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Visual perception: more than meets the eyeDavid Burr
Department of Psychology, University of Florence, Via S Salvi 12, Florence, Italy
Curr Biol 21:R159-61. 2011..A recent study shows that objects changing in colour, luminance, size or shape appear to stop changing when they move. These and other compelling illusions provide tantalizing clues about the mechanisms and limitations of object analysis...
Constructing stable spatial maps of the worldDavid C Burr
Department of Psychology, University of Florence, via San Salvi 12, 50135 Florence, Italy
Perception 41:1355-72. 2012....
Spatiotopic coding and remapping in humansDavid C Burr
Department of Psychology, University of Florence, Via di San Salvi 12, Florence 50135, Italy
Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci 366:504-15. 2011..Finally, we introduce the concept of the spatio-temporal receptive field to describe the local spatiotopicity exhibited by many neurons when the eyes move...- Combining visual and auditory informationDavid Burr
Dipartimento di Psicologia, Universita degli Studi di Firenze, via S Nicolò 89, Firenze, Italy
Prog Brain Res 155:243-58. 2006..Finally, we go on to show that although visual and auditory information is combined to maximize efficiency, attentional resources for the two modalities are largely independent... - Perception: transient disruptions to neural space-timeDavid Burr
Department of Psychology, University of Florence, Italy
Curr Biol 16:R847-9. 2006.... - Saccades compress space, time and numberDavid C Burr
Department of Psychology, Universita degli Studi di Firenze, Via di San Salvi 12, 50135 Firenze, Italy
Trends Cogn Sci 14:528-33. 2010.... - Neural mechanisms for timing visual events are spatially selective in real-world coordinatesDavid Burr
Department of Psychology, Universita degli Studi di Firenze, via S Nicolò 89, Florence, Italy
Nat Neurosci 10:423-5. 2007.... - A visual sense of numberDavid Burr
Dipartimento di Psicologia, Universita degli Studi di Firenze, via S Nicolò 89, Florence 50125, Italy
Curr Biol 18:425-8. 2008..We suggest that the visual system has the capacity to estimate numerosity and that it is an independent primary visual property, not reducible to others like spatial frequency or density of texture [7]... - Temporal mechanisms of multimodal bindingDavid Burr
Department of Psychology, Universita degli Studi di Firenze, via S Nicolò 89, Florence 50125, Italy
Proc Biol Sci 276:1761-9. 2009.... - Auditory dominance over vision in the perception of interval durationDavid Burr
Department of Psychology, Universita degli Studi di Firenze, via S Nicolò 89, Florence, Italy
Exp Brain Res 198:49-57. 2009..As predicted by optimal cue combination, the temporal localization of audio-visual stimuli was better than for either sense alone... - Subitizing but not estimation of numerosity requires attentional resourcesDavid C Burr
Department of Psychology, Universita degli Studi di Firenze, Firenze, Italy
J Vis 10:20. 2010..We suggest that pre-attentive estimation mechanisms works at all ranges, but in the subitizing range, attentive mechanisms also come into play... - Motion psychophysics: 1985-2010David Burr
Department of Psychology, University of Florence, Florence, Italy
Vision Res 51:1431-56. 2011..While it is certainly not exhaustive, it attempts to cover most of the major achievements during that period, and speculate on where the field is heading... - Resolution for spatial segregation and spatial localization by motion signalsDavid Burr
Dipartimento di Psicologia, Universita di Firenze, via S Nicolò 89, Italy
Vision Res 46:932-9. 2006..1-1.5 times better, suggesting motion contours are less effectively encoded than luminance contours... - The effects of opposite-polarity dipoles on the detection of Glass patternsDavid Burr
Istituto di Neuroscienze del CNR, Pisa 56100, Italy
Vision Res 46:1139-44. 2006..The results suggest two stages of analysis for Glass patterns, an early stage of limited spatial extent where orientation is extracted, and a later stage that sums these orientation signals... - Adaptation affects both high and low (subitized) numbers under conditions of high attentional loadDavid C Burr
Department of Psychology, Universita degli Studi di Firenze, Firenze, Italy
Seeing Perceiving 24:141-50. 2011..These results support the idea that numerosity is detected by a perceptual mechanism that operates over the entire range of numbers, supplemented by an attention-based system for small numbers (subitizing)... - Eye movements: keeping vision stableDavid Burr
Dipartimento di Psicologia, Universita di Firenze, and Istituto di Neuroscienze del CNR, Via Moruzzi 1, Pisa 56100, Italy
Curr Biol 14:R195-7. 2004..Three recent studies begin to shed light on how the visual system suppresses the motion generated by these eye movements... - Vision: keeping the world still when the eyes moveDavid C Burr
Department of Psychology, Florence University, Italy CNR Institute of Neurosciences, Pisa, Italy
Curr Biol 20:R442-4. 2010..A long-standing problem for visual science is how the world remains so apparently stable in the face of continual rapid eye movements. New experimental evidence, and computational models are helping to solve this mystery... - Vision: in the blink of an eyeDavid Burr
Istituto di Neuroscienze del CNR, Pisa and Dipartimento di Psicologia, Universita di Firenze, Italy
