of the saccadic chronostasis illusion was reduced by the synchronously presented sound. Moreover, the combined effect of the saccade and sound on visual time perception fits well with the standard scalar model, and the weight of the cross-modal effect was higher than that of saccadic visual time dilation. These results suggest that sound dominates vision in time processing during saccades and linearly modulates saccadic chronostasis, which follows the Scalar Expectancy Theory.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":23670,"journal":{"name":"Vision Research","volume":"215 ","pages":"Article 108344"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2023-12-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138693158","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Vision ResearchPub Date : 2023-12-08DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2023.108341
Nickolai G. Nilsen , Stuart J. Gilson , Hilde R. Pedersen , Lene A. Hagen , Christine F. Wildsoet , Rigmor C. Baraas
{"title":"The effect of topical 1 % atropine on ocular dimensions and diurnal rhythms of the human eye","authors":"Nickolai G. Nilsen , Stuart J. Gilson , Hilde R. Pedersen , Lene A. Hagen , Christine F. Wildsoet , Rigmor C. Baraas","doi":"10.1016/j.visres.2023.108341","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.visres.2023.108341","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The effect of topical 1 % atropine on the diurnal rhythms of the human eye was investigated. Participants wore an activity monitor on Days 1–7. A set of measures (epochs) encompassing intraocular pressure (IOP), ocular biometry, and retinal imaging were obtained on Day 7 (baseline), followed by eight epochs on Day 8, and one on Day 9 from both eyes of healthy participants (n = 22, 19–25 years). The sleep time of participants (collected via actigraphy) was used as a reference in scheduling epochs. Topical 1 % atropine was instilled in the dominant eye on Day 8, 2 h after habitual wake time, using the fellow eye as control (paired-eye design). Sinusoids with a 24-h period were fitted to the data, and a non-linear mixed-effects model was used to estimate rhythmic statistics. There were no interocular differences in any of the measured parameters at baseline. Comparing pre- versus post-atropine in treated eyes revealed lower IOP, deeper anterior chamber (ACD), decreased crystalline lens thickness and shorter axial length (AL). The same trends were observed when comparing atropine-treated versus fellow control eyes, except for IOP and AL (no differences). Both atropine-treated and fellow control eyes showed significant diurnal variations in all ocular parameters, with atropine-treated eyes revealing larger AL and retinal thickness amplitudes, smaller vitreous chamber depth (VCD) amplitudes, and a significant phase advancement for ACD and VCD. There were no interocular differences in choroidal thickness rhythms. In conclusion, while ocular diurnal rhythms persisted after instillation of 1 % atropine, many rhythmic parameters were altered.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":23670,"journal":{"name":"Vision Research","volume":"214 ","pages":"Article 108341"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2023-12-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0042698923001657/pdfft?md5=28107cf8ddcd6ea2f92075e0346e3508&pid=1-s2.0-S0042698923001657-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138550161","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}