I-PerceptionPub Date : 2024-09-26eCollection Date: 2024-09-01DOI: 10.1177/20416695241274662
Devin Reynolds, Vijay Singh
{"title":"Characterization of human lightness discrimination thresholds for independent spectral variations.","authors":"Devin Reynolds, Vijay Singh","doi":"10.1177/20416695241274662","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/20416695241274662","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The lightness of an object is an intrinsic property that depends on its surface reflectance spectrum. The visual system estimates an object's lightness from the light reflected off its surface. However, the reflected light also depends on object extrinsic properties of the scene, such as the light source. For stable perception, the visual system needs to discount the variations due to the object extrinsic properties. We characterize this perceptual stability for variation in two spectral properties of the scene: the reflectance spectra of background objects and the intensity of light sources. We measure human observers' thresholds of discriminating computer-generated images of 3D scenes based on the lightness of a spherical target object in the scene. We measured change in discrimination thresholds as we varied the reflectance spectra of the objects and the intensity of the light sources in the scene, both individually and simultaneously. For small amounts of extrinsic variations, the discrimination thresholds remained nearly constant indicating that the thresholds were dominated by observers' intrinsic representation of lightness. As extrinsic variation increased, it started affecting observers' lightness judgment and the thresholds increased. We estimated that the effects of extrinsic variations were comparable to observers' intrinsic variation in the representation of object lightness. Moreover, for simultaneous variation of these spectral properties, the increase in threshold squared compared to the no-variation condition was a linear sum of the corresponding increase in threshold squared for the individual properties, indicating that the variations from these independent sources combine linearly.</p>","PeriodicalId":47194,"journal":{"name":"I-Perception","volume":"15 5","pages":"20416695241274662"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2024-09-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11475098/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142477514","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}
I-PerceptionPub Date : 2024-09-17DOI: 10.1177/20416695241278562
Déborah Epicoco, Domicele Jonauskaite, Christine Mohr, C. Alejandro Parraga
{"title":"Can we estimate which colors our participants see? Comparing results from different gamma correction methods","authors":"Déborah Epicoco, Domicele Jonauskaite, Christine Mohr, C. Alejandro Parraga","doi":"10.1177/20416695241278562","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/20416695241278562","url":null,"abstract":"In experimental color research, one must ensure that color is displayed and described reliably. When monitors are involved, colors are displayed through device-dependent color systems. However, these values must be translated into device-independent color systems to interpret what people perceive, often involving techniques such as gamma correction. We sought to explore the feasibility of estimating gamma instead of relying on direct gamma measurements, which typically require specialized equipment like a chromameter. Potential solutions include a computerized perception-based gamma estimation task or adopting the industry-standard gamma value of 2.2. We compared these two solutions against the chromameter measurements in the context of a color-matching task. Thirty-nine participants visually matched red, yellow, green, and blue physical objects using a computerized color picker. Starting from these color choices, we applied two RGB-to-CIE Lab color conversion methods: one using a perception-based gamma estimation and another using the industry-standard gamma. Color values obtained with the chromameter differed from the other two methods by 6–15 JNDs. Small differences existed between the results obtained using the perception-based task and the industry-standard gamma. Thus, we conclude that when standard viewing conditions cannot be assumed, adopting a gamma value of 2.2 should suffice.","PeriodicalId":47194,"journal":{"name":"I-Perception","volume":"51 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2024-09-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142266224","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}
I-PerceptionPub Date : 2024-09-02eCollection Date: 2024-09-01DOI: 10.1177/20416695241267371
Jan Koenderink, Andrea van Doorn, Johan Wagemans
{"title":"Varieties of pictorial vision.","authors":"Jan Koenderink, Andrea van Doorn, Johan Wagemans","doi":"10.1177/20416695241267371","DOIUrl":"10.1177/20416695241267371","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Pictorial awareness is addressed through experimental phenomenology involving over 90 naïve participants. Since one can't look at the \"same\" picture twice the study uses one-shot trials. The participant's fascination for the duration of a session is held through the artistic principle of theme and variation. Six variations focus on the theme of pictorial geometry, both two-dimensional and three-dimensional. Major findings are: Idiosyncratic deviations from veridical are huge as compared to common textbook \"effects.\" Observers wield arbitrary heuristics for tasks that are \"formally related.\" The assumption of a common formal framework is apparently unsound. The notion of \"inverse optics\" is misleading. A fair fraction of the population appears to lack monocular stereopsis as intuitive awareness. It suggests an as-yet unrecognized, but perhaps common variety of aphantasia.</p>","PeriodicalId":47194,"journal":{"name":"I-Perception","volume":"15 5","pages":"20416695241267371"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2024-09-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11372779/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142141399","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}
