We summarize the various strands of research on peripheral vision and relate them to
theories of form perception. After a historical overview, we describe quantifications of the …

Visual search, a vital task for humans and animals, has also become a common and
important tool for studying many topics central to active vision and cognition ranging from …

The ModelFest data set was created to provide a public source of data to test and calibrate
models of foveal spatial contrast detection. It consists of contrast thresholds for 43 foveal …

Many of the commonly used methods for modeling and fitting psychophysical data are
special cases of statistical procedures of great power and generality, notably the …

Classification images have recently become a widely used tool in visual psychophysics.
Here, I review the development of classification image methods over the past fifteen years. I …

In any given perceptual task, the visual system selectively weighs or filters incoming
information. The particular set of weights or filters form a kind of template, which reveals the …

Emotional communication relies on a mutual understanding, between expresser and viewer,
of facial configurations that broadcast specific emotions. However, we do not know whether …

Despite an obvious demand for a variety of statistical tests adapted to classification images,
few have been proposed. We argue that two statistical tests based on random field theory …

For the linear discrimination of two stimuli in white Gaussian noise in the presence of
internal noise, a method is described for estimating linear classification weights from the …

In the Posner cueing paradigm, observers' performance in detecting a target is typically
better in trials in which the target is present at the cued location than in trials in which the …