Psy 628: Perceptual Processes
Spring 2001
Last update: Feb 3, 2001.
Time: TTh 10:30-11:45AM
Place: LAEB 1202.
Instructor: Dr. Zygmunt Pizlo Office Hour: Wed 2-3PM
Text: Palmer S.E. (1999) Vision Science. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
Exams: There will be two exams. Each exam counts 40% towards your final grade. The remaining 20% comes from the presentation of a paper(s) chosen from the reading list.
Readings:
Week 1
: Mind-Body Problem. Anatomy and physiology of the retina. Palmer - chapters 13, 1.
Week 2
: Nativism vs. Empiricism.Hubel D.H. & Wiesel T.N. (1963) Receptive fields of cells in striate cortex of very young, visually inexperienced kittens. Journal of Neurophysiology 26, 994-1002.
Hess E.H. (1956) Space perception in the chick. Scientific American 195, 71-80.
Rock I. & Harris C.S. (1967) Vision and touch. Scientific American 216, 96-104.
Week 3
: No classes.Week 4
: Main approaches to perception - historical review.Palmer - chapter 2.
Steinman R.M., Pizlo Z & Pizlo F.J. (2000) Phi is not beta and why Wertheimer's discovery launched the Gestalt revolution. Vision Research 40, 2257-2264.
Hochberg J. & Brooks V. (1962) Pictorial recognition as an unlearned ability: a study of one child’s performance. American Journal of Psychology 75, 624-628.
Rosenblueth A., Wiener N. & Bigelow J. (1943) Behavior, purpose and teleology. Philosphy of Science 10, 18-24.
Poggio T., Torre V. & Koch C. (1985) Computational vision and regularization theory. Nature 317, 314-319.
Week 5
: Outer psychophysics and inner psychophysics.Palmer - Appendix A.
Brindley G.S. (1970) Physiology of the Retina and Visual Pathway (Chapter 5). Baltimore: Williams & Wilkins.
Teller D.Y. (1984) Linking propositions. Vision Research 24, 1233-1246.
Week 6
: Color vision - trichromatic vs. opponent process theory.Palmer - Chapter 3.
Helmholtz H. von (1852) On the theory of compound colours. Philosophical Magazine 4, 519-534.
Maxwell J.C. (1856) On the theory of colours in relation to colour-blindness. Transactions of the Royal Scottish Society of Arts 4, 394-400.
Hecht S. (1928) On the binocular fusion of colors and its relation to theories of color vision. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 14, 237-241.
Hurvich L.M. & Jameson D. (1951) The binocular fusion of yellow in relation to color theories. Science 114, 199-202.
Week 7
: Lightness and color perception.Wallach, H. (1948) Brightness constancy and the nature of achromatic colors. Journal of Experimental Psychology 38, 310-324.
Gilchrist A.L. & Jacobsen A. (1983) Lightness constancy through a veiling luminance. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance 9, 936-944.
Wandell B.A. (1995) Foundations of Vision. Sunderland, MA: Sinauer. (Chapter 9)
Week 8
: Neuroanatomy and neurophysiology of perception.Palmer - Chapter 4.
Schwartz E.L. (1980) Computational anatomy and functional architecture of striate cortex: a spatial mapping approach to perceptual coding. Vision Research 20, 645-669.
Ungerleider L.G. & Mishkin M. (1982) Two cortical visual systems. In: D.G.Ingle, M.A. Goodale & R.J.Q.Mansfield (Eds.), Analysis of visual Behavior. (pp. 549-586). Cambridge, MA: MIT.
Week 9
: Visual organization - overview.Palmer - Chapter 6.
Wertheimer M. (1923/1958) Principles of perceptual organization. In Beardslee D.C. & Wertheimer M. (Eds.) Readings in Perception (pp. 115-135). Princeton NJ: van Nostrand.
Pizlo Z., Rosenfeld A. & Epelboim J. (1995) An exponential pyramid model of the time-course of size processing. Vision Research 35, 1089-1107.
Week 10
: Visual organization - minimum principle.Pomerantz J.R. & Kubovy M. (1986) Simplicity and likelihood principles. In Boff K.R., Kaufman L. & Thomas, J.P. (Eds.) Handbook of Perception and Human Performance (Chapter 36). New York: Wiley.
Pizlo Z., Salach-Golyska M. & Rosenfeld A. (1997) Curve detection in a noisy image. Vision Research 37, 1217-1241.
Chater N. (1996) Reconciling simplicity and likelihood principles in perceptual organization. Psychological Review 103, 566-581.
Week 11
: Space perception from binocular disparity.Palmer - Chapter 5.1-5.3.
Matin L. et al. (1982) Oculoparalytic illusion: visual-field dependent spatial mislocalizations by humans partially paralyzed with curare. Science 216, 198-201.
McKee S.P., Levi D.M. & Bowne S.F. (1990) The imprecision of stereopsis. Vision Research 30, 1763-1779.
Longuet-Higgins H.C. (1981) A computer algorithm for reconstructing a scene from two projections. Nature 293, 133-135.
Chan M.W., Pizlo Z. & Chelberg D.M. (1999) Binocular shape reconstruction: psychological plausibility of the 8-point algorithm. Computer Vision & Image Understanding 74, 121-137.
Week 12
: Depth vs. size vs. shape perception.Palmer - Chapters 7,8.
Holway A.H. & Boring E.G. (1941) Determinants of apparent visual size with distance variant. American Journal of Psychology 51, 21-37.
Thouless R.H. (1931) Phenomenal regression to the real object. I & II. British Journal of Psychology 21, 339-359; 22, 1-30.
Stavrianos B.K. (1945) The relation of shape perception to explicit judgments of inclination. Archives of Psychology, No. 296.
Week 13
: Perception of three-dimensional shape.Hochberg J. & McAlister E. (1953) A quantitative approach to figural "goodness". Journal of Experimental Psychology 46, 361-364.
Attneave F. & Frost R. (1969) The determination of perceived tridimensional orientation by minimum criteria. Perception & Psychophysics 6, 391-396.
Todd J.T. & Bressan P. (1990) The perception of 3-dimensional affine structure from minimal apparent motion sequences. Perception & Psychophysics 48, 419-430.
Eagle R.A. & Blake A. (1995) Two-dimensional constraints on three-dimensional structure from motion tasks. Vision Research 35, 2927-2941.
Week 14
: Shape constancy from novel views.Rock I. & DiVita J. (1987) A case of viewer-centered object perception. Cognitive Psychology 19, 280-293.
Biederman I. & Gerhardstein P.C. (1993) Recognizing depth rotated objects: evidence and conditions for three-dimensional view-point invariance. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human perception & Performance 19, 1162-1182.
Farah M.J., Rochlin R. & Klein K.L. (1994) Orientation invariance and geometric primitives in shape recognition. Cognitive Science 18, 325-344.
Pizlo Z. & Stevenson A.K. (1999) Shape constancy from novel views. Perception & Psychophysics 61, 1299-1307.
Week 15
: Motion and shape from motion.Palmer - Chapter 10.
Wallach H. (1939) On constancy of visual speed. Psychological Review 46, 541-552.
Wallach H. & O'Connell D. (1953) The kinetic depth effect. Journal of Experimental Psychology 45, 205-217.
Hay J.C. (1966) Optical motions and space perception: an extension of Gibson’s analysis. Psychological Review 73, 550-565.
Hildreth E.C. (1984) The computation of the velocity field. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B 221, 189-220.
References:
Boring E.N. (1929) A History of Experimental Psychology. New York: Appleton.
Boring E.N. (1942) Sensation and Perception in the History of Experimental Psychology. New York: Appleton.
Cornsweet T.N. (1970) Visual Perception. New York: Academic Press.
Fechner G.T. (1860/1966) Elements of Psychophysics. New York: Holt.
Gibson J.J. (1979) The Ecological Approach to Visual Perception. Boston: Houghton Mifflin.
Hecht E. (1990) Optics. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley.
Helmholtz H. von (1910/2000) Treatise on Physiological Optics. J.P.C.Southall (Ed.). Bristol: Thoemmes.
Hochberg J.E, (1968) Perception. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall.
Hochberg J.E. (1971) Perception. In: J.W.Kling & L.A.Riggs (Eds.), Woodworth & Schlosberg’s Experimental Psychology. (Chapters 12, 13). New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston.
Howard I.P. & Rogers B.J. (1995) Binocular Vision and Stereopsis. New York: Oxford University Press.
Koffka K. (1935) Principles of Gestalt Psychology. New York: Harcourt, Brace.
Mach E. (1906/1959) The Analysis of Sensations. New York: Dover.
Newton I. (1704/1979) Opticks. New York: Dover.
Springer C.E. (1964) Geometry and Analysis of Projective Spaces. San Francisco: Freeman.
Wallach H. (1976) On Perception. New York: Quadrangle.