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Aaen-Stockdale, C.R., Thompson, B., Huang, P.-C. & Hess, R.F. (2009). Low level mechanisms may contribute to paradoxical motion percepts. J. Vision, 9(5):9, 1-14. http://journalofvision.org/9/5/9/, doi:10.1167/9.5.9. PDF
Hess, R. F., Thompson, B Gole, G and Mullen, K. T. (2009). Deficient responses from the lateral geniculate nucleus in humans with amblyopia. European J. Neuroscience, 29(5) 1064-1070. PDF
Hess, R. F., Huang, P-C., & Maehara, G. (2009). Spatial distortions produced by purely binocularly-based visual motion. Perception, 38(7), 1012-1018. PDF
Hess, R.F., Mansouri, B., Thompson, B. & Gheorghiu, E. (2009). Latent stereopsis for motion-in-depth in strabismic amblyopia. Invest. Ophthalmol. & Vis. Sci. 50, 5006-5016. PDF
Hess, R.F. , Li, Xingfeng, Mansouri, B., Thompson, B. & Hansen, B..C. (2009). Selectivity as well as sensitivity loss characterizes the cortical spatial frequency deficit in amblