Perceptual adaptation destabilizes the phenomenal appearance of multistable visual displays. Prolonged dominance of a perceptual state fatigues the associated neural population, lowering the likelihood of renewed perception of the same appearance (Nawrot & Blake in Perception & Psychophysics, 49, 230-44, 1991). Here, we used a selective adaptation paradigm to investigate perceptual adaptation f...

This study was undertaken to examine relationships between the similarity structures of optical phonetic measures and visual phonetic perception. For this study, four talkers who varied in visual intelligibility were recorded simultaneously with a 3-dimensional optical recording system and a video camera. Subjects perceptually identified the talkers’ consonant-vowel nonsense syllable utterances...

Multiple object tracking (MOT) is an attentional process wherein people track several moving targets among several distractors. Symmetry, an important indicator of regularity, is a general spatial pattern observed in natural and artificial scenes. According to the "laws of perceptual organization" proposed by Gestalt psychologists, regularity is a principle of perceptual grouping, such as simil...

Brain networks use neural oscillations as information transfer mechanisms. Although the face perception network in occipitotemporal cortex is well-studied, contributions of oscillations to face representation remain an open question. We tested for links between oscillatory responses that encode facial dimensions and the theoretical proposal that faces are encoded in similarity-based "face space...

Numerous cross-linguistic studies suggest that the adaptation of loanwords proceeds in such a way as to maximize perceptual similarity between input and output (Fleischacker 2000, Kang 2002, Kenstowicz 2003). Other authors have characterized the relationship between input and output sounds in borrowings as being based on phonological closeness rather than perceptual similarity (Paradis' TCRS lo...

The lack of controlled stimuli transformations is an obstacle to the study face identity recognition. Researchers are often limited verbalizable in creation a dataset. An alternative approach verbalization for interpretability finding image-based measures that allow us quantify transformations. We explore whether PCA could be used create facial by testing effect these on human perceptual simila...