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Publications 2006-2010

2010

  • Aaen-Stockdale, C.R., Farivar, R. & Hess, R.F. (2010). Co-operative interactions between first- and second-order mechanisms in the processing of structure from motion. Journal of Vision, 10(13): 6, 1-9.
  • Barnes, G.R., Li, Xingfeng, Thompson, B, Singh, K.D., Dumoulin, SO. & Hess, R.F (2010). Decreased grey matter concentration in the lateral geniculate nuclei in human amblyopes. Invest. Opthal.Vis. Sci. 51, 1432-1438.
  • Bell, J., Hancock, S., Kingdom, F. A. A., & Peirce, J. W. (2010). Global shape processing: which parts form the whole? J. Vision, 10(6): 16, 1-13.
  • Chappell, M. & Mullen, K.T. (2010). The magnocellular visual pathway and the Flash-Lag illusion. Journal of Vision, 10(11): 24, 2010. 
  • Dallala, R., Wang, Y.-Z. & Hess R.F. (2010). The global shape detection deficit in strabismic amblyopia: Contribution of local orientation and position. Vision Research, 50, 1612-1617.
  • Garcia-Suarez, L. & Mullen, K.T. (2010). Global motion processing in human color vision: a deficit for second order stimuli. Journal of Vision, 10(14): 20, 1–11. 
  • Gheorghiu, E., Kingdom, F. A .A. & Varshney, R. (2010). Curvature coding is tuned for motion direction. Journal of Vision, 10(3):18, 1-19.
  • Gheorghiu, E., Kingdom, F. A. A. & Witney, E. (2010). Size and shape after-effects: same or different mechanism. Vision Research, 50, 2127-2136.
  • Hansen, B.C., Thompson, B., Hess, R.F., & Ellemberg, D. (2010). Extracting the internal representation of faces from human brain activity: An analogue to reverse correlation. NeuroImage, 51, 373-390.
  • Hess, R.F., Thompson, B., Gole, G. & Mullen, K.T. (2010). The amblyopic deficit and its relationship to geniculo-cortical processing streams. J. Neurophysiology, 104(1), 475-483. 
  • Hess, R.F., Li, X-F., Lu, G., Thompson, B., & Hansen, B.C. (2010). The contrast dependence of the cortical fMRI deficit in amblyopia; a selective loss at higher contrasts. Human Brain Mapping, 31(8), 1233-1248.
  • Hess, R.F., Mansouri, B. & Thompson, B. (2010). A new binocular approach to the treatment of amblyopia in adults well beyond the critical period of visual development. Restorative Neurology & Neuroscience, 28(6), 793-802.
  • Hess, R.F., Mansouri, B. & Thompson, B. (2010). A binocular approach to treating amblyopia: Antisuppression therapy. Optometry & Vision Science, 87(9), 697-704.
  • Kingdom, F. A. A. (2010). Obituary: Paul Whittle (1938-2009). Perception. 39, 577-580.
  • Kingdom. F. A. A., Bell, J., Gheorghiu, E. & Malkoc, G. (2010) Chromatic variations suppress suprathreshold brightness variations. Journal of Vision, 10(10):13, 1-13.
  • Leh, S.E., Ptito, A., Schonwiesner, M., Chakravarty, M.M. & Mullen, K.T. (2010). Blindsight mediated by an S-cone independent collicular pathway: an fMRI study in hemispherectomized subjects. J. Cognitive Neuroscience. 
  • Li, G., Talebi, V., Yoonessi, A., Baker, C.L. (Jr.): (2010). A FPGA real-time model of single and multiple visual cortex neurons. Journal of Neuroscience Methods, 193: 62-66.
  • Li, X., Marrelec, G., Hess, R.F., & Benali, H. (2010). A nonlinear identification method to study effective connectivity in functional MRI. Medical Image Analysis, 14, 30-38.
  • Li, J., Lam, C.S., Yu, M., Hess, R.F., Chan, L.Y., Maehara G., Woo, G.C. & Thompson, B. (2010). Quantifying sensory eye dominance in the normal visual system: a new technique and insights into variation across traditional tests. Invest. Ophthalmology and Visual Sci., doi:10.1167/iovs.10-5549.
  • Maehara, G., Huang, P.-C. & Hess, R.F. (2010). The effects of flankers on contrast detection and discrimination in binocular, monocular, and dichoptic presentations. Journal of Vision, 10(4): 13; doi:10.1167/10.4.13.
  • Meso, A.I. & Hess, R.F. (2010). Visual motion gradient sensitivity shows scale invariant spatial frequency and speed tuning properties. Vision Research, 50, 1475-1485.
  • Motoyoshi, I. & Kingdom, F .A .A. (2010). The role of co-circularity of local elements in texture perception. Journal of Vision, 10(1):3, 1-8.
  • Mullen, K.T. Thompson, B. & Hess, R.F. (2010) Responses of the human visual cortex and LGN to achromatic and chromatic temporal modulation: an fMRI study. Journal of Vision, 10(13): 13, 1–19

