Human Visual Perception Lab

Published Abstracts

Blakeslee, B. & McCourt, M.E. (2011). A low-level multiscale filtering account of stimuli often cited as evidence for higher-level mechanisms in brightness perception. Journal of Vision, 11(11): 363; doi:10.1167/11.11.363.

Leone, L., Blakeslee, B. & McCourt, M.E. (2011). Effects of Normal Aging on Suprathreshold Contrast Perception. Journal of Vision, 11(11): 463; doi:10.1167/ 11.11.463.

McCourt, M.E. & Blakeslee, B. (2010). Filling-in versus multiscale filtering explanations of brightness induction: Measuring the speed and magnitude of induction as a function of distance from the inducing/test field edge. 3rd Biennial National IDeA Symposium of Biomedical Research Excellence, Bethesda, MD, 6/10.

Blakeslee, B. & McCourt, M.E. (2010). Filling-in versus multiscale filtering : Measuring the speed and magnitude of brightness induction as a function of distance from an inducing edge. Journal of Vision, 10(7), 423 ; doi :10.1167/10.7.423.

McCourt, M.E., Blakeslee, B. & Cope, D. (2009). Simple cell response properties imply receptive field structure: Balanced Gabor and/or bandlimited field functions [Invited Presentation]. Geoff Henry International Festschrift, Australian National University, Canberra, A.C.T., Australia, 11/09.

McCourt, M.E. & Blakeslee, B. (2008). Brightening prospects for understanding the neural coding of perceived luminance [Invited Presentation]. Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto, Japan, 12/6/08.

McCourt, M.E. & Blakeslee, B. (2008). Brightening prospects for understanding the neural coding of perceived luminance [Keynote Presentation]. 27th Annual Meeting of the Japanese Psychonomic Society, Sendai, Japan, 12/6/08.

Blakeslee, B., Reetz, D. & McCourt, M. (2008). Spatial filtering versus anchoring accounts of brightness in staircase and simultaneous brightness contrast stimuli. Journal of Vision, 8(6), 285a, doi:10.1167/8.6.285.

Cope, D., Blakeslee, B. & McCourt, M. (2008). Structural theorems for simple cell receptive fields. Journal of Vision, 8(6), 802a, doi:10.1167/8.6.802.

McCourt, M. & Blakeslee, B. (2008). Coming to terms with lightness and brightness: effects of stimulus configuration and instructions on brightness and lightness judgments. Journal of Vision, 8(6), 291a, doi:10.1167/8.6.291.

McCourt, M. E. and Blakeslee, B. (2006) Spatiotemporal dependencies of brightness induction. Journal of Vision, 6(6), 705a, http://journalofvision.org/6/6/705/, doi:10.1167/6.6.705.

McCourt, M.E. & Blakeslee, B. (2005) Temporal properties of brightness induction [Abstract] Journal of Vision, 5(8), 242a, http://journalofvision.org/5/8/242/, doi:10.1167/5.8.242.

Blakeslee, B., Pasieka, W. & McCourt, M.E. (2004) Oriented multiscale spatial filtering and contrast normalization accounts for Howe's variation of White's effect. Journal of Vision, 4(8), 350a, http://journalofvision.org/4/8/350/, doi:10.1167/3.9.422.

McCourt, M.E., Blakeslee, B. & Pasieka, W. (2004) Temporal properties of brightness induction. Perception (Suppl.), 33, 15.

Blakeslee, B. and McCourt, M.E. (2003) The effect of spatial frequency on the White, the shifted White and checkerboard illusions: Data and modeling. Journal of Vision, 3(9), 422a, http://journalofvision.org/3/9/422/, doi:10.1167/3.9.422.

McCourt, M.E. and Blakeslee, B. (2002) Spatial frequency influences on brightness in White's effect and the checkerboard illusion. Journal of Vision, 2(10), 105a, http://journalofvision.org/2/10/105/,doi:10.1167/2.10.105.

McCourt, M.E. & Blakeslee, B. (2001) The perception of brightness, lightness and illumination: Lessons from art and science. The Art of Seeing and the Seeing of Art. Australian National University, Canberra, Australia.