Curr Biol 15:R554-6. 2005..A new study using imaging techniques identifies the neural structures in humans involved in suppressing vision processing and visual awareness during blinking... - Spatiotemporal dynamics of perisaccadic remapping in humans revealed by classification imagesMichela Panichi
Department of Psychology, University of Florence, Florence, Italy
J Vis 12:11. 2012.... - Neural latencies do not explain the auditory and audio-visual flash-lag effectRoberto Arrighi
Dipartimento di Psicologia, , Firenze, Italy
Vision Res 45:2917-25. 2005..We conclude that neural latencies do not, in general, explain the flash-lag effect. Rather, our data suggest that neural integration times are more important... - Perceived timing of first- and second-order changes in vision and hearingRoberto Arrighi
Dipartimento di Psicologia, Universita degli Studi di Firenze, Via S Niccolò 89, 50125, Firenze, Italy
Exp Brain Res 166:445-54. 2005..RT differences between these stimuli did not correspond with our temporal alignment data, suggesting that subjective alignments cannot be accounted for by a simple latency-based explanation... - Spatiotopic perceptual maps in humans: evidence from motion adaptationMarco Turi
Department of Physiological Sciences, Universita degli Studi di Pisa, Via S Zeno 31, Pisa, Italy
Proc Biol Sci 279:3091-7. 2012..The results provide clear evidence for a spatiotopic map in humans: one which can be influenced by image motion... - Perceptual synchrony of audiovisual streams for natural and artificial motion sequencesRoberto Arrighi
Istituto Nazionale di Ottica Applicata, Firenze, Largo E Fermi 6, Italy
J Vis 6:260-8. 2006..The results are discussed in terms of real-world constraints for perceptual synchrony and possible neural mechanisms... - Spatiotopic visual maps revealed by saccadic adaptation in humansEckart Zimmermann
Psychology Department, University of Florence, 50135 Florence, Italy
Curr Biol 21:1380-4. 2011..These results point to the existence of a spatiotopic neural representation for eye movement control that adapts in response to saccade error signals... - Meaningful auditory information enhances perception of visual biological motionRoberto Arrighi
Istituto Nazionale di Ottica Applicata INOA, Firenze, Largo E Fermi 6, Italy
J Vis 9:25.1-7. 2009..The advantage of multimodal combination was better than the optimal maximum likelihood prediction... - The role of perceptual learning on modality-specific visual attentional effectsM Chirimuuta
Istituto di Neuroscienze CNR, Via Moruzzi 1, Pisa, Italy
Vision Res 47:60-70. 2007..Given the finding of transference, we discuss the possibility that V4 is a site of plasticity for both stimulus types, and that the separation is due to a luminance-colour separation within this cortical area... - Separate attentional resources for vision and auditionDavid Alais
Istituto di Neuroscience del CNR, Via Moruzzi 1, Pisa 56100, Italy
Proc Biol Sci 273:1339-45. 2006..This has implications for current theories of attention as well as for the use of multi-sensory media for efficient informational transmission... - The "Flash-Lag" effect occurs in audition and cross-modallyDavid Alais
Istituto di Neurofisiologia del Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Via G Moruzzi 1, 56125, Pisa, Italy
Curr Biol 13:59-63. 2003..In addition, when we used spatial motion, we found that the FLE can occur cross-modally. Together, these findings challenge several FLE theories and point to a discrepancy between internal brain timing and external stimulus timing... - The ventriloquist effect results from near-optimal bimodal integrationDavid Alais
Istituto di Neuroscienze del CNR, Pisa, Italy
Curr Biol 14:257-62. 2004..All the results are well explained not by one sense capturing the other, but by a simple model of optimal combination of visual and auditory information... - Vision: the world through picket fencesDavid Burr
Dipartimento di Psicologia, , and Istituto di Neuroscienze del CNR, Via Moruzzi 1, Pisa 56100, Italy
Curr Biol 14:R381-2. 2004..This problem is solved by cells tuned in both space and time, combining information about form with information about motion... - Saccadic compression can improve detection of Glass patternsLoredana Santoro
Istituto di Neurofisiologia del CNR, Via Moruzzi 1, Pisa 56010, Italy
Vision Res 42:1361-6. 2002..The results provide further evidence for compression in the direction of the saccade at saccadic onset, and show that it does not only affect the apparent position of visual stimuli, but can also improve performance on a visual task... - Eye movements: building a stable world from glance to glanceDavid Burr
Department of Psychology, University of Florence, Italy
Curr Biol 15:R839-40. 2005..A new study shows that information from successive fixations is combined, not by fusing fixation 'snapshots', but by integrating more complex visual attributes at a mid-high level of analysis... - A feature-based model of symmetry detectionRenata Scognamillo
Scuola Normale Superiore, Piazza dei Cavalieri, Pisa, Italy
Proc Biol Sci 270:1727-33. 2003.... - Time perception: space-time in the brainDavid Burr
Department of Psychology, University of Florence, Italy
Curr Biol 16:R171-3. 2006 - Reduced perceptual sensitivity for biological motion in paraplegia patientsRoberto Arrighi
Curr Biol 21:R910-1. 2011