Illusion news 11
since September 25, 2008
We revealed that hMT+ responds to the anomalous illusion of the Rotating Snakes pattern, which has been published in Journal of Vision! <January 5, 2009>
Kuriki, I., Ashida, H., Murakami, I., and Kitaoka, A. (2008) Functional brain imaging of the Rotating Snakes illusion by fMRI. Journal of Vision, 8(10):16, 1-10. PDF new!
Journal of Vision Volume 8, Number 10, Article 16, Pages 1-10
Functional brain imaging of the Rotating Snakes illusion by fMRI
Ichiro Kuriki
Hiroshi Ashida
Ikuya Murakami
Akiyoshi Kitaoka
http://journalofvision.org/8/10/16/
The stimulus
The control
Journal of Vision
Volume 8, Number 10
http://journalofvision.org/8/10/
SPECIAL
ISSUE INTRODUCTION
i. Neuroimaging in vision science
Andy
Smith
David Heeger
Geoff Boynton
Anthony
Norcia
http://journalofvision.org/8/10/i/
ARTICLES
1.
Sensitivity of human visual cortical areas to the stereoscopic depth of a moving
stimulus
Andrew T. Smith
Matthew B. Wall
http://journalofvision.org/8/10/1/
2.
The effects of spatial attention in early human visual cortex are stimulus
independent
Scott O. Murray
http://journalofvision.org/8/10/2/
3. Alpha band amplification during illusory jitter perception
Kaoru
Amano
Derek H. Arnold
Tsunehiro Takeda
Alan
Johnston
http://journalofvision.org/8/10/3/
4. The effects of parts, wholes, and familiarity on face-selective responses
in MEG
Alison M. Harris
Geoffrey K. Aguirre
http://journalofvision.org/8/10/4/
5. Spatial frequency tuning in human retinotopic visual areas
Linda
Henriksson
Lauri Nurminen
Aapo Hyvarinen
Simo
Vanni
http://journalofvision.org/8/10/5/
6.
fMRI measurements of color in macaque and human
Alex Wade
Mark
Augath
Nikos Logothetis
Brian Wandell
http://journalofvision.org/8/10/6/
7.
Color signals in the primary visual cortex of marmosets
Peter
Buzas
Brett A. Szmajda
Maziar Hashemi-Nezhad
Bogdan
Dreher
Paul R. Martin
http://journalofvision.org/8/10/7/
8.
Comparison of contrast-response functions from multifocal visual-evoked
potentials (mfVEPs) and functional MRI responses
Jason C. Park
Xian Zhang
John Ferrera
Joy Hirsch
Donald C.
Hood
http://journalofvision.org/8/10/8/
9.
The representation of subordinate shape similarity in human occipitotemporal
cortex
Sven Panis
Joris Vangeneugden
Hans P. Op de
Beeck
Johan Wagemans
http://journalofvision.org/8/10/9/
10.
Quantifying spatial uncertainty of visual area boundaries in neuroimaging
data
Dean Kirson
Alexander C. Huk
Lawrence K.
Cormack
http://journalofvision.org/8/10/10/
11.
Orientation sensitivity of the N1 evoked by letters and digits
Branka
Milivojevic
Michael C. Corballis
Jeff P. Hamm
http://journalofvision.org/8/10/11/
12.
Identifying the human optic radiation using diffusion imaging and fiber
tractography
Anthony J. Sherbondy
Robert F. Dougherty
Sandy Napel
Brian A. Wandell
http://journalofvision.org/8/10/12/
13.
Neural processing underlying tactile microspatial discrimination in the blind: A
functional magnetic resonance imaging study
Randall Stilla
Rebecca Hanna
Xiaoping Hu
Erica Mariola
Gopikrishna
Deshpande
K. Sathian
http://journalofvision.org/8/10/13/
14.
Neural correlates of the stereokinetic effect revealed by functional magnetic
resonance imaging
Tetsuya Yamamoto
Shigeko Takahashi
Takashi Hanakawa
Shin-ichi Urayama
Toshihiko Aso
Hidenao Fukuyama
Yoshimichi Ejima
http://journalofvision.org/8/10/14/
15.
BOLD response to spatial phase congruency in human brain
Andrea
Perna
Michela Tosetti
Domenico Montanaro
Maria
Concetta Morrone
http://journalofvision.org/8/10/15/
16.
