Neurons in the rostral lower bank of the superior temporal sulcus (TEs), part of the inferior temporal cortex, respond selectively to three-dimensional (3D) shapes. We have investigated how these neurons represent disparity-defined 3D structure. Most neurons were selective for either first-order (disparity gradients) or second-order (disparity curvature) disparities. The latter selectivity prov...

Pink and Blue Pixel$: Gender and Economic Disparity in Two Massive Online Games Vili Lehdonvirta, Rabindra A. Ratan, Tracy L. M. Kennedy & Dmitri Williams a Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom b Department of Telecommunication, Information Studies and Media, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, USA c Department of Communication, Popular Culture ...

Even​ ​with​ ​all​ ​the​ ​progress​ ​women​ ​have​ ​made​ ​in​ ​the​ ​modern​ ​era,​ ​we​ ​wanted​ ​to​ ​see​ ​how​ ​gender inequality​ ​persisted​ ​in​ ​the​ ​educational​ ​sphere,​ ​particularly​ ​when​ ​categorizing​ ​nations​ ​by​ ​development.​ ​To do​ ​this,​ ​we​ ​obtained​ ​data​ ​on​ ​poverty,​ ​literacy​ ​rates​ ​and​ ​GNI​ ​per​ ​capita​ ​and​ ​analyzed​ ​the​ ​correlation​ ​with the...

Building on the modal and amodal completion work of Kanizsa, Carman and Welch showed that binocular stereo viewing of two disparate images can give rise to a percept of 3D curved, nonclosed illusory contours and surfaces. Here, it is shown that binocular presentation can also give rise to the percept of closed curved surfaces or volumes that appear to vary smoothly across discrete depths in bin...

Attentional influence over perception is particularly pronounced when sensory stimulation is ambiguous, where attention can reduce stimulus uncertainty and promote a stable interpretation of the world. However, binocular rivalry, an extensively studied visual ambiguity, has proved to be comparatively resistant to attentional modulation. We hypothesize that this apparent inconsistency reflects f...

The size of focused attention was assessed within a three-dimensional display. Subjects viewed random-dot stereogram displays in which they responded differentially to vertical and horizontal bars. Adjacent noise elements either were identical to the response target or specified the opposite response. The position of the noise elements was varied in depth according to binocular disparity. Inter...

The color appearance of a light can be altered by introducing a second, surrounding field. This phenomenon, called chromatic induction, is attenuated by chromatic variation within a remote region outside the surround [Shevell & Wei (1998). Vision Research, 38, 1561-1566]. We now consider the locus of the neural mechanism mediating the attenuation caused by the remote chromatic contrast. In the ...

The structure of human disparity representation is examined through (i) adaptation experiments and (ii) model simulations of the data. Section 3 presents results of adaptation experiments designed to illuminate the structure of human disparity representation. Section 4 presents model simulations of three different disparity representation schemes. In the experiments, participants adapted to a 0...