By Professor Branka Spehar

Journal articles

Spehar B; De Bonet JS; Zaidi Q, 1995, 'Brightness induction from complex surrounds', PERCEPTION, 24, pp. 37 - 37, https://www.webofscience.com/api/gateway?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000207910100112&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a29b250adbe88d1

Zaidi Q; De Bonet JS; Spehar B, 1995, 'Detection of illumination changes in variegated scenes', PERCEPTION, 24, pp. 12 - 12, https://www.webofscience.com/api/gateway?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000207910100036&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a29b250adbe88d1

Spehar B; Gilchrist A; Arend L, 1995, 'The critical role of relative luminance relations in White's effect and grating induction', Vision Research, 35, pp. 2603 - 2614, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0042-6989(95)00005-K

SPEHAR B; AGOSTINI T; GILCHRIST A, 1994, 'WHEN IS SURFACE LIGHTNESS MATCHED IN TERMS OF ABSOLUTE LUMINANCE VERSUS RELATIVE LUMINANCE', INVESTIGATIVE OPHTHALMOLOGY & VISUAL SCIENCE, 35, pp. 2166 - 2166, https://www.webofscience.com/api/gateway?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:A1994MZ58504205&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a29b250adbe88d1

Arend LE; Spehar B, 1993, 'Lightness, brightness, and brightness contrast: 1. Illuminance variation', Perception & Psychophysics, 54, pp. 446 - 456, http://dx.doi.org/10.3758/BF03211767

Arend LE; Spehar B, 1993, 'Lightness, brightness, and brightness contrast: 2. Reflectance variation', Perception & Psychophysics, 54, pp. 457 - 468, http://dx.doi.org/10.3758/BF03211768

Conference Papers

Taylor RP; Spehar B; Clifford CWG; Newell BR, 2002, 'The visual complexity of Pollock's dripped fractals', in Minai A; BarYam Y (ed.), UNIFYING THEMES IN COMPLEX SYSTEMS IV, SPRINGER-VERLAG BERLIN, MA, New England Complex Syst Inst, Boston, pp. 175 - +, presented at 4th International Conference on Complex Systems, MA, New England Complex Syst Inst, Boston, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-73849-7_20

Zaidi Q; DeBonet JS; Spehar B, 1995, 'Perceived Grey-levels in complex configurations', in Proceedings of the Color Imaging Conference: Color Science, Systems, and Applications, pp. 14 - 17

Spehar B; Arend LE, 1991, 'Perceptual factors in contrast contrast', in Optical Society of America Annual Meeting, Optica Publishing Group, pp. WL33 - WL33, presented at OSA Annual Meeting, http://dx.doi.org/10.1364/oam.1991.wl33

Conference Presentations

Spehar B; Owens C, 2004, 'Attentional capture during the attentional blink'

Cass JR; Spehar B, 2004, 'Dynamics of contrast facilitation are consistent with long-range horizontal striate mediation'

Cass JR; Spehar B, 2004, 'Spatiotemporal dynamics of coaxial and parallel contrast facilitation suggest distinct mechanisms'

Clifford CWG; Spehar B, 2003, 'Using colour to disambiguate contrast and assimilation in White's effect', http://dx.doi.org/10.1167/3.9.294

Spehar B; Clifford CWG, 2003, 'Contrast and assimilation in White's Effect', https://www.webofscience.com/api/gateway?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000186983200403&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a29b250adbe88d1

Spehar B, 2003, 'Perceptual completion of image fragments', https://www.webofscience.com/api/gateway?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000185259600329&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a29b250adbe88d1

Spehar B; Parry L, 2002, 'The role of modal and amodal completion in object perception', https://www.webofscience.com/api/gateway?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000175842100084&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a29b250adbe88d1

Spehar B; Blackburn S; Gillam B, 1997, 'Local and global constraints on illusory contour formation: The role of T-junctions.', https://www.webofscience.com/api/gateway?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:A1997WN21501493&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a29b250adbe88d1

Conference Abstracts

Spehar B, 2019, 'Accounting for Taste: Why Do Individuals Differ in Their Visual Preference?', in PERCEPTION, SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD, Vol. 48, pp. 13 - 14, https://www.webofscience.com/api/gateway?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000486182000039&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a29b250adbe88d1

Estrada-Gonzalez V; Spehar B; Garbutt M; East S, 2019, 'Salience: A Comparative Study of the Experience of Visual Art in the Laboratory and the Art Museum', in I-PERCEPTION, SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD, Vol. 10, pp. 172 - 173, https://www.webofscience.com/api/gateway?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000490535400329&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a29b250adbe88d1

