4.3 Editorial Material

Special issue: Calibrating the visual system

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Persistent grasping errors produce depth cue reweighting in perception

Evan Cesanek et al.

Summary: The study found that haptic feedback influences motor reweighting and perceptual reweighting is directly related to motor control. The results suggest a mutual dependency between perception and action, with perception guiding action and actions producing error signals that drive motor and perceptual learning.

VISION RESEARCH (2021)

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Stereoscopic depth constancy from a different direction

Robert S. Allison et al.

Summary: This passage discusses how our visual system compensates for an object's egocentric location to calibrate stereoscopic depth, emphasizing the importance of concepts like the geometry of stereoscopic space and the horopter in maintaining depth constancy. Researchers need to consider both distance and direction when studying stereoscopic depth constancy.

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Orientation-specific long-term neural adaptation of the visual system in keratoconus

Gareth D. Hastings et al.

Summary: The study found that eyes with keratoconus have lower neural contrast sensitivity compared to typical eyes, and exhibit significant rotational asymmetry in neural functions.

VISION RESEARCH (2021)

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Reorganization in the representation of face-race categories from 6 to 9 months of age: Behavioral and computational evidence

Paul C. Quinn et al.

Summary: Prior research has shown that 6-month-old Caucasian infants can distinguish between African and Asian face categories, while 9-month-old Caucasian infants can categorize different other-race face categories together. The study found that between 6 and 9 months, infants transition to representing own-race versus other-race face categories, with clear perceptual differences between the multiple other-race face classes.

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Adaptation to geometrically skewed moving images: An asymmetrical effect on the double-drift illusion

Miguel Garcia Garcia et al.

Summary: Progressive addition lenses introduce distortions in the peripheral visual field. This study investigates how our peripheral visual field adapts to complex distortions. The environment can tune perceived object trajectories and adaptation to geometrical distortions affects the double-drift illusion.

VISION RESEARCH (2021)

Article Neurosciences

Visual adaptation to natural scene statistics and visual preference

Leena Yduyen Nguyen et al.

Summary: The amplitude of Fourier spectra for natural scenes decreases with spatial frequency according to the equation 1/f(alpha), where alpha is typically around 1.25; Images with natural scene statistics are generally preferred, although there are marked individual differences in preference for different alpha levels.

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Colour category constancy and the development of colour naming

Christoph Witzel et al.

Summary: This study investigated the processes of coordination, adaptation, and calibration during the development of colour naming and colour constancy in preschool children. Results showed that illumination changes had a small impact on children's colour categorisation consistency, but the effects of colour term maturity and illumination-specific consistency varied significantly in this age range. The correlation between colour term maturity and illumination specific consistency suggested that colour constancy increased with colour term acquisition, depending on the type of illumination changes.

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Changes of tuning but not dynamics of contrast adaptation with age

Yi Gao et al.

Summary: The study compared the dynamics of adaptation in young and older adults, finding that older adults showed stronger transfer of adaptation and an asymmetry between the transfer of adaptation between the horizontal and vertical orientations for both groups.

VISION RESEARCH (2021)

Article Neurosciences

Color discrimination in anomalous trichromacy: Experiment and theory

Alexandra E. Boehm et al.

Summary: In anomalous trichromacy, color discrimination along the red-green axis is poor, but suprathreshold color perception is relatively preserved. Anomalous observers experience less impairment from chromatic pedestals compared to normal trichromats, suggesting a post-receptoral amplification of signals.

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Article Neurosciences

Dark-habituation increases the dark-background-contingent upshift of gaze in macaque monkeys

Oleg Spivak et al.

Summary: The study examines the impact of prior training experience on sensorimotor behavior in monkeys. Monkeys habituated to working in dark environments displayed a significantly larger upshift in gaze direction compared to those habituated in bright light. This suggests that the size of the upshift reflects long-term cumulative experience, indicating a relationship between the function of the upshift and vision in dark environments.

VISION RESEARCH (2021)

Article Neurosciences

Redundancy between spectral and higher-order texture statistics for natural image segmentation

Daniel Herrera-Esposito et al.

Summary: The study reveals that both spectral statistics and higher-order statistics (HOS) can be used for texture segmentation tasks in natural images, but combining them does not significantly improve segmentation performance. Different subsets of HOS may have varying effects on segmentation results, although the improvement from HOS in some images is difficult to identify.

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Article Neurosciences

Predicting blur visual discomfort for natural scenes by the loss of positional information

Elio D. Di Claudio et al.

Summary: This study explores the perception of blur caused by accommodation failures, insufficient optical correction, or imperfect image reproduction. By comparing predictions with subjective ratings, a receptive field functional model is proposed to successfully predict visual discomfort.

