Refereed Publications

A purely temporal transparency mechanism in the visual system. Holcombe, A.O. Perception, in press. (demo)

Early binding of feature pairs for visual perception. Holcombe, A.O., Cavanagh, P. (2001). Nature Neuroscience, 4(2), 127-128. (pdf) (abstract and supplemental info)

Tracking an object through feature-space. Blaser, E., Pylyshyn, Z., & Holcombe, A.O. (2000). Nature, 408, pp.196-199.

The midstream order deficit. Holcombe, A.O., Kanwisher, N. , & Treisman, A. (2001). Perception & Psychophysics, 63(2): 322-9. (demo)

The spoke brightness illusion originates at an early motion processing stage. Holcombe, A.O., Intriligator, J., & Tse, P.U. (2000). Perception & Psychophysics, 62(8), 1619-1624. (pdf)

Wakes and spokes: New motion-induced brightness illusions. Holcombe, A. O., Macknik, S., Intriligator, J., Seiffert, A.E., Tse, P.U. (1999). Perception , 28(10), 1231-1242. (abstract) (pdf) (demo)

On the lawfulness of grouping by proximity. Kubovy, M. Holcombe, A.O., & Wagemans, J. (1998). Cognitive Psychology, 35(1), 71-98.

Abstracts / Conference Presentations

Rapid alternation of images reveals a novel transparency mechanism in the visual system. Holcombe, A.O. Third International Conference on Cognitive Science, Beijing, China , 2001.

Rapid image alternation reveals a novel transparency mechanism in the visual system. Holcombe, A.O. 8th Joint Symposium on Neural Computation, La Jolla, CA, 2001.

Demonstration that parts of a natural image displaced in time can be perceptually synchronized. Eagleman, D., & Holcombe, A.O., & Sejnowski, T.J. 8th Joint Symposium on Neural Computation, La Jolla, CA, 2001.

Rapid image alternation: A new route to transparency. Holcombe, A.O. Journal of Vision (Vision Sciences Society) , to appear. (pdf)

A high-speed process for pairing features that is space-based, not object-based. Holcombe, A.O., & Cavanagh, P. Association for Research in Vision and Opthalmology Annual Meeting, 2000.

Tracking ambiguous motion enables fast attentional shifts. Horowitz, T.S., Holcombe, A.O., Alvarez, G.A., & Wolfe, J.M. Association for Research in Vision and Opthalmology Annual Meeting, 2000.

With two objects at one location, attention is 'object-based'. Blaser, E., Pylyshyn, Z.W., & Holcombe, A.O.. Association for Research in Vision and Opthalmology Annual Meeting, 2000.

The temporal resolution of visual feature binding. Holcombe, A.O., & Cavanagh, P. The 7th Annual Workshop on Object Perception and Memory, 1999.

The temporal resolution of visual feature binding. Holcombe, A.O., & Cavanagh, P. Third Annual Vision Research Conference, 1999.

The temporal resolution of binding. Holcombe, A.O., & Cavanagh, P. Annual Meeting of the Eastern Psychological Association, 1999.

Wakes: A new motion-induced brightness illusion. Holcombe, A.O., Tse, P., Macknik, S., Seiffert, A.E., & Intriligator, J. Association for Research in Vision and Opthalmology Annual Meeting, 1998.

The Scrambled Stream Effect. Holcombe, A.O., Kanwisher, N., & Treisman, A. Annual Meeting of the Eastern Psychological Association, 1998.

The Scrambled Stream Effect and the Importance of a Subjective Sequence Beginning for Serial Order Memory. Holcombe, A.O. & Kanwisher, N. International Conference on Short-term Memory, 1998.

The Scrambled Stream Effect: A Difficulty in Perceiving Temporal Order in Multiply-presented Sequences. Holcombe, A.O. & Kanwisher, N. Association for Research in Vision and Opthalmology Annual Meeting, 1997.

Modeling the Perceptual Organization of Dot Lattices. Kubovy, M. & Holcombe, A.O. Investigative Opthalmology & Visual Science, 36(4), 1995.