Beyond scattering and absorption: Perceptual un-mixing of translucent liquids (2018)
Journal Article
Chadwick, A., Cox, G., Smithson, H., & Kentridge, R. (2018). Beyond scattering and absorption: Perceptual un-mixing of translucent liquids. Journal of Vision, 18(11), 1-15. https://doi.org/10.1167/18.11.18

Is perception of translucence based on estimations of scattering and absorption of light or on statistical pseudocues associated with familiar materials? We compared perceptual performance with real and computer-generated stimuli. Real stimuli were g... Read More about Beyond scattering and absorption: Perceptual un-mixing of translucent liquids.

The Pain Divide: a cross-sectional analysis of chronic pain prevalence, pain intensity and opioid utilisation in England (2018)
Journal Article
Todd, A., Akhter, N., Cairns, J., Kasim, A., Walton, N., Ellison, A., …Bambra, C. (2018). The Pain Divide: a cross-sectional analysis of chronic pain prevalence, pain intensity and opioid utilisation in England. BMJ Open, 8(7), Article e023391. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2018-023391

Objectives: Our central research question was, in England, are geographical inequalities in opioid use driven by health need (pain)? To answer this question, our study examined: (1) if there are regional inequalities in rates of chronic pain prevalen... Read More about The Pain Divide: a cross-sectional analysis of chronic pain prevalence, pain intensity and opioid utilisation in England.

Light social drinkers are more distracted by irrelevant information from an induced attentional bias than heavy social drinkers (2018)
Journal Article
Knight, H. C., Smith, D. T., Knight, D. C., & Ellison, A. (2018). Light social drinkers are more distracted by irrelevant information from an induced attentional bias than heavy social drinkers. Psychopharmacology, 235(10), 2967-2978. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00213-018-4987-4

It is well established that alcoholics and heavy social drinkers show a bias of attention towards alcohol-related items. Previous research suggests that there is a shared foundation of attentional bias, which is linked to attentional control settings... Read More about Light social drinkers are more distracted by irrelevant information from an induced attentional bias than heavy social drinkers.

Spatial Working Memory in Progressive Supranuclear Palsy (2018)
Journal Article
Smith, D., & Archibald, N. (2020). Spatial Working Memory in Progressive Supranuclear Palsy. Cortex, 122, 115-122. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cortex.2018.07.004

The neural and cognitive mechanisms of spatial working memory are tightly coupled with the systems that control eye-movements but the precise nature of this coupling is not well understood. In particular, there are very few neuropsychological studies... Read More about Spatial Working Memory in Progressive Supranuclear Palsy.

Action blindsight and antipointing in a hemianopic patient (2018)
Journal Article
Smits, A., Seijdel, N., Scholte, H., Heywood, C., Kentridge, R., & de Haan, E. (2019). Action blindsight and antipointing in a hemianopic patient. Neuropsychologia, 128, 270-275. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2018.03.029

Blindsight refers to the observation of residual visual abilities in the hemianopic field of patients without a functional V1. Given the within- and between-subject variability in the preserved abilities and the phenomenal experience of blindsight pa... Read More about Action blindsight and antipointing in a hemianopic patient.

Vision: Non-illusory Evidence for Distinct Visual Pathways for Perception and Action (2018)
Journal Article
Kentridge, R. (2018). Vision: Non-illusory Evidence for Distinct Visual Pathways for Perception and Action. Current Biology, 28(6), R264-R266. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2018.02.016

When visual information about an object’s distance is obscured, but its retinal size visible, the object’s physical size is ambiguous to vision; however, additional proprioceptive distance information permits physical size to be estimated when graspi... Read More about Vision: Non-illusory Evidence for Distinct Visual Pathways for Perception and Action.

The effect of offset cues on saccade programming and covert attention (2018)
Journal Article
Smith, D., & Casteau, S. (2019). The effect of offset cues on saccade programming and covert attention. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 72(3), 481-490. https://doi.org/10.1177/1747021818759468

Salient peripheral events trigger fast, “exogenous” covert orienting. The influential premotor theory of attention argues that covert orienting of attention depends upon planned but unexecuted eye-movements. One problem with this theory is that salie... Read More about The effect of offset cues on saccade programming and covert attention.

Mental State Attributions Mediate the Gaze Cueing Effect (2018)
Journal Article
Morgan, E. J., Freeth, M., & Smith, D. T. (2018). Mental State Attributions Mediate the Gaze Cueing Effect. Vision, 2(1), Article 11. https://doi.org/10.3390/vision2010011

Understanding the mental states of our social partners allows us to successfully interact with the world around us. Mental state attributions are argued to underpin social attention, and have been shown to modulate attentional orienting to social cue... Read More about Mental State Attributions Mediate the Gaze Cueing Effect.

Translucence perception is not dependent on cortical areas critical for processing colour or texture (2017)
Journal Article
Chadwick, A., Heywood, C., Smithson, H., & Kentridge, R. (2019). Translucence perception is not dependent on cortical areas critical for processing colour or texture. Neuropsychologia, 128, 209-214. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2017.11.009

Translucence is an important property of natural materials, and human observers are adept at perceiving changes in translucence. Perceptions of different material properties appear to arise from different cortical regions, and it is therefore plausib... Read More about Translucence perception is not dependent on cortical areas critical for processing colour or texture.

Investigating the familiarity effect in texture segmentation by means of event-related brain potentials (2017)
Journal Article
Becker, L., Smith, D., & Schenk, T. (2017). Investigating the familiarity effect in texture segmentation by means of event-related brain potentials. Vision Research, 140, 120-132. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.visres.2017.08.002

The familiarity effect (FE) refers to the phenomenon that it is easier to find an unfamiliar element on a background of familiar elements than vice versa. In this study, we examined the FE in texture segmentation while recording event-related brain p... Read More about Investigating the familiarity effect in texture segmentation by means of event-related brain potentials.