2009

  • Aaen-Stockdale, C.R., Thompson, B., Huang, P.-C. & Hess, R.F. (2009). Low level mechanisms may contribute to paradoxical motion percepts. Journal of Vision, 9(5):9, 1-14, 
  • Bell, J. & Kingdom, F. A. A. (2009). Global contour shapes are coded differently from their local components. Vision Research, 49, 1702-1710.
  • Bell, J., Gheorghiu, E. & Kingdom, F. A. A. (2009). Orientation tuning of curvature adaptation reveals both curvature-polarity selective and non-selective mechanisms. Journal of Vision, 9(12):3, 1-11. 
  • Gheorghiu, E. & Kingdom, F. A. A. (2009). Multiplication in curvature processing. Journal of Vision, 9(2):23, 1-17. 
  • Gheorghiu, E., Kingdom, F. A. A., Sull, M. & Wells, S. (2009). Curvature coding in illusory contours. Vision Research, 49, 2518-2530.
  • Gheorghiu, E., Kingdom, F. A. A., Thai, M-T, & Sampasivam, L. (2009). Binocular properties of curvature-encoding mechanisms revealed through two shape after-effects. Vision Research, 49, 1765-1774.
  • Hess, R. F., Huang, P-C., & Maehara, G. (2009). Spatial distortions produced by purely binocularly-based visual motion. Perception, 38(7), 1012-1018.
  • Hess, R.F., Li, Xingfeng, Mansouri, B., Thompson, B. & Hansen, B.C. (2009). Selectivity as well as sensitivity loss characterizes the cortical spatial frequency deficit in amblyopia. Human Brain Mapping, 30(12), 4054–4069.
  • Hess, R.F., Mansouri, B., Thompson, B. & Gheorghiu, E. (2009). Latent stereopsis for motion-in- depth in strabismic amblyopia. Invest. Ophthalmol. & Vis. Sci. 50, 5006-5016.
  • Hess, R.F., Thompson, B., Gole, G. & Mullen, K.T. (2009.) Deficient responses from lateral geniculate nucleus in humans with amblyopia. European Journal of Neuroscience, 29 1064-1070.
  • Kingdom, F. A. A. & Prins, N. (2009). Texture-surround suppression of contour shape coding in human vision. Neuroreport, 20, 5-8.
  • Leh, S.E., Ptito, A., Schonwiesner, M., Chakravarty, M.M. & Mullen, K.T. (2009). Blindsight mediated by an S-cone independent collicular pathway: an fMRI study in hemispherectomized subjects. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience. 
  • Maehara, G., Huang, P-C., & Hess, R. F. (2009). Importance of phase alignment for interocular suppression. Vision Research, 49(14), 1838-47.
  • Mansouri, B., Hansen B.C. & Hess, R. F. (2009). Disrupted retinotopic maps in amblyopia. Invest. Ophthalmol. & Vis. Sci. 50, 3218-3225.
  • Medina, J.M. & Mullen, K.T. (2009). Cross-orientation masking in human color vision. Journal of Vision, 9(3):20,1-16. 
  • Thompson, B., Aaen-Stockdale, C., Koski, L. & Hess, R.F. (2009). A double dissociation between striate and extrastriate visual cortex for pattern motion perception revealed using rTMS. Human Brain Mapping, 30, 3115-3126.
  • Yoonessi, A. & Kingdom, F. A. A. (2009). Dichoptic difference thresholds for uniform color changes applied to natural scenes. Journal of Vision, 9(2):3, 1-12.

