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How attitude and behaviour affect our reactions to risk: The gorilla in the room (2014)
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Weick, M., & Vasiljevic, M. (2014). How attitude and behaviour affect our reactions to risk: The gorilla in the room. [No known commissioning body]

In this article, Mario Weick, Senior Lecturer in Psychology at the University of Kent and Milica Vasiljevic, Research Associate at the Behaviour and Health Research Unit at the University of Cambridge, discuss insights gained from social, cognitive,... Read More about How attitude and behaviour affect our reactions to risk: The gorilla in the room.

Dissociating the neural mechanisms of distance and spatial reference frames (2014)
Journal Article
Lane, A. R., Ball, K., & Ellison, A. (2015). Dissociating the neural mechanisms of distance and spatial reference frames. Neuropsychologia, 74, 42-49. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2014.12.019

This study investigated if the neural mechanisms involved in processing distance (near and far) and frame of reference (egocentric and allocentric) can be dissociated. 36 participants completed a conjunction visual search task using either an egocent... Read More about Dissociating the neural mechanisms of distance and spatial reference frames.

Atypical right hemispheric functioning in the euthymic state of bipolar affective disorder (2014)
Journal Article
Najt, P., & Hausmann, M. (2014). Atypical right hemispheric functioning in the euthymic state of bipolar affective disorder. Psychiatry Research, 220(1-2), 315-321. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psychres.2014.08.015

Bipolar disorder (BD) has been associated with right hemisphere dysfunction. These findings usually come from studies that have not distinguished between symptomatic and euthymic states of BD. The present study aims to investigate atypical right (and... Read More about Atypical right hemispheric functioning in the euthymic state of bipolar affective disorder.

Automated measurement of resolution acuity in infants using remote eye-tracking (2014)
Journal Article
Jones, P., Kalwarowsky, K., Atkinson, J., Braddick, O., & Nardini, M. (2014). Automated measurement of resolution acuity in infants using remote eye-tracking. Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science, 55(12), 8102-8110. https://doi.org/10.1167/iovs.14-15108

Purpose. To validate a novel, automated test of infant resolution acuity based on remote eye-tracking. Methods. Infants aged 2 to 12 months were tested binocularly using a new adaptive computerized test of infant vision using eye tracking (ACTIVE), a... Read More about Automated measurement of resolution acuity in infants using remote eye-tracking.

Inner experience in the scanner: Can high fidelity apprehensions of inner experience be integrated with fMRI? (2014)
Journal Article
Kühn, S., Fernyhough, C., Alderson-Day, B., & Hurlburt, R. (2014). Inner experience in the scanner: Can high fidelity apprehensions of inner experience be integrated with fMRI?. Frontiers in Psychology, 5, https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2014.01393

To provide full accounts of human experience and behavior, research in cognitive neuroscience must be linked to inner experience, but introspective reports of inner experience have often been found to be unreliable. The present case study aimed at pr... Read More about Inner experience in the scanner: Can high fidelity apprehensions of inner experience be integrated with fMRI?.

An Automated High-Level Saliency Predictor for Smart Game Balancing (2014)
Journal Article
Koulieris, G. A., Drettakis, G., Cunningham, D., & Mania, K. (2015). An Automated High-Level Saliency Predictor for Smart Game Balancing. ACM Transactions on Applied Perception, 11(4), Article 17. https://doi.org/10.1145/2637479

Successfully predicting visual attention can significantly improve many aspects of computer graphics: scene design, interactivity and rendering. Most previous attention models are mainly based on low-level image features, and fail to take into accoun... Read More about An Automated High-Level Saliency Predictor for Smart Game Balancing.

Using Compressed Audio-visual Words for Multi-modal Scene Classification (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Kurcius, J., & Breckon, T. (2014, November). Using Compressed Audio-visual Words for Multi-modal Scene Classification. Presented at Proc. International Workshop on Computational Intelligence for Multimedia Understanding

We present a novel approach to scene classification using combined audio signal and video image features and compare this methodology to scene classification results using each modality in isolation. Each modality is represented using summary feature... Read More about Using Compressed Audio-visual Words for Multi-modal Scene Classification.

A Comparison of Features for Regression-based Driver Head Pose Estimation under Varying Illumination Conditions (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Walger, D., Breckon, T., Gaszczak, A., & Popham, T. (2014, November). A Comparison of Features for Regression-based Driver Head Pose Estimation under Varying Illumination Conditions. Presented at Proc. International Workshop on Computational Intelligence for Multimedia Understanding

Head pose estimation provides key information about driver activity and awareness. Prior comparative studies are limited to temporally consistent illumination conditions under the assumption of brightness constancy. By contrast the illumination condi... Read More about A Comparison of Features for Regression-based Driver Head Pose Estimation under Varying Illumination Conditions.

Colour constancy for an unseen surface (2014)
Journal Article
Norman, L., Akins, K., Heywood, C., & Kentridge, R. (2014). Colour constancy for an unseen surface. Current Biology, 24(23), 2822-2826. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2014.10.009

The illumination of a scene strongly affects our perception of objects in that scene, e.g., the pages of a book illuminated by candlelight will appear quite yellow relative to other types of artificial illuminants. Yet at the same time, the reader st... Read More about Colour constancy for an unseen surface.

The perception of gloss: A review (2014)
Journal Article
Chadwick, A., & Kentridge, R. (2015). The perception of gloss: A review. Vision Research, 109(Part B), 221-235. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.visres.2014.10.026

Gloss is a relatively little studied visual property of objects’ surfaces. The earliest recorded scientific reference to gloss appears to have been by Ingersoll in 1921: studies at this time were based on the assumption that gloss could be understood... Read More about The perception of gloss: A review.

A Photogrammetric Approach for Real-time 3D Localization and Tracking of Pedestrians in Monocular Infrared Imagery (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Kundegorski, M., & Breckon, T. (2014, October). A Photogrammetric Approach for Real-time 3D Localization and Tracking of Pedestrians in Monocular Infrared Imagery. Presented at Proc. SPIE Optics and Photonics for Counterterrorism, Crime Fighting and Defence

Target tracking within conventional video imagery poses a significant challenge that is increasingly being addressed via complex algorithmic solutions. The complexity of this problem can be fundamentally attributed to the ambiguity associated with ac... Read More about A Photogrammetric Approach for Real-time 3D Localization and Tracking of Pedestrians in Monocular Infrared Imagery.

3D Object Classification in Baggage Computed Tomography Imagery using Randomised Clustering Forests (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Mouton, A., Breckon, T., Flitton, G., & Megherbi, N. (2014, October). 3D Object Classification in Baggage Computed Tomography Imagery using Randomised Clustering Forests. Presented at Proc. International Conference on Image Processing

We investigate the feasibility of a codebook approach for the automated classification of threats in pre-segmented 3D baggage Computed Tomography (CT) security imagery. We compare the performance of five codebook models, using various combinations of... Read More about 3D Object Classification in Baggage Computed Tomography Imagery using Randomised Clustering Forests.

Trial History Effects in the Ventral Attentional Network (2014)
Journal Article
Scalf, P., Ahn, J., Beck, D., & Lleras, A. (2014). Trial History Effects in the Ventral Attentional Network. The Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 26(12), 2789-2797. https://doi.org/10.1162/jocn_a_00678

The ventral attentional network (VAN) is thought to drive “stimulus driven attention” [e.g., Asplund, C. L., Todd, J. J., Snyder, A. P., & Marois, R. A central role for the lateral prefrontal cortex in goal-directed and stimulus-driven attention. Nat... Read More about Trial History Effects in the Ventral Attentional Network.

Associations between intrusive thoughts, reality discrimination and hallucination-proneness in healthy young adults (2014)
Journal Article
Smailes, D., Meins, E., & Fernyhough, C. (2015). Associations between intrusive thoughts, reality discrimination and hallucination-proneness in healthy young adults. Cognitive Neuropsychiatry, 20(1), 72-80. https://doi.org/10.1080/13546805.2014.973487

Introduction. People who experience intrusive thoughts are at increased risk of developing hallucinatory experiences, as are people who have weak reality discrimination skills. No study has yet examined whether these two factors interact to make a pe... Read More about Associations between intrusive thoughts, reality discrimination and hallucination-proneness in healthy young adults.

Does visual working memory represent the predicted locations of future target objects? An event-related brain potential study (2014)
Journal Article
Grubert, A., & Eimer, M. (2015). Does visual working memory represent the predicted locations of future target objects? An event-related brain potential study. Brain Research, 1626, 258-266. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.brainres.2014.10.011

During the maintenance of task-relevant objects in visual working memory, the contralateral delay activity (CDA) is elicited over the hemisphere opposite to the visual field where these objects are presented. The presence of this lateralised CDA comp... Read More about Does visual working memory represent the predicted locations of future target objects? An event-related brain potential study.

Non-obstructing 3D depth cues influence reach-to-grasp kinematics (2014)
Journal Article
Worssam, C. J., Meade, L. C., & Connolly, J. D. (2015). Non-obstructing 3D depth cues influence reach-to-grasp kinematics. Experimental Brain Research, 233(2), 385-396. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00221-014-4119-2

It has been demonstrated that both visual feedback and the presence of certain types of non-target objects in the workspace can affect kinematic measures and the trajectory path of the moving hand during reach-to-grasp movements. Yet no study to date... Read More about Non-obstructing 3D depth cues influence reach-to-grasp kinematics.

What is it like to have type-2 blindsight? Drawing inferences from residual function in type-1 blindsight (2014)
Journal Article
Kentridge, R. (2015). What is it like to have type-2 blindsight? Drawing inferences from residual function in type-1 blindsight. Consciousness and Cognition, 32, 41-44. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.concog.2014.08.005

Controversy surrounds the question of whether the experience sometimes elicited by visual stimuli in blindsight (type-2 blindsight) is visual in nature or whether it is some sort of non-visual experience. The suggestion that the experience is visual... Read More about What is it like to have type-2 blindsight? Drawing inferences from residual function in type-1 blindsight.