I-PerceptionPub Date : 2024-09-02eCollection Date: 2024-09-01DOI: 10.1177/20416695241278277
Shinya Yamamoto
{"title":"Bilateral rubber hand illusion induced by unilateral visuotactile stimulation.","authors":"Shinya Yamamoto","doi":"10.1177/20416695241278277","DOIUrl":"10.1177/20416695241278277","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The rubber hand illusion involves the sense of body ownership of a fake hand. We showed that concurrent visuotactile stimuli to <i>unilateral</i> rubber and real hands can induce the embodiment of <i>bilateral</i> rubber hands when both rubber hands are positioned on the table. This phenomenon indicates that the brain has an integrated representation of the sense of body ownership for both hands.</p>","PeriodicalId":47194,"journal":{"name":"I-Perception","volume":"15 5","pages":"20416695241278277"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2024-09-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11372775/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142141398","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}
I-PerceptionPub Date : 2024-08-22eCollection Date: 2024-07-01DOI: 10.1177/20416695241269314
Jan J Koenderink, Andrea J van Doorn, Doris I Braun
{"title":"The well-tempered color circle: A chromatic Gestalt.","authors":"Jan J Koenderink, Andrea J van Doorn, Doris I Braun","doi":"10.1177/20416695241269314","DOIUrl":"10.1177/20416695241269314","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The \"Color Circle\" is an important chromatic Gestalt in the visual arts. There is not really a formal equivalent in conventional colorimetry. The fact that the hues can be linearly ordered and that such an order is necessarily periodic was intuited by artists in the early 19th century, but only formally explained by Ostwald and later Schrödinger a century later. As with musical keys, various metrical orders are in common use. Is there such a thing as a \"well tempered\" order? We consider this an issue for experimental phenomenology. We discuss an attempt based on observations by 30 (nonartist) observers.</p>","PeriodicalId":47194,"journal":{"name":"I-Perception","volume":"15 4","pages":"20416695241269314"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2024-08-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11342333/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142056833","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}
I-PerceptionPub Date : 2024-08-21eCollection Date: 2024-07-01DOI: 10.1177/20416695241270301
Xiaolin Zhang, Shujie Li, Keli Yin
{"title":"The effect of shape on visual size perception.","authors":"Xiaolin Zhang, Shujie Li, Keli Yin","doi":"10.1177/20416695241270301","DOIUrl":"10.1177/20416695241270301","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The Delboeuf illusion occurs when two circles (test figures) of equal radius are placed side by side and surrounded by concentric circles (inducers) of varying radii, resulting in the test figure being misestimated depending on the size of the surrounding inducer. This study conducted three experiments to explore the impact of shape and the contour attraction and parallel attraction on the Delboeuf illusion for different shapes. In Experiment 1 (<i>n </i>= 64), the test figures remained as circles while the inducers varied in shape. Experiment 2 (<i>n </i>= 64) involved simultaneous changes in the shape of both the test figures and the inducers. Experiment 3 (<i>n </i>= 64) replicated Experiment 2, with the exception that the areas of the inducers were equal and the distances between the inducers and the test figures were also equal. We conclude that the shape of the inducer and the test figure had an impact on the visual size perception, and in the magnitude of the Delboeuf illusion, varied depending on contour attraction. Configurations with circles or shapes resembling circles exhibit contour attraction, while configurations with shapes possessing longer parallel lines shift toward parallel attraction, both attractions enhance the perceived magnitude of the Delboeuf illusion.</p>","PeriodicalId":47194,"journal":{"name":"I-Perception","volume":"15 4","pages":"20416695241270301"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2024-08-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11342332/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142056832","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}
I-PerceptionPub Date : 2024-08-14eCollection Date: 2024-07-01DOI: 10.1177/20416695241265821
Li Zhaoping
{"title":"Looking with or without seeing in an individual with age-related macular degeneration impairing central vision.","authors":"Li Zhaoping","doi":"10.1177/20416695241265821","DOIUrl":"10.1177/20416695241265821","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Looking leads gaze to objects; seeing recognizes them. Visual crowding makes seeing difficult or impossible before looking brings objects to the fovea. Looking before seeing can be guided by saliency mechanisms in the primary visual cortex (V1). We have proposed that looking and seeing are mainly supported by peripheral and central vision, respectively. This proposal is tested in an observer with central vision loss due to macular degeneration, using a visual search task that can be accomplished solely through looking, but is actually impeded through seeing. The search target is an uniquely oriented, salient, bar among identically shaped bars. Each bar, including the target, is part of an \" <math><mo>\"</mo> <mi>X</mi></math> \" shape. The target's <math><mo>\"</mo> <mi>X</mi></math> is identical to, although rotated from, the other <math><mo>\"</mo> <mi>X</mi></math> 's in the image, which normally causes confusion. However, this observer exhibits no such confusion, presumably because she cannot see the <math><mo>\"</mo> <mi>X</mi></math> 's shape, but can look towards the target. This result demonstrates a critical dichotomy between central and peripheral vision.</p>","PeriodicalId":47194,"journal":{"name":"I-Perception","volume":"15 4","pages":"20416695241265821"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2024-08-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11325320/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141989125","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}
I-PerceptionPub Date : 2024-08-12eCollection Date: 2024-07-01DOI: 10.1177/20416695241270302
Brandy Murovec, Julia Spaniol, Behrang Keshavarz
{"title":"Individual factors and vection in younger and older adults: How sex, field dependence, personality, and visual attention do (or do not) affect illusory self-motion.","authors":"Brandy Murovec, Julia Spaniol, Behrang Keshavarz","doi":"10.1177/20416695241270302","DOIUrl":"10.1177/20416695241270302","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>An important aspect to an immersive experience in Virtual Reality is vection, defined as the illusion of self-motion. Much of the literature to date has explored strategies to maximize vection through manipulations of the visual stimulus (e.g., increasing speed) or the experimental context (e.g., framing of the study instructions). However, the role of individual differences (e.g., age, biological sex) in vection susceptibility has received little attention. The objective of the current study was to investigate the influence of individual-difference factors on vection perception in younger and older adults. Forty-six younger adults (<i>M</i> <sub>age </sub>= 25.1) and 39 older adults (<i>M</i> <sub>age </sub>= 72.4) completed assessments of personality traits, field dependence, and visual attention prior to observing a moving visual stimulus aimed at inducing circular vection. Vection was measured using self-reports of onset latency, duration, and intensity. Results indicated that, in both age groups, females experienced longer-lasting vection compared to males. Additionally, the level of field dependence was related to vection intensity and duration in males but not in females. Variability in vection intensity was best explained by a mixture of biological, perceptual, cognitive, and personality variables. Taken together, these findings suggest that individual factors are important for understanding differences in vection susceptibility.</p>","PeriodicalId":47194,"journal":{"name":"I-Perception","volume":"15 4","pages":"20416695241270302"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2024-08-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11320702/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141976877","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}
I-PerceptionPub Date : 2024-08-12eCollection Date: 2024-07-01DOI: 10.1177/20416695241270303
Airui Chen, Weixia Han, Wei Wang, Bo Dong
{"title":"The mechanism for the specificity of gaze direction: Inhibiting background location.","authors":"Airui Chen, Weixia Han, Wei Wang, Bo Dong","doi":"10.1177/20416695241270303","DOIUrl":"10.1177/20416695241270303","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The experiment combined the spatial Stroop paradigm to examine the effect of background location on the perception of arrow or gaze direction in the vertical dimension by manipulating the congruence between the target direction and background location, and to validate a possible cognitive mechanism for gaze direction specificity - inhibiting background location. The results showed that when subjects were required to identify the target direction in a Stroop task (Experiment 1), the gaze cue failed to induce the Stroop effect. However, when subjects were required to judge the congruence between the target direction and the background location (Experiment 2), the gaze cue and the arrow cue both induced the Stroop effect. This suggests that \" inhibiting background location\" is responsible for the elimination of the spatial Stroop effect by gaze direction, which may one of the mechanisms for gaze direction specificity.</p>","PeriodicalId":47194,"journal":{"name":"I-Perception","volume":"15 4","pages":"20416695241270303"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2024-08-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11320694/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141976878","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}
I-PerceptionPub Date : 2024-08-03eCollection Date: 2024-07-01DOI: 10.1177/20416695241261140
Yuguang Zhao, Jeroen Stumpel, Huib de Ridder, Maarten W A Wijntjes
{"title":"Material perception across different media-comparing perceived attributes in oil paintings and engravings.","authors":"Yuguang Zhao, Jeroen Stumpel, Huib de Ridder, Maarten W A Wijntjes","doi":"10.1177/20416695241261140","DOIUrl":"10.1177/20416695241261140","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>We investigated the influence of the medium on the perception of depicted objects and materials. Oil paintings and their reproductions in engravings were chosen because they are vastly distinctive media while having completely identical content. A total of 15 pairs were collected, consisting of 88 fragments depicting different materials, including fabric, skin, wood and metal. Besides the original condition, we created three manipulations to understand the effect of colour (a greyscale version) and contrast (equalised histograms towards both painting and engraving). We performed rating experiments on five attributes: three-dimensionality, glossiness, convincingness, smoothness and softness. An average of 25 participants finished each of the 20 online experimental sessions (five attributes X four conditions). Besides clear correlations between the two media, the differences mainly show in their means (different levels of perceived attributes) and standard deviations (perceived range). In most sessions, paintings depict a wider range than engravings. In addition, it was the histogram equalisation (global contrast) that made the most impact on perceived attributes, rather than colour removal. This suggests that engravers compensated for the lack of colour by exploiting the possibilities of local contrast.</p>","PeriodicalId":47194,"journal":{"name":"I-Perception","volume":"15 4","pages":"20416695241261140"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2024-08-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11297522/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141890406","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}