2008

  • Aaen-Stockdale, C.R. & Hess, R.F. (2008) The amblyopic deficit for global motion is spatial scale invariant. Vision Research, 48 (19), 1965-1971.
  • Aaen-Stockdale, C.R., Thompson, B., Hess, R.F. & Troje, N.F. (2008). Biological motion perception is cue-invariant. Journal of Vision, 8(8)(6), 1-11.
  • Baker, D.H., Meese, T.S. & Hess, R.F. (2008) Contrast masking in stabismic amblyopia: attenuation, noise, interocular suppression and binocular summation. Vision Research, 48 (15), 1624-1640.
  • Dumoulin S.O., Dakin S.C., & Hess R.F. (2008) Sparsely distributed contours dominate extra-striate response to complex scenes. NeuroImage, 42 (2), 890-901.
  • Gheorghiu, E. & Kingdom, F. A. A. (2008) Spatial properties of curvature-encoding mechanisms revealed through the shape-frequency and shape-amplitude after-effects. Vision Research, 48, 1107-1124.
  • Hansen, B.C., Farivar, R., & Hess, R.F. (2008). An investigation of spatial phase alignment for the discrimination and recognition of human faces. Journal of Vision, 8 (4) 1-14.
  • Hess, R. F. and Wilcox, L. M. (2008) The transient nature of 2nd order stereopsis. Vision Research, 48, 1327-1334.
  • Hess, R. F. Baker, D. H, May K. A and Wang, J. (2008). On the decline of 1st and 2nd order sensitivity with eccentricity. Journal of Vision, 8(1), 1-12.
  • Hess, R.F. & Aaen-Stockdale, C.R. (2008). Global motion processing: the effect of spatial scale and eccentricity. Journal of Vision, 8(4)(22), 1-11.
  • Huang, P-C and Hess, R. F. The dynamics of collinear facilitation: fast but sustained. Vision Research, 48 (27), 2715-2722.
  • Kingdom, F. A. A. (2008) Perceiving light versus material. Vision Research, 48, 2090-2105.
  • Mansouri, B., Thompson, B. and Hess, R.F. (2008) Measurement of suprathreshold binocular interactions in amblyopia. Vision Research, 48 (28), 2775-2784.
  • May, K.A. & Hess, R.F. (2008). Effects of element separation and carrier wavelength on detection of snakes and ladders: Implications for models of contour integration. Journal of Vision, 8(13)(4), 1-23.
  • Michna, M. L. & Mullen, K.T. The contribution of color to global motion. Journal of Vision, 8(5)(10), 1-12, 2008.
  • Mullen, K.T., Dumoulin, S.O. & Hess, R.F. (2008) Color responses of the human lateral geniculate nucleus: Selective amplification of S-cone signals between the lateral geniculate nucleus and primary visual cortex measured with high-field fMRI. European J. Neuroscience, 28, 1911-1923.
  • Shevell, S. K. & Kingdom, F. A. A. (2008). Color in complex scenes. Annual Review of Psychology, 59, 143-166.
  • Thompson, B., Aaen-Stockdale, C. and Hess, R.F. (2008). Plaid perception is only subtly altered in strabismic amblyopia. Vision Research, 48, 1307-1314.
  • Thompson, B., Farivar, R., Hansen, B.C. & Hess, R.F. (2008). A dichopic projection system for visual psychophysics in fMRI scanners. Journal of Neuroscience Methods, 168, 71-75.
  • Thompson, B., Hansen, B.C., Hess, R.F. and Troje, N.F. (2008). Amblyopic perception of biological motion. Journal of Vision, 8(4)(22), 1-14.
  • Thompson, B., Mansouri, B. Koski, L. and Hess, R.F. (2008). Brain plasticity in the adult: restoration of function in amblyopia using rTMS. Current Biology, 18, 1067-1071.
  • Yoonessi, A. & Kingdom, F. A. A. (2008) Comparison of sensitivity to color changes in natural and phase-scrambled scenes. J. Opt. Soc. Am. A, 25, 676-684.
  • Yoonessi, A., Gheorghiu, E. & Kingdom, F. A. A. (2008) The Leaning Tower Illusion: orientation contrast or perspective distortion? Reply to Maniatis. Perception, 37, 1773-1775.
  • Yoonessi, A., Kingdom, F. A. A. & Alqawlaq, S. (2008) Is color patchy? J. Optic. Soc. Am. A, 25, 1330-1338.

