Publications

• Backus, B. T., & Haijiang, Q. (2007). Competition between newly recruited and pre-existing visual cues during the construction of visual appearance. Vision Researh (in press).
• Saunders, J. A., & Backus, B. T. (2007). Both parallelism and orthogonality are used to perceive
  2 3D slant of rectangles 3 from 2D images. Journal of Vision (in press).
• Saunders, J. A., & Backus, B. T. (2006). Perception of surface slant from oriented textures. Journal of Vision, 6, 882-897.
• Saunders, J. A., & Backus, B. T. (2006). The accuracy and reliability of perceived depth from linear perspective as a function of image size. Journal of Vision, 6, 933-954.
• Haijiang, Q., Saunders, J.A., Stone, R.W., & Backus, B.T. (2006). Demonstration of cue recruitment: Change in visual appearance by means of Pavlovian conditioning. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 103: 483-486.
• Duke, P.A., Oruc, I., Qi, H., & Backus, B.T. (2006). Depth aftereffects mediated by vertical disparities: Evidence for vertical disparity driven calibration of extraretinal signals during stereopsis. Vision Research, 46: 228-241.
• Backus, B.T., & Oruç, I. (2005). Illusory motion from change over time in the response to contrast and luminance. Journal of Vision, 5: 1055–1069.
• Zabulis, X., & Backus, B.T. (2004). Starry night: a texture devoid of depth cues. Journal of the Optical Society of America, 21:2049-2060.
• Backus, B. T. & Matza-Brown, D. (2003). The contribution of vergence change to the measurement of relative disparity. Journal of Vision, 3:737-750, http://journalofvision.org/3/11/8/, doi:10.1167/3.11.8.
• Backus, B.T. (2002). Perceptual metamers in sterescopic vision. In Neural information processing systems 14. Ed. T. G. Dietterich, Becker, S., and Ghahramani, Z., MIT Press.
• Banks, M. S., Backus, B. T. and Banks, R. S. (2002). Is vertical disparity used to determine azimuth? Vision Research 42: 801-7.
• Backus, B.T., Fleet, D.J., Parker, A.J., and Heeger, D.J. (2001).  Human cortical activity correlates with stereoscopic depth perception.  Journal of Neurophysiology 86: 2054-68.
• Backus, B.T. (2000).   Stereoscopic vision: What’s the first step? (Dispatch).  Current Biology, 10: R701-R703.
• Ress, D., Backus, B.T., and Heeger, D.J. (2000).  Activity in primary visual cortex predicts performance in a visual detection task. Nature Neuroscience, 3: 940–945.
• Wandell, B.A., Chial, S., and Backus, B.T. (2000). Visualization and Measurement of the Cortical Surface. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 12: 739-752.
• Backus, B.T., and Banks, M.S. (1999). Estimator reliability and distance scaling in stereoscopic slant perception.  Perception, 28: 217-242.
• Backus, B.T., Banks, M.S., van Ee, R., and Crowell, J.A. (1999).  Horizontal and vertical disparity, eye position, and stereoscopic slant perception.  Vision Research, 39: 1143-1170.
• van Ee, R., Bank, M.S., and Backus, B.T. (1999).  An analysis of binocular slant contrast.  Perception, 28: 1121-1145.
• van Ee, R., Banks, M.S., and Backus, B.T. (1999).  Perceived visual direction near an occluder.  Vision Research, 39: 4085-4097.
• Banks, M.S., and Backus, B.T. (1999).  Horizontal and vertical disparity, and eye position, in stereoscopic slant perception.  Chapter 3 in Vision and Action.  L.R. Harris and M. Jenkin, Eds.  Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press.
• Banks, M.S., and Backus, B.T. (1998).  Extra-retinal and perspective cues cause the small range of the induced effect.  Vision Research, 38:187-94.
• Banks, M.S., van Ee, R., and Backus, B.T.  (1997).  The computation of visual direction: A re-examination of Mansfield and Legge (1996). Vision Research, 37:1605-13.
• Banks, M.S., Ehrlich, S.M., Backus, B.T., and Crowell, J.A. (1996).  Estimating heading during real and simulated eye movements.  Vision Research,  36: 431-444.
• Backus, B.T. (1996).  Uses of dynamic geometry software for teaching and research in optometry and vision science.  Chapter in Geometry Turned On: Dynamic Geometry, Theory and Application. James King, Ed.  New York: Mathematical Association of America.

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