The Behavioral Effects of tDCS on Visual Search Performance Are Not Influenced by the Location of the Reference Electrode (2017)
Journal Article
Ellison, A., Ball, K. L., & Lane, A. R. (2017). The Behavioral Effects of tDCS on Visual Search Performance Are Not Influenced by the Location of the Reference Electrode. Frontiers in Neuroscience, 11, Article 520. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnins.2017.00520

We investigated the role of reference electrode placement (ipsilateral v contralateral frontal pole) on conjunction visual search task performance when the transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) cathode is placed over right posterior parietal... Read More about The Behavioral Effects of tDCS on Visual Search Performance Are Not Influenced by the Location of the Reference Electrode.

Weight and see: Line bisection in neglect reliably measures the allocation of attention, but not the perception of length (2017)
Journal Article
McIntosh, R. D., Ietswaart, M., & Milner, A. D. (2017). Weight and see: Line bisection in neglect reliably measures the allocation of attention, but not the perception of length. Neuropsychologia, 106, 146-158. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2017.09.014

Line bisection has long been a routine test for unilateral neglect, along with a range of tests requiring cancellation, copying or drawing. However, several studies have reported that line bisection, as classically administered, correlates relatively... Read More about Weight and see: Line bisection in neglect reliably measures the allocation of attention, but not the perception of length.

Does unconscious perception really exist? Continuing the ASSC20 debate (2017)
Journal Article
Peters, M. A., Kentridge, R. W., Phillips, I., & Block, N. (2017). Does unconscious perception really exist? Continuing the ASSC20 debate. Neuroscience of Consciousness, 3(1), https://doi.org/10.1093/nc/nix015

In our ASSC20 symposium, “Does unconscious perception really exist?”, the four of us asked some difficult questions about the purported phenomenon of unconscious perception, disagreeing on a number of points. This disagreement reflected the objective... Read More about Does unconscious perception really exist? Continuing the ASSC20 debate.

Spontaneous Perspective Taking in Humans? (2017)
Journal Article
Cole, G., Atkinson, M., D’Souza, A., & Smith, D. (2017). Spontaneous Perspective Taking in Humans?. Vision, 1(17), 2-15. https://doi.org/10.3390/vision1020017

A number of social cognition studies posit that humans spontaneously compute the viewpoint of other individuals. This is based on experiments showing that responses are shorter when a human agent, located in a visual display, can see the stimuli rele... Read More about Spontaneous Perspective Taking in Humans?.

Comparing the effect of temporal delay on the availability of egocentric and allocentric information in visual search (2017)
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Ball, K., Birch, Y., Lane, A., Ellison, A., & Schenk, T. (2017). Comparing the effect of temporal delay on the availability of egocentric and allocentric information in visual search. Behavioural Brain Research, 331, 38-46. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bbr.2017.05.018

Frames of reference play a central role in perceiving an object’s location and reaching to pick that object up. It is thought that the ventral stream, believed to subserve vision for perception, utilises allocentric coding, while the dorsal stream, a... Read More about Comparing the effect of temporal delay on the availability of egocentric and allocentric information in visual search.

Texture segmentation without human V4 (2017)
Journal Article
Norman, L., Heywood, C., & Kentridge, R. (2017). Texture segmentation without human V4. Visual Cognition, 25(1-3), 184-195. https://doi.org/10.1080/13506285.2017.1301612

Texture segmentation, or second-order segmentation, is a rapid perceptual process, allowing object and surface boundaries to be effortlessly detected. It is currently unclear whether this is achieved in early cortical areas or whether it necessitates... Read More about Texture segmentation without human V4.

How do the two visual streams interact with each other? (2017)
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Milner, A. (2017). How do the two visual streams interact with each other?. Experimental Brain Research, 235(5), 1297-1308. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00221-017-4917-4

The current consensus divides primate cortical visual processing into two broad networks or “streams” composed of highly interconnected areas (Milner and Goodale 2006, 2008; Goodale 2014). The ventral stream, passing from primary visual cortex (V1) t... Read More about How do the two visual streams interact with each other?.

Working memory enhances target detection in the blind hemifield (2016)
Journal Article
Smith, D. T., & Lane, A. R. (2016). Working memory enhances target detection in the blind hemifield. Visual Cognition, 25(1-3), 4-9. https://doi.org/10.1080/13506285.2016.1244137

Visual perception can be influenced by the content of working memory. Previous studies have shown this influence can be enough to improve unconscious visual discrimination in healthy participants and conscious visual discrimination in neuropsychologi... Read More about Working memory enhances target detection in the blind hemifield.

The Functional Roles of Attention (2016)
Book Chapter
Kentridge, R., & Brogaard, B. (2016). The Functional Roles of Attention. In B. Nanay (Ed.), Current controversies in philosophy of perception (139-147). Routledge

Though it is widely agreed that attention and consciousness are distinct phenomena with functionally and anatomically distinct, underlying neural substrates (Crick & Koch, 2003; Kentridge et al. 2004; Koch and Tsuchiya, 2007), there is less consensus... Read More about The Functional Roles of Attention.

The contribution of single case studies to the neuroscience of vision (2016)
Journal Article
Zihl, J., & Heywood, C. (2016). The contribution of single case studies to the neuroscience of vision. PsyCh Journal, 5(1), 5-17. https://doi.org/10.1002/pchj.123

Visual neuroscience is concerned with the neurobiological foundations of visual perception, that is, the morphological, physiological, and functional organization of the visual brain and its co-operative partners. One important approach for understan... Read More about The contribution of single case studies to the neuroscience of vision.