Nguyen LYD; Isherwood Z; Spehar B, 2019, 'The Geometric, Not Photometric Structure of Synthetic Images Determines Discrimination Sensitivity, Perceived Similarity and Visual Preferences', in I-PERCEPTION, SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD, Vol. 10, pp. 167 - 168, https://www.webofscience.com/api/gateway?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000490535400319&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a29b250adbe88d1

Isherwood ZJ; Clifford CWG; Schira MM; Spehar B, 2019, 'The Tuning of Early Visual Cortex to the Fractal Structure of Natural Scenes', in I-PERCEPTION, SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD, Vol. 10, pp. 126 - 127, https://www.webofscience.com/api/gateway?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000490535400240&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a29b250adbe88d1

Viengkham C; Spehar B, 2019, 'Consistency in Preference for Fractal-Scaling Properties Across Synthetic Noise Images and Artworks', in PERCEPTION, SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD, Vol. 48, pp. 25 - 25, https://www.webofscience.com/api/gateway?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000468288300091&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a29b250adbe88d1

Kimchi R; Yeshurun Y; Spehar B, 2015, 'Perceptual Organization and Visual Attention: Attentional Capture by Objecthood', in PERCEPTION, SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD, Vol. 44, pp. 194 - 194, https://www.webofscience.com/api/gateway?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000362287800386&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a29b250adbe88d1

Otsuka Y; Ichikawa H; Kanazawa S; Yamaguchi MK; Spehar B, 2014, 'Temporal dynamics of spatial frequency processing for objects and faces in infants', in I-PERCEPTION, PION LTD, Vol. 5, pp. 461 - 461, https://www.webofscience.com/api/gateway?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000342373600258&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a29b250adbe88d1

Isherwood ZJ; Schira MM; Spehar B, 2014, 'The BOLD and the Beautiful: Neural responses to natural scene statistics in early visual cortex', in I-PERCEPTION, PION LTD, Vol. 5, pp. 345 - 345, https://www.webofscience.com/api/gateway?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000342373600142&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a29b250adbe88d1

Spehar B; Vu L, 2012, 'When perceived global shape is different from the sum of its parts', in PERCEPTION, PION LTD, Vol. 41, pp. 33 - 33, https://www.webofscience.com/api/gateway?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000208912500105&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a29b250adbe88d1

Spehar B, 2011, 'Beauty and the beholder: A sensitive relationship', in I-PERCEPTION, PION LTD, Vol. 2, pp. 285 - 285, https://www.webofscience.com/api/gateway?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000208941600083&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a29b250adbe88d1

Spehar B; Taylor R, 2011, 'Beauty and the beholder: The role of spatial structure in visual preference', in PERCEPTION, PION LTD, Vol. 40, pp. 122 - 123, https://www.webofscience.com/api/gateway?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000289181900067&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a29b250adbe88d1

Otsuka Y; Hill H; Kanazawa S; Yamaguchi MK; Spehar B, 2010, 'Perception of Mooney face by 3-and 4-month-old infants: the role of local features, contrast polarity, and motion', in PERCEPTION, PION LTD, Vol. 39, pp. 129 - 129, https://www.webofscience.com/api/gateway?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000289740100393&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a29b250adbe88d1

Schira MM; Spehar B, 2009, 'Contrast polarity reversals in L-junctions: Disrupting basic 'corner' processing?', in PERCEPTION, PION LTD, Vol. 38, pp. 124 - 124, https://www.webofscience.com/api/gateway?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000207905000401&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a29b250adbe88d1

Mcdonald JS; Seymour KJ; Schira MM; Spehar B; Clifford CWG, 2008, 'Orientation-specific contextual modulation of the fMRI BOLD response to luminance and chromatic gratings in human visual cortex', in PERCEPTION, SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD, Vol. 37, pp. 20 - 20, https://www.webofscience.com/api/gateway?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000263269900071&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a29b250adbe88d1

Spehar B, 2008, 'Lightness induction in complex configurations: assimilation, contrast or contrast-contrast', in Perception, Pion Ltd, London, England, pp. 38 - 39

Schira M; Tyler C; Spehar B, 2008, 'The organisation of the foveal confluence in human revealed by high resolution fMRI', in Perception, Pion Ltd, London, England, pp. 166 - 167

Spehar B; Clifford CW; Seymour K; Kourtzi Z, 2006, 'The role of the lateral occipital complex (LOC) in perception of illusory contours', in Australian Journal of Psychology, Taylor and Francis, Vol. 58, pp. 91 - 91

Owens C; Siegel JB; Spehar B, 2004, 'Top-down task-sets are sufficient but not necessary for visual attentional capture to occur', in Australian Journal of Psychology, Taylor and Francis, Vol. 56, pp. 130 - 131

Clifford CWG; Spehar B; Solomon SG; Martin PR; Zaidi Q, 2002, 'Colour-luminance interactions in human orientation perception', in Journal of Vision, Vol. 2, http://dx.doi.org/10.1167/2.7.215

Spehar B; Parry I; Clifford CWG, 2002, 'Dynamics of modal and amodal completion', in PERCEPTION, PION LTD, Vol. 31, pp. 152 - 152, https://www.webofscience.com/api/gateway?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000178055500468&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a29b250adbe88d1

Spehar B; Clifford CWG; Johnston A, 2002, 'The role of oriented filters and T-junctions in White's effect', in Journal of Vision, Vol. 2, http://dx.doi.org/10.1167/2.7.555

Spehar B, 2001, 'Brightness Induction in Complex Figural Surrounds: Classical and Inerted White`s Effects Reconsidered', in Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science, Association of Research Vision Ophthalmology Inc, Rockville, MD, USA, pp. 551 - 551, presented at ARVO 2001: Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, 29 April 2001 - 04 May 2001

Spehar B; Clifford CWG; Agostini T, 2001, 'Brightness induction in complex figural surrounds: Classical and inverted Whites effects reconsidered.', in INVESTIGATIVE OPHTHALMOLOGY & VISUAL SCIENCE, ASSOC RESEARCH VISION OPHTHALMOLOGY INC, Vol. 42, pp. S51 - S51, https://www.webofscience.com/api/gateway?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000168392100275&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a29b250adbe88d1

Spehar B; Zaidi Q, 2000, 'The crispening effect in luminance and color', in Perception, Pion Ltd, London, England, pp. 35, presented at 23rd European Conference on Visual Perception, Groningen, 27 August 2000 - 31 August 2000

Spehar B, 2000, 'Fraser cords: A new twist', in Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science, Association of Research Vision Ophthalmology Inc, Rockville, MD, USA, pp. S442, presented at ARVO 2000: Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, 30 April 2000 - 05 May 2000

Spehar B; Clifford C, 1999, 'The role of flicker and motion in the perception of illusory contours', in Perception, Pion Ltd, London, England, pp. 39, presented at European Conference on Vusual Perception, Trieste, Italy, 22 August 1999 - 26 August 1999

Gillam BJ; Proudfoot H; Spehar B, 1999, 'The relationship between figure-ground perception and subjective contours', in Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science, Association of Research Vision Ophthalmology Inc, Rockville, MD, USA, pp. 779, presented at ARVO 1999: Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, 09 May 1999 - 14 May 1999

Spehar B, 1999, 'The role of contrast polarity in illusory contour formation', in Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science, Association of Research Vision Ophthalmology Inc, Rockville, MD, USA, pp. 779, presented at ARVO 1999: Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, 09 May 1999 - 14 May 1999

Spehar B, 1999, 'Inducers` non-uniformity and illusory contour formation', in Australian Journal of Psychology, Taylor and Francis, Sydney, pp. Vol.51, presented at 26th Annual Experimental Psychology Conference, Sydney, 09 April 1999 - 11 April 1999

Spehar B; Gillam BJ, 1998, 'Modal and amodal completion in the Poggendorff illusion.', in Perception, Pion Ltd, London, England, pp. 91 - 91, presented at European Conference on Visual Perception, Oxford, England, 24 August 1998 - 28 August 1998

Spehar B; Blackburn SG; Gillam BJ, 1997, 'Local and global constraints on illusory contour formation: The role of T-junctions', in Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science, Association of Research Vision Ophthalmology Inc, Rockville, MD, USA, pp. 1004 - 1004, presented at ARVO 1997: Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, 11 May 1997 - 16 May 1997

Spehar B, 1997, 'The role of T-junctions in illusory contour formation', in Australian Journal of Psychology, Taylor and Francis, Geelong, Victoria, pp. 23 - 23, presented at 24th Annual Experimental Psychology Conference, Geelong, Victoria, 03 April 1997 - 05 April 1997

Spehar B; Debonet JS; Zaidi Q, 1996, 'Brightness induction from uniform and complex surrounds: A general model (vol 36, pg 1893, 1996)', in VISION RESEARCH, PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD, Vol. 36, pp. 3019 - 3019, https://www.webofscience.com/api/gateway?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:A1996VK58400020&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a29b250adbe88d1

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