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Human infants dissociate structural and dynamic information in biological motion: evidence from neural systems (2008)
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Reid, V., Hoehl, S., Landt, J., & Striano, T. (2008). Human infants dissociate structural and dynamic information in biological motion: evidence from neural systems. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 3(2), 161-167. https://doi.org/10.1093/scan/nsn008

This study investigates how human infants process and interpret human movement. Neural correlates to the perception of (i) possible biomechanical motion, (ii) impossible biomechanical motion and (iii) biomechanically possible motion but nonhuman ‘cor... Read More about Human infants dissociate structural and dynamic information in biological motion: evidence from neural systems.

Reflexive attention attenuates change blindness (but only briefly) (2008)
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Smith, D., & Schenk, T. (2008). Reflexive attention attenuates change blindness (but only briefly). Perception & psychophysics, 70(3), 489-495. https://doi.org/10.3758/pp.70.3.489

Humans are remarkably insensitive to large changes in a visual display if the change occurs simultaneously with a secondary perceptual event. A widely held view is that this change blindness occurs because the secondary perceptual event prevents the... Read More about Reflexive attention attenuates change blindness (but only briefly).

Clinical treatment options for patients with homonymous visual field defects (2008)
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Lane, A., Smith, D., & Schenk, T. (2008). Clinical treatment options for patients with homonymous visual field defects. Clinical Ophthalmology, 2(1), 93-102. https://doi.org/10.2147/opth.s2371

The objective of this review is to evaluate treatments for homonymous visual field defects (HVFDs). We distinguish between three treatments: visual restoration training (VRT), optical aids, and compensatory training. VRT is both the most ambitious an... Read More about Clinical treatment options for patients with homonymous visual field defects.

Delay abolishes the obstacle avoidance deficit in unilateral optic ataxia (2008)
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Rice, N., Edwards, M., Schindler, I., Punt, T., McIntosh, R., Humphreys, G., …Milner, A. (2008). Delay abolishes the obstacle avoidance deficit in unilateral optic ataxia. Neuropsychologia, 46(5), 1549-1557. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2008.01.012

Optic ataxic patients have deficits in the visual control of manual reaching and grasping. It has been established previously that these deficits in target-directed behaviour improve following a delay in response. Recently it has been demonstrated th... Read More about Delay abolishes the obstacle avoidance deficit in unilateral optic ataxia.

What are you looking at? Infants’ neural processing of an adult’s object-directed eye gaze (2008)
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Hoehl, S., Reid, V., Mooney, J., & Striano, T. (2008). What are you looking at? Infants’ neural processing of an adult’s object-directed eye gaze. Developmental Science, 11(1), 10-16. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-7687.2007.00643.x

Previous research suggests that by 4 months of age infants use the eye gaze of adults to guide their attention and facilitate processing of environmental information. Here we address the question of how infants process the relation between another pe... Read More about What are you looking at? Infants’ neural processing of an adult’s object-directed eye gaze.

Attended but unseen: Visual attention is not sufficient for visual awareness (2007)
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Kentridge, R., Nijboer, T., & Heywood, C. (2008). Attended but unseen: Visual attention is not sufficient for visual awareness. Neuropsychologia, 46(3), 864-869. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2007.11.036

Does any one psychological process give rise to visual awareness? One candidate is selective attention—when we attend to something it seems we always see it. But if attention can selectively enhance our response to an unseen stimulus then attention c... Read More about Attended but unseen: Visual attention is not sufficient for visual awareness.

Emotional modulation of body-selective visual areas (2007)
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Peelen, M., Atkinson, A., Andersson, F., & Vuilleumier, P. (2007). Emotional modulation of body-selective visual areas. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 2(4), 274-283. https://doi.org/10.1093/scan/nsm023

Emotionally expressive faces have been shown to modulate activation in visual cortex, including face-selective regions in ventral temporal lobe. Here we tested whether emotionally expressive bodies similarly modulate activation in body-selective regi... Read More about Emotional modulation of body-selective visual areas.

Q-cgi: new techniques to assess variation in perception applied to facial attractiveness (2007)
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Burt, D., Kentridge, R., Good, J., Perrett, D., Tiddeman, B., & Boothroyd, L. (2007). Q-cgi: new techniques to assess variation in perception applied to facial attractiveness. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 274(1627), 2779-2784. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2007.1037

We present novel methods for assessing variation in the perception of subjective cues based on a fusion of Q-methodology with computer graphics techniques. Participants first Q-sort face stimuli based upon a subjective quality; a randomization-based... Read More about Q-cgi: new techniques to assess variation in perception applied to facial attractiveness.

Visually Guided Reaching Depends on Motion Area MT+ (2007)
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Whitney, D., Ellison, A., Rice, N., Arnold, D., Goodale, M., Walsh, V., & Milner, A. (2007). Visually Guided Reaching Depends on Motion Area MT+. Cerebral Cortex, 17(11), 2644-2649. https://doi.org/10.1093/cercor/bhl172

Visual information is crucial for goal-directed reaching. A number of studies have recently shown that motion in particular is an important source of information for the visuomotor system. For example, when reaching a stationary object, movement of t... Read More about Visually Guided Reaching Depends on Motion Area MT+.

The interaction of brain regions during visual search processing as revealed by transcranial magnetic stimulation (2007)
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Ellison, A., Lane, A., & Schenk, T. (2007). The interaction of brain regions during visual search processing as revealed by transcranial magnetic stimulation. Cerebral Cortex, 17(11), 2579-2584. https://doi.org/10.1093/cercor/bhl165

Although it has long been known that right posterior parietal cortex (PPC) has a role in certain visual search tasks, and human motion area V5 is involved in processing tasks requiring attention to motion, little is known about how these areas may in... Read More about The interaction of brain regions during visual search processing as revealed by transcranial magnetic stimulation.

Enhanced probe discrimination at the location of a colour singleton (2007)
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Smith, D., & Schenk, T. (2007). Enhanced probe discrimination at the location of a colour singleton. Experimental Brain Research, 181(2), 367-375. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00221-007-0937-9

There is ample evidence to suggest that preparing to saccade to a location is sufficient to produce attentional shifts to this location. However, it is not clear whether engagement of the eye-movement system is also a necessary condition for any spat... Read More about Enhanced probe discrimination at the location of a colour singleton.

Evidence for distinct contributions of form and motion information to the recognition of emotions from body gestures (2007)
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Atkinson, A., Tunstall, M., & Dittrich, W. (2007). Evidence for distinct contributions of form and motion information to the recognition of emotions from body gestures. Cognition, 104(1), 59-72. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2006.05.005

The importance of kinematics in emotion perception from body movement has been widely demonstrated. Evidence also suggests that the perception of biological motion relies to some extent on information about spatial and spatiotemporal form, yet the co... Read More about Evidence for distinct contributions of form and motion information to the recognition of emotions from body gestures.

Time course of the involvement of the ventral and dorsal visual processing streams in a visuospatial task (2007)
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Ellison, A., & Cowey, A. (2007). Time course of the involvement of the ventral and dorsal visual processing streams in a visuospatial task. Neuropsychologia, 45(14), 3335-3339. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2007.06.014

A previous transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) study [Ellison, A., & Cowey, A. (2006). TMS can reveal contrasting functions of the dorsal and ventral visual processing streams. Experimental Brain Research, 175, 618–625] showed that both the dorsa... Read More about Time course of the involvement of the ventral and dorsal visual processing streams in a visuospatial task.

Spared ability to recognise fear from static and moving whole-body cues following bilateral amygdala damage (2007)
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Atkinson, A., Heberlein, A., & Adolphs, R. (2007). Spared ability to recognise fear from static and moving whole-body cues following bilateral amygdala damage. Neuropsychologia, 45(12), 2772-2782. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2007.04.019

Bilateral amygdala lesions impair the ability to identify certain emotions, especially fear, from facial expressions, and neuroimaging studies have demonstrated differential amygdala activation as a function of the emotional expression of faces, even... Read More about Spared ability to recognise fear from static and moving whole-body cues following bilateral amygdala damage.

FMRI Reveals a Dissociation between Grasping and Perceiving the Size of Real 3D Objects (2007)
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Cavina-Pratesi, C., Goodale, M., & Culham, J. (2007). FMRI Reveals a Dissociation between Grasping and Perceiving the Size of Real 3D Objects. PLoS ONE, 2(5), https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0000424

Background Almost 15 years after its formulation, evidence for the neuro-functional dissociation between a dorsal action stream and a ventral perception stream in the human cerebral cortex is still based largely on neuropsychological case studies. To... Read More about FMRI Reveals a Dissociation between Grasping and Perceiving the Size of Real 3D Objects.