McCourt, M.E. & Blakeslee, B. (2001) A multiscale spatial filtering account of complex brightness phenomena. The York Conference on Levels of Perception, 6/01.

Blakeslee B. & McCourt M.E. (2000) A multiscale spatial filtering account of the Wertheimer-Benary effect and the corrugated mondrian. Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science (Suppl.), 41, S237.

McCourt, M.E. and Blakeslee, B. (2000) A multiscale spatial filtering account of the White effect, simultaneous brightness contrast and grating induction. Vision 2000, Archidosso, Tuscany, Italy, 7/00, (Invited presentation).

Blakeslee, B. & McCourt, M.E. (1999) Render unto Hering: A nonlinear multiscale filtering account of brightness phenomena. Invited presentation at the Annual Meeting of the Optical Society of America (9/27/99), Santa Clara, CA.

Blakeslee B. & McCourt M.E. (1999) A multiscale spatial filtering account of the White effect, SBC and GI. Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science (Suppl.), 40, S748.

Blakeslee B. & McCourt M.E. (1998) A multiscale spatial filtering account of the White effect. Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science (Suppl.), 39, S159.

Maddess, T., Ibbotson, M.R., Dubious, R.A., Blakeslee, B. & McCourt, M.E. (1998) Adaptive processing of image motion by various brains. Workshop on Brain Function, Australian National University, Canberra, A.C.T., Australia.

Blakeslee B & McCourt M.E. (1997) A multiscale filtering account of grating induction and simultaneous brightness contrast. Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science (Suppl.), 38, S896.

McCourt M.E. Blakeslee B. Kingdom F.A.A. & Hagel R. (1997) Brightness with and without perceived transparency. Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science (Suppl.), 38, S897.

Blakeslee B & McCourt M.E. (1996) Does a single mechanism underlie simultaneous brightness contrast and grating induction? Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science (Suppl.), 37, S1066.

McCourt, M.E., Blakeslee, B. & Kingdom, F.A.A. (1996) The effect of perceived transparency on brightness judgments. OSA Annual Meeting Technical Digest. (Optical Society of America, Washington, DC, 1996).

McCourt M.E. Martinez-Uriegas E. & Blakeslee B. (1995) Temporal properties of grating induction. Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science (Suppl.), 36, S469.

McCourt M.E. & Blakeslee B. (1993) A contrast matching analysis of grating induction and suprathreshold contrast perception. Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science (Suppl.), 34, 586.

McCourt M.E. & Blakeslee B. (1992) The effect of edge blur on grating induction magnitude. OSA Annual Meeting Technical Digest (Optical Society of America, Washington, DC, 1992), 23, 119.

McCourt M.E. & Blakeslee B. (1991) Growth of contrast in grating induction. Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science (Suppl.), 32.

McCourt M.E. & Blakeslee B. (1989) Grating induction and photoreceptor function. Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science (Suppl.), 29.

Laughlin S.B. Blakeslee B. & Howard J. (1984) Synaptic noise as a limitation to visual coding in the blowfly retina. Proceedings of the Australian Physiological and Pharmacological Society, Adelaide, Australia.

Blakeslee B. & Jacobs G.H. (1984) Color vision in the ring tailed lemur (Lemur catta). Proceedings of the Australian Physiological and Pharmacological Society, Melbourne, Australia.

Blakeslee B. Howard J. & Laughlin S.B. (1984) The role of the fly pupil mechanism in regulating the signal to noise ratio of light adapted photoreceptors. Neuroscience Letters (Suppl.), 15, S20.

Howard J. Laughlin S.B. & Blakeslee B. (1984) Stimulus modulation simplifies shot noise analysis for photoreceptors. Neuroscience Letters (Suppl.), 15, S39.

Blakeslee B. & Jacobs G.H. (1982) Increment threshold functions of spectral mechanisms in the ground squirrel retina. Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science, (Suppl.), 22, 279.

Jacobs G.H. & Blakeslee B. (1980) Within species variations in color vision among New World monkeys. Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science, (Suppl.), 20, 136.