2007

  • Aaen-Stockdale, C., Ledgeway, T. & Hess, R.F. (2007). Second-order optic flow processing. Vision Research, 47, 1798-1808.
  • Baker, D.H. , Meese, T.S., Mansouri, B. & Hess, R.F. (2007). Binocular summation of contrast remains intact in strabismic amblyopia. Invest. Ophthalmol. & Vis. Sci. 48, 5332-5338.
  • Connor, I.P, Odom J.V., Schwartz T., Mendola, J.D. (2007) Monocular Activation of V1 and V2 in Amblyopic Adults Measured with fMRI. Journal of the American Association for Pediatric Ophthalmology and Strabismus, 11(4):341-50.
  • Connor, I.P, Odom J.V., Schwartz T., Mendola, J.D. (2007) Retinotopic Maps and Foveal Suppression in Visual Cortex of Amblyopic Adults. Journal of Physiology, 583(1):159-173.
  • Dumoulin, S.O. & Hess, R.F. (2007). Cortical specialization for concentric shape processing. Vision Research, 47, 1608-1613.
  • Gheorghiu, E. & Kingdom, F. A. A. (2007) The spatial features underlying the shape-frequency and shape-amplitude after-effects. Vision Research, 47, 834-844.
  • Gheorghiu, E. & Kingdom, F. A. A. (2007) Chromatic tuning of contour-shape mechanisms revealed through the shape-frequency and shape-amplitude after-effects. Vision Research, 47, 1935-1949.
  • Hansen, B.C. & Hess, R.F. (2007). Structural sparseness and spatial phase alignment in natural scenes. J. Opt. Soc. Am. A. 24, 1873-1885.
  • Hess, R.F., Hutchinson, C.V., Ledgeway, T. & Mansouri, B. (2007). Binocular influences on global motion processing in the human visual system. Vision Research, 47, 1682-1692.
  • Huang, P.-C., Mullen, K.T. & Hess, R. F. (2007). Collinear facilitation in color vision. Journal of Vision, 7(11), 1-14.
  • Johnson, A., Prins, N., Kingdom, F. A. A. & Baker, C. L Jr. (2007) Ecologically valid combinations of first- and second-order surface markings facilitate texture discrimination. Vision Research. 47, 2281-2290.
  • Kingdom, F.A.A., Field, D.J. & Olmos, A. (2007) Does spatial invariance result from insensitivity to change? Journal of Vision 7(14)11, 1-13.
  • Kingdom, F. A. A., Yoonessi, A. & Gheorghiu, E. (2007a) The Leaning Tower illusion: a new illusion of perspective. Perception, 36, 475-477.
  • Kingdom, F.A.A., Yoonessi, A. & Gheorghiu, E. (2007b) Leaning Tower illusion. Scholarpedia.
  • Li, X.. -F., Dumoulin, S.O., Mansouri, B., & Hess, R.F. (2007). The fidelity of the cortical retinotopic map in human amblyopia. European Journal of Neuroscience 25, 1265-1277.
  • Li, X.-F., Dumoulin, S.O., Mansouri, B., & Hess, R.F. (2007). Cortical deficits in human amblyopia: their regional distribution and their relationship to the contrast detection deficit. Invest. Ophthalmol. & Vis. Sci. 48, 1575-1591.
  • Mansouri, B., Hess, R.F. & Allen, H.A. (2007). Orientation variance discrimination in amblyopia. J. Opt. Soc. Am. A. 24, 2499-2504.
  • May, K.A. & Hess, R.F. (2007a). Dynamics of snakes and ladders. Journal Vision 7(12), 1-9.
  • May, K.A. & Hess. R.F. (2007b). Ladder contours are undetectable in the periphery: a crowding effect. Journal of Vision 7(13), 1-15.
  • Medina, J.M. & Mullen, K.T. Color-luminance interactions in binocular summation. Vision Research, 47, 1120-1128, 2007. 
  • Mendola J.D. & Conner I.P. (2007) Eye Dominance Predicts fMRI Signals in Human Retinotopic Cortex. Neuroscience Letters, 414(1):30–34.
  • Michna, M. L., Yoshizawa, T. & Mullen, K.T. Chromatic mechanisms mediating motion for S-cone isolating stimuli. Vision Research, 47, 1042-1054, 2007. 
  • Motoyoshi, I. & Kingdom, F. A. A. (2007) Differential roles of contrast polarity reveal two streams of second-order processing. Vision Research, 47, 2047-2054.
  • Mullen, K.T., Dumoulin, S.O., McMahon, K.L., de Zubicarary, G.I. & Hess, R.F. Sensitivity of human retinotopic visual cortex to red-green, blue-yellow and achromatic contrast. European Journal of Neuroscience, 25, 491-502, 2007. 
  • Prins, N., Kingdom, F. A. A. & Hayes, A. (2007) Detecting low shape-frequencies in smooth and jagged contours. Vision Research, 47, 2390-2402.
  • Song, YuNing, and Baker, C.L.(Jr.): Neuronal response to texture- and contrast-defined boundaries in early visual cortex Visual Neuroscience 24:65-77 (2007).
  • Thompson, B., Hansen, B.C., Hess, R.F. & Troje, N.F. (2007). Peripheral vision: Good for biological motion, bad for signal noise segregation? Journal of Vision, 7(10), 1-7.
  • Yoonessi, A. & Kingdom, F. A. A. (2007) Faithful representation of colours on a CRT monitor. Color Research and Application, 32, 388-393.

2006

  • Beaudot & Mullen (2006) Orientation discrimination in human vision: Psychophysics & Modeling. Vision Research, 46, 26-46
  • Dumoulin, S.O. & Hess, R.F. (2006). Modulation of V1 activity by shape: image-statistics or shape-based perception ? J. Neurophysiol. 95, 3654-3664
  • Gheorghiu, E. & Kingdom, F. A. A. (2006) Luminance-contrast properties of contour-shape processing revealed through the shape-frequency after-effect. Vision Research, 46, 3603-3615
  • Hansen, B.C. & Hess, R.F. (2006). The role of spatial phase in texture segmentation and contour integration. Journal of Vision, 6, 594-615.
  • Hansen, B.C. & Hess, R.F. (2006). Discrimination of amplitude spectrum slope in the fovea and parafovea and the local amplitude distributions of natural scene imagery. Journal of Vision, 6, 696-711.
  • Hess, R. F. Wang, Y-Z & Liu, C-H (2006) Accessibility of spatial channels for stereo and motion. Vision Research 46, 1318-1326.
  • Hess, R. F., Mansouri, B. Dakin, S. C. & Allen, H. (2006) Integration of local motion is normal in amblyopia. J. Opt. Soc. Amer. A 23 (5) 1-8.
  • Hess, R.F., Schmid, K.L., Dumoulin, S.O., Field, D.J. & Brinkworth, D.R. (2006). What image properties regulate eye growth? Current Biology 16, 687-691.
  • Huang P.C. , Hess, R. F. & Dakin, S. C. (2006). Flank facilitation and contour integration: Different sites. Vision Research, 46, 3699-706.
  • Huang, P.C., Kingdom, F. A. A. & Hess, R. F. (2006). Only two phase mechanisms, ��cosine, in human vision. Vision Research, 46, 2069-2081.
  • Kingdom, F. A. A., Wong, K., Yoonessi, A. & Malkoc (2006) Colour contrast influences perceived depth in combined shading and texture patterns. Spatial Vision, 19, 147-159.
  • Kingdom, F. A. A. & Kasrai, R. (2006) Colour unmasks dark targets in complex displays. Vision Research, 46, 814-822
  • Ledgeway, T. & Hess, R. F. (2006) The spatial frequency and orientation selectivity of mechanisms that extract motion-defined contours. Vision Research 46, 568-578.
  • Leh, S.E., Mullen, K.T. & Ptito, A. (2006) Absence of S-cone input in human blindsight following hemispherectomy. European Journal of Neuroscience, 24, 2954-2960.
  • Mansouri, B. & Hess, R.F. (2006). The global processing deficit in amblyopia involves noise segregation. Vision Research, 46, 4104-4117.
  • Prins, N. & Kingdom, F. A. A. (2006) Energy not features underlies texture-modulation detection. Perception, 35. 1035-1046.
  • Sakurai, M. & Mullen, K.T. (2006). Cone weights for the two cone-opponent systems in peripheral vision and asymmetries of cone contrast sensitivity. Vision Research, 46, 4346-4354.
  • Schmid, K. L. Brinkworth, D. R. Wallace, K. M. & Hess, R. F. (2006) The effect of manipulations to target contrast on emmetropization in chick. Vision Research 46, 1099-1107.
  • Simmers, A.J., Ledgeway, T., Mansouri, B., Hutchinson, C.V. & Hess, R.F. (2006). The extent of the dorsal extra-striate deficit in amblyopia. Vision Research
  • Song, YuNing, and Baker, C.L.(Jr.): (2006) Neural mechanism mediating responses to abutting gratings: Luminance edges vs. illusory contour. Visual Neuroscience 23:181-199.
  • Zhan, C., and Baker, C.L.(Jr.):(2006) Boundary cue invariance in cortical orientation maps. Cerebral Cortex 16:896-906.

Book chapters

  • Hess, R. F. & Daw, N. (2010). Amblyopia. In Ocular Disease: Mechanisms and Management, by Leonard A. Levin & Daniel M. Albert (Eds). Saunders (Elsevier) ISBN: 978-0-7020-2983-7. Chapter 58, pp 445-453.
  • Kingdom, F.A.A. & Prins, N. (2010). Psychophysics: A Practical Introduction. Academic Press, an imprint of Elsevier, London.
  • Mendola J.D. (2009). Amblyopia. In Encyclopedia of Perception, by B. Goldsmith (Ed). Sage.
  • Pitchford, N.J. & Mullen, K.T. (2006). The developmental acquisition of basic colour terms. In Progress in Colour Studies, 2: Psychological Aspects, by N. J. Pitchford & C. P. Biggam (Eds). John Benjamins.
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