Functional brain imaging of the Rotating Snakes illusion by fMRI
Ichiro
Kuriki
Hiroshi Ashida
Ikuya Murakami
Akiyoshi
Kitaoka
http://journalofvision.org/8/10/16/
17.
Optic flow in human vision: MEG reveals a foveo-fugal bias in V1, specialization
for spiral space in hMSTs, and global motion sensitivity in the IPS
Ian
E. Holliday
Timothy S. Meese
http://journalofvision.org/8/10/17/
Takashima (2008) proposed the sumi painting effect in the Japanese Journal of Psychology. <November 26, 2008>
Takashima, M. (2008) Achromatic watercolor effect: About requirement of formation of sumi painting effect. Japanese Journal of Psychology, 79, 379-384 (in Japanese with English abstract).
(A) Watercolor illusion (Pinna, Brelstaff and Spillmann, 2001). Although the whole area except waving borders is homogeneously white, the corridor part appears to be tinted green in the upper panel while the outer and inner parts appear to be tinted so in the lower panel. (B) Achromatic watercolor illusion. Although the whole area except waving borders is homogeneously white, the corridor part appears to be tinted gray in the upper panel while the outer and inner parts appear to be tinted so in the lower panel (Noguchi, Kitaoka and Takashima, 2008). (C) Sumi painting effect. Although the whole area except waving borders is homogeneously gray, the corridor part appears to be tinted lighter in the upper panel while the outer and inner parts appear to be tinted so in the lower pane (Takashima, 2008). These figures are drawn by Akiyoshi Kitaoka.
References
Takashima, M. (2008) Achromatic watercolor effect: About requirement of formation of sumi painting effect. Japanese Journal of Psychology, 79, 379-384.
Noguchi, K., Kitaoka, A., and Takashima, M. (2008) Gestalt-oriented perceptual research in Japan: Past and present. Gestalt Theory, 30, 11-28. Figures PDF request to me
Pinna, B., Brelstaff, G., and Spillmann, L. (2001) Surface color from boundaries: A new 'watercolor' illusion. Vision Research, 41, 2669-2676.
Professor Mark McCourt's talk
in Ritsumeikan
Professor Mark McCourt visiting Japan this December will stop by Kyoto and give us talk in the Ritsumeikan University!
Date/time: December 8, 2008 (Monday) starting 15:45
Location: Ritsumeikan University (Kinugasa campus, Kyoto)
Soshikan Conference room, 1F
Registration or fee: Admission free
Schedule
Opening talk (15:45-16:30)
Hiroyuki Shinoda, Professor Ph.D (Ritsumeikan University, Department of Human & Computer Intelligence)
"Evaluation of Lighting Environments with Perceived Brightness"
Akiyoshi Kitaoka, Professor Ph.D (Ritsumeikan University, Department of Psychology)
"An Overview of Illusions of Brightness"
Professor McCourt's talk (16:30-)
Mark McCourt, Professor Ph.D (North Dakota State University, Department of Psychology)
"The Computation of Brightness in Human Vision"
Discussion ( - about 17:45)
Party
An illusion design has decorated the cover of a meeting of medicine (hypnosis). <November 7, 2008>
The fifth print (36,000 in total) of an illusion book has been decided! <October 16, 2008>
Newton Press (Ed.), A. Kitaoka (Supervisor) (2007) Newton magazine book: Special issue "How is the brain deceived? Perfect demonstration of visual illusions" Tokyo: Newton Press.
Illusion mugs have started to be on sale! <October 6, 2008>
http://item.rakuten.co.jp/newton-style/brz0101/ (in Japanese)
Do babies see color illusion? This question was examined using the illusion as shown left (see Color illusion 1) (Okumura, Kanazawa and Yamaguchi, 2007). The result demonstrates that seven-month-old infants see this illusion. On the other hand, five-month-old babies showed positive evidence in Experiment 1 but not in Experiment 2. <September 25, 2008>
Infant and Child Development
Inf. Child Dev. 16: 629–648 (2007)
Published online in Wiley InterScience
(www.interscience.wiley.com) DOI: 10.1002/icd.530
Development of Chromatic Induction in Infancy
Hiromi Okamuraa, So Kanazawab and Masami K. Yamaguchic
a Department of Psychology, Chuo University, Tokyo, Japan
b Shukutoku University, Japan
c Japan Science and Technology Agency
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