TABLE OF CONTENTS
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Keynote Address
Seiichiro Namba
Psychophysics and its applications - loudness of non-steady state sounds -
Theme Session
Recent attempts and versatile applications of multi-dimensional psychophysics
Tadasu Oyama, and Hisao Miyano
Multi-dimensional state space of perception
Viktor Sarris, Petra Hauf
Relational psychophysics: Multidimensional aspects of comparative perception
Jiro Gyoba
First-order and second-order pattern psychophysics
Michael J. Lyons
Dimensional affect and expression in natural and mediated interaction
Roots of psychophysics: philosophical dimensions and historical backgrounds
Michael Heidelberger
Functional relations and causality in Fechner and Mach
Erik C. Banks
Machian elements and psychophysical relations
Viktor Sarris
Relational psychophysics – major messages from Hermann Ebbinghaus’ and Max Wertheimer’s work
Jiří Wackermann
Psychophysics, or algebra of primary experience?
Perceptual organization in the processing stream
Sergei Gepshtein, Ivan Tyukin, and Michael Kubovy
Why does the proximity principle fail in perception of motion?
Chie Nakatani, and Cees van Leeuwen
Grouping of target sequences for conscious report
Andrey R. Nikolaev, Sergei Gepshtein, Michael Kubovy, and Cees van Leeuwen
Temporal structure of perceptual grouping: EEG analysis
Hironori Nakatani, and Cees van Leeuwen
EEG and eye-events relating to perceptual switching in the Necker cube
Cees van Leeuwen, and Gijs Plomp
Priming asymmetry in visual occlusion patterns
Special Presentation
Tadasu Oyama
Some important scenes in the history of psychophysics in Japan
Spoken Presentations
Thomas S. Aiba, and Hiroshi Takano
Time estimation of composite stimuli
Takatsugu Aihara, Keiichi Kitajo, Daichi Nozaki, and Yoshiharu Yamamoto
Intrinsic noise regulates extrinsic noise-induced sensitisation of visual perception
Mark A. Elliott
Defining perceptual synchrony
Holly E. Gerhard, and Laurence T. Maloney
Detecting illumination changes in three-dimensional scenes
Emi Hasuo, and Yoshitaka Nakajima
Effects of sound marker durations on the perception of inter-onset time intervals
Tsuyoshi Kuroda, Yoshitaka Nakajima, Shuntaro Eguchi, Shimpei Tsunashima, and Tatsuro Yasutake
Effects of relative sound pressure levels of crossing glide components on the occurrence of the gap transfer illusion
Stephen Link
Measuring memory processes the point of subjective equality and the constant error
Sheena Luu, and Willy Wong
Crossmodal enhancement: Investigating the role of timing in audio-visual enhancement
Ewen N. MacDonald, M. Kathy Pichora-Fuller, and Bruce Schneider
Intensity discrimination in noise: Effect of aging
Hidetoshi Nakayasu, Yasuhiro Seya, Masao Nakagawa, and Tetsuya Miyoshi
What does a correlation between human responses to different attributes mean?
Yasuhito Ogasawara, Yoshitaka Ogawa, Yoshimitsu Naga, and Syohei Ishizu
Estimation of quality characteristics in service industries
Marina Pavlova
Visual sensitivity to body motion and social cognition
Elvira Pérez, and Yoshitaka Nakajima
When time perception goes wrong
William M. Petrusic, and Samuel Shaki
Language and instruction dependent SNARC effects in comparative judgements
Bruce A. Schneider
The shape of the underlying distributions in absolute identification experiments
Alexander N. Sokolov, Pietro Guardini, and Marina Pavlova
Priming the primes: Subsequent targets distinctly affect preceding-prime traces acquired with and without awareness
Shigeru Takaoka
Application of psychophysics to the exploration of Minamata disease (methylmercury poisoning), which disturbs sensory cortex
Minoru Tsuzaki, Jóske Nomoto, and Chihiro Takeshima
Auditory stream segregation of vowel sequence depending on size difference: Investigating the coherence boundary and the fission boundary
Gert J. van Tonder, and Yoshio Ohtani
A second order feedback model of visual transduction in cones of the monkey Macaca fascicularis
Lawrence M. Ward, and Sam M. Doesburg
Multimodal brain networks: Integration by synchronization
Teruo Yamasaki, Sonoko Kuwano, and Seiichiro Namba
Impression of overlapping sounds with long decay: Effect of synchronization of onset and interaural level difference
Poster Presentations
Eriko Aiba, Minoru Tsuzaki, Satomi Tanaka, and Masashi Unoki
Judgment of perceptual synchrony between two pulses and its relation to the cochlear delays
Yukyu Araragi, Hiroyuki Ito, and Shoji Sunaga
Filling-in of dots on the blind spot
Alessia Bastianelli, Rossana Actis-Grosso, and Natale Stucchi
The direction of the perceptual displacement of a moving target's starting point: The Fröhlich effect, the backward mislocation and the velocity of motion
Steven R. Carroll, and William M. Petrusic
Numerical distance and anchoring effects in judging confidence
Orlando C. G. Colhado, Débora F. A. Pedrosa, Simone Saltareli, Priscilla Hortense, and Fátima A. Emm Faleiros Sousa
Lumbar pain measurement and evaluation
Kerstin Dittrich, and Daniel Oberfeld
The temporal weighting of annoyance
Hirokazu Doi, and Kazuyuki Shinohara
The global precedence in gaze direction perception
Anna D. Eisler, Hannes Eisler, and Shuji Mori
Cognitive impairment and subjective time in Japanese schizophrenics and nonschizophrenics
Mats P. Englund
Effects of time-order on preference judgments of colors represented by patches, labels, and their combination
Tetsunoshin Fujii, and Yasuhiro Kawabata
The effects of diagnostic color in natural scene recognition
Kohei Fukuoka, Hiroyuki Shimada, and Noriaki Tsutsumi
Interaction of the stroop effect with auditory stimuli
Ana Garriga-Trillo
A psychophysical approach to ageing
Guan Gong, Qiuyu Lin, and Hiroyuki Shimada
The bilingual stroop effect between Japanese and Chinese caused by auditory words in both languages
Simon Grondin, Pierre-Luc Gamache, and Simon Tobin
About the difficulty to transfer temporal learning across sensory modalities
Miguelina Guirao, Ezequiel Greco Drianó, Diego A. Evin, and Eduardo Zunino
The taste of sucrose and citric acid mixed with ethanol: Changes in intensity and duration
Åke Hellström
Temporal asymmetry and “magnet effect” in similarity and discrimination of prototypical and nonprototypical stimuli: Consequences of differential sensation weighting
Souta Hidaka, Shunji Satoh, and Jiro Gyoba
Psychophysical analyses of the size effects of spatial attention on figure–ground assignment
Takahiro Higuchi, Nao Hatano, Koichi Soma, and Kuniyasu Imanaka
Perception of spatial requirements for wheelchair locomotion in experienced users with tetraplegia
R. John Irwin
A psychophysical interpretation of Rasch’s psychometric principle of specific objectivity
Yosuke Ishizaka, Hiroyuki Shimada, and Noriaki Tsutsumi
The effect of the delay between response and presentation of the next trial on transition from algorism to memory retrieval
Masakazu Iwasaka, Takuro Ishii, Takako Uehara, Madoka Shimo, Sachiko Agehara, and Katsuo Sugita
Cerebral blood flow pattern synchronization with time sequences of music
Nobuyuki Jincho, Thomas Lachmann, and Cees van Leeuwen
Dissociating congruence effect in letters versus shapes: The case of kanji and kana in Japanese
Ricardo Kamizaki
A comparison between the preferences of sporting activities: A psychophysical analysis
Yasuhiro Kawabata, Rintaro Nishikawa, and Miho Kawabata
A passive perceptual learning task for primal color modifies difference threshold of middle tone colors
Takahiro Kawabe
Spatiotemporal attribution of visual size
Satoru Kawamura
Central performance drop by non-temporal masking
Eiji Kimura
Stereoscopic modulation of da Vinci stereopsis
Keiichi Kitajo, Takashi Ozaki, and Yoko Yamaguchi
Large-scale neural synchrony associated with top-down selective attentional modulation of Necker cube perception
Maori Kobayashi, and Makio Kashino
The effect of irrelevant sounds on the auditory continuity illusion
Ralf Koether, Bettina Schumacher, Kerstin Scheller, Cees van Leeuwen, and Thomas Lachmann
The relation between speed of visual-auditory integration and general intelligence in dyslexics and normal reading childen
Yuta Kohi, Kazunori Shidoji, Kiyoshi Toko, and Shinichi Etoh
What relationship does color have with desirability in fruits and vegetables?
Diana Eugenie Kornbrot, and Rachel M. Msetfi
The dog that didn’t bark… interpreting non significance
Qiuyu Lin, Guan Gong, and Hiroyuki Shimada
The effect of solution method on skill acquisition: Transition from declarative to procedural memory
Elton H. Matsushima, Fabiana F. G. da Silva, Aline P. A. de Gouveia, Rodrigo R. M. Pinheiro, Nilton P. Ribeiro-Filho, and José A. Da Silva
The psychophysics of visually directed walking
Soyogu Matsushita
RT analysis with the Weibull-Gaussian convolution model
Tetsu Miyaoka, and Toshio Nakamura
Tactile-information-processing mechanisms of fine-surface-texture discrimination
Ryota Miyauchi, Sonoko Kobayashi, Chinatsu Miyauchi, Shushin Noda, Hitoshi Osaka, and Yoshitaka Nakajima
Effect of parallel/opposite frequency movements on perceptual integration of inharmonic components
Friedrich Müller, and Ningya Wang
Effects of introspective vs extraspective instruction in scalings of hedonic properties of flavouring ingredients by Chinese and German subjects
Katsuya Nakatani
Magnitude estimation for the method of limits
Masahiko Ogawa, Kazunori Shidoji, and Yuji Matsuki
Perception of multi-resolution in stereoscopic images
Miguel Oliveira, and Armando Oliveira
An averaging model for the integration of “dread” and probability in self-medication propensity
Tonya S. Pixton
Signal detection analyses of the perception of happiness and angriness in briefly presented faces
Kun Qian, Yuki Yamada, Takahiro Kawabe, and Kayo Miura
The shape of luminance increments at the intersection alters the magnitude of the scintillating grid illusion
Makiko Sadakata, and Peter Desain
Relating perception and production of simple rhythmic patterns - explanation of the regression effect -
Kai Seino, and Shun Ishizaki
Assessment of the conceptual structure that uses association experiments for schizophrenics: Comparing schizophrenic patients with healthy adults who uses the ssociation number of words and between concepts
Yasuhiro Seya, Hidetoshi Nakayasu, and Tetsuya Miyoshi
Visual search strategies during automobile driving
Hiroyuki Shimada, Noriaki Tsutsumi, and Qiuyu Lin
Cue based switching between color-naming and word-reading responses to stroop stimuli: Symmetric interference and complete disappearance of the stroop effect
Atsuya Shinba, Taichi Sayama, Yoshito Nakano, Gert J. van Tonder, and Yoshio Ohtani
A comparison of symmetry salience in computer vs design-expert generated dot patterns
Keizo Shinomori, and Shigeki Nakauchi
Approach to color appearance by color vision deficient observers
Jennifer Stillman
A psychophysical study of the validity of anomaloscopic assessments of colour vision in the blue-green range
Yuika Suzuki, and Jiro Gyoba
Effects of task-irrelevant sounds on the tactile perception of roughness
Satomi Tanaka, Minoru Tsuzaki, Eriko Aiba, and Hiroaki Kato
Timing perception of sequential complex tones connected with glides of a formant frequency
Tadayuki Tayama
The time needed for detecting changes in motion pattern
Nuno de Sá Teixeira, and Armando M. Oliveira
An information integration approach to perception of causality trough continuous behavioural measures
Nuno de Sá Teixeira, and Armando M. Oliveira
The measurement of causal perception through memory displacement: Is all passing a non-causal event?
Noriaki Tsutsumi, Gong Guan, and Hiroyuki Shimada
New experimental paradigm: Reaction to own response with time lag
Kazuo Ueda, and Yoshitaka Nakajima
Critical-band filter analysis of speech sentences
Hiroshi Ushioda, and Yuichi Wada
Multisensory integration between visual and tactile motion information: Evidence from redundant-signals effects on reaction time
Jiří Wackermann, and Werner Ehm
Dual klepsydra model of duration discrimination
Fumiaki Yoshitomi, and Shuji Mori
Study on motion perception in sport scenes using biological motion
Debra A. Zellner, Ke’Nesha Jones, Jennifer Morino, and Scott Parker
Hedonic rarefaction accompanies positive hedonic contrast



Fechner Day 2007