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Testing temporal integration of feature probability distributions using role-reversal effects in visual search

Omer Daglar Tanrikulu et al.

Summary: The study investigated whether the human visual system uses probabilistic statistics to build models of ever-changing visual input. By examining how observers integrate different orientation distributions in visual search tasks, it was found that observers rely more on the most recent stimulus.

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LSerial dependence of facial identity reflects high-level face coding

Kaitlyn Turbett et al.

Summary: The serial dependence of facial identity affects how people perceive faces, with individual differences in strength and tuning of this bias. Stronger and more narrowly tuned serial dependence is associated with better face recognition abilities, suggesting a functional role in face perception.

VISION RESEARCH (2021)

Article Neurosciences

Nice and slow: Measuring sensitivity and visual preference toward naturalistic stimuli varying in their amplitude spectra in space and time

Zoey J. Isherwood et al.

Summary: The study found that research on the 1/f(alpha) amplitude spectrum in the temporal domain is relatively limited, and the results showed that preference does not exactly overlap with sensitivity. While the visual system is most sensitive to stimuli with moderate modulation rates, the most preferred stimuli are those with the slowest modulation rates.

VISION RESEARCH (2021)

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Appearance of special colors in deuteranomalous trichromacy

Delwin T. Lindsey et al.

Summary: Deuteranomalous color matching behavior differs from normal due to the presence of an abnormal L' pigment in the middle-wavelength sensitive cones, but deuteranomalous observers show similar preferences to normal observers when selecting special colors. They adjust their perceptual representation of colors to compensate for their color vision deficiency.

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Task-dependent audiovisual temporal sensitivity is not affected by stimulus intensity levels

Alexandra N. Scurry et al.

Summary: The flexibility and robustness of multisensory temporal recalibration are crucial for maintaining perceptual constancy of the natural world. While stimuli intensity levels did not affect temporal sensitivity or perceived temporal synchrony, they did influence the point of subjective simultaneity measures differently between tasks.

VISION RESEARCH (2021)

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Achieving visual stability during smooth pursuit eye movements: Directional and confidence judgements favor a recalibration model

Raul Luna et al.

Summary: During smooth pursuit eye movements, repeatedly exposing observers to background motion with a fixed direction relative to the pursued target can lead to a shift in their point of subjective stationarity (PSS), reflecting a recalibration of the reference signal in response to prevailing retinal motion during pursuit. This recalibration effect is specific to the exposed visual hemifield.

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Color perception and compensation in color deficiencies assessed with hue scaling

Kara J. Emery et al.

Summary: Anomalous trichromats have weaker responses in their longer-wave cones but higher sensitivity in detecting LvsM chromatic contrast, indicating a partial compensation for weaker opponent inputs. However, the compensation is not complete, as anomalous observers still differ systematically from normal controls in hue-scaling functions and color categories. This suggests that there may be individual differences in how compensation processes for color deficiency operate and their limitations.

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Task-dependent contrast gain in anomalous trichromats

John E. Vanston et al.

Summary: Anomalous trichromacy results in a different sensitivity to colors, but experimental evidence suggests the presence of compensation in certain tasks. Anomalous observers show significant differences in contrast matching and reaction times compared to normal controls in various visual tasks, but their performance can be adjusted to match controls by scaling contrast.

VISION RESEARCH (2021)

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The ups and downs of sensory eye balance: Monocular deprivation has a biphasic effect on interocular dominance

Mahalakshmi Ramamurthy et al.

Summary: The effects of monocular deprivation on ocular dominance in humans are complex, involving two opposing systems acting at different time scales. A fast acting homeostatic system rapidly adjusts eye dominance towards the deprived eye, while a slower system shifts balance towards the non-deprived eye. Continuous deprivation produces a biphasic effect, initially shifting balance away from the non-deprived eye and then back towards it.

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The McCollough World: Induction of orientation-contingent aftereffects with an altered-reality system

Katherine E. M. Tregillus et al.

Summary: The McCollough Effect is a color aftereffect that can last for days or weeks after just a few minutes of adaptation. By developing a novel method of induction, stronger and longer-lasting effects can be achieved.

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Development of infants' representation of female and male

Scott P. Johnson et al.

Summary: The study found that 5- and 10.5-month-old infants were able to discriminate female from male faces, but did not show evidence of gender-based categorization. Infants tended to look more at female faces and gender preferences varied between different face pairs or ensembles.

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Interaction of contexts in context-dependent orientation estimation

Ron Dekel et al.

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Motor adaptation distorts visual space

Irene Petrizzo et al.

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Selection history is relative

Ming-Ray Liao et al.

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