By Professor Branka Spehar

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, Vol. 37, pp. 38 - 39, http://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000263269900137&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a

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, Vol. 37, pp. 166 - 167, http://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000263269900597&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a

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, http://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000242541400327&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a

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, http://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000226723401057&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a

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, Vol. 29, pp. 35, presented at 23rd European Conference on Visual Perception, Groningen, 27 August 2000 - 31 August 2000, http://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000207910600106&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a

Spehar B, 2000, 'Fraser cords: A new twist', in Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science, Association of Research Vision Ophthalmology Inc, Rockville, MD, USA, Vol. 41, pp. S442, presented at ARVO 2000: Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, 30 April 2000 - 05 May 2000, http://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000086246702340&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a

Spehar B; Clifford C, 1999, 'The role of flicker and motion in the perception of illusory contours', in Perception, Pion Ltd, London, England, Vol. 28, pp. 39, presented at European Conference on Vusual Perception, Trieste, Italy, 22 August 1999 - 26 August 1999, http://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000207910500120&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a

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, Vol. 40, pp. 779, presented at ARVO 1999: Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, 09 May 1999 - 14 May 1999, http://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000079269204108&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a

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, Vol. 40, pp. 779, presented at ARVO 1999: Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, 09 May 1999 - 14 May 1999, http://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000079269204107&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a

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, Vol. 27, pp. 91 - 91, presented at European Conference on Visual Perception, Oxford, England, 24 August 1998 - 28 August 1998, http://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000207910400246&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a

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

Zaidi Q; Spehar B; DeBonet JS, 1996, 'Chromatic adaptation to variegated fields', in Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science, Vol. 37

Spehar B; Zaidi Q, 1996, 'Effects of simple and complex surrounds on temporal contrast sensitivity', in Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science, Vol. 37

Zaidi Q; Spehar B; DeBonet JS, 1996, 'Adaptation to variegated scenes and colour constancy', in PERCEPTION, SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD, Vol. 25, pp. 27 - 27, https://www.webofscience.com/api/gateway?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000207910300075&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a29b250adbe88d1

Spehar B; Debonet JS; Zaidi Q, 1996, 'Erratum: Brightness induction from uniform and complex surrounds: A general model (Vision Research (1996) 36 (1893-1906))', in Vision Research, Vol. 36, pp. 3019, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0042-6989(96)82367-4

ZAIDI Q; DEBONET S; SPEHAR B, 1995, 'DETECTION OF ILLUMINATION CHANGES IN VARIEGATED SCENES', in INVESTIGATIVE OPHTHALMOLOGY & VISUAL SCIENCE, LIPPINCOTT-RAVEN PUBL, Vol. 36, pp. S640 - S640, https://www.webofscience.com/api/gateway?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:A1995QM91502920&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a29b250adbe88d1

GREENSTEIN VC; HOOD DC; ZAIDI Q; SPEHAR B; DEBONET J; CIDECIYAN AV; JACOBSON SG, 1995, 'ENHANCED S-CONE SYNDROME - EVIDENCE FOR RELATIVELY MORE S-CONES THAN L-CONES AND M-CONES', in INVESTIGATIVE OPHTHALMOLOGY & VISUAL SCIENCE, LIPPINCOTT-RAVEN PUBL, Vol. 36, pp. S447 - S447, https://www.webofscience.com/api/gateway?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:A1995QM91502049&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a29b250adbe88d1

SPEHAR B; DEBONET JS; ZAIDI Q, 1995, 'SPATIAL SUMMATION OF BRIGHTNESS INDUCTION', in INVESTIGATIVE OPHTHALMOLOGY & VISUAL SCIENCE, LIPPINCOTT-RAVEN PUBL, Vol. 36, pp. S468 - S468, https://www.webofscience.com/api/gateway?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:A1995QM91502152&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a29b250adbe88d1

SPEHAR B; AREND LE; GILCHRIST AL, 1992, 'WHITE ILLUSION - A NEW LUMINANCE DISTRIBUTION CONSTRAINT', in INVESTIGATIVE OPHTHALMOLOGY & VISUAL SCIENCE, LIPPINCOTT-RAVEN PUBL, Vol. 33, pp. 1260 - 1260, https://www.webofscience.com/api/gateway?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:A1992HK13502830&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a29b250adbe88d1

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