Timing in temporal tracking

Perception of a visual stimulus in a selective attention paradigm

Visual Perception of Spatial Order

Influence of eye movements on visual perception

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Determinants of temporal pattern perception

Rhythms differ in how well they can be remembered and reproduced. The cen-tral thesis of this dissertation is that people use a mental time scale to structure rhythms. A mental time scale can be thought of as a sequence of beats separated by equal time intervals. It is used to break a rhythm down into smaller parts which can be coded further. In...

Orientation to gravity: oculomotor and perceptual response in man

In our daily lives, the omnipresent force of gravity helps the perceptual system to integrate egocentric information arising in the eyes, head, and body into an exocentric frame of reference. With the otolith organs in our inner ear, we possess a sensory system that is specialized to detect gravity. The situations considered in this thesis make...

Recalibration of auditory phoneme perception by lipread and lexical information

In a natural environment, many events have perceptual consequences in more than one modality. For example, when we hear someone speaking, there is not only auditory information about what is said, but also visual information about where the sound comes from, and phonetic information that can be lipread. It is known that our perceptual system...

Tactile displays for navigation and orientation: Perception and behaviour

Perceiving and understanding information of, for example, a visual navigation display may be difficult for people with a visual challenge or in situations where the user's visual sense and cognitive resources are heavily loaded. Developing information presentation schemes that reduce the threat of overloading eyes and mind becomes increasingly...

Seeing Signs: On the appearance of manual movements in gestures

This dissertation presents the results of a series of studies on the appearance of manual movements in gestures. The main goal of this research is to increase our understanding of how humans perceive signs and other gestures. Generated insights from human perception may aid the development of technology for recognizing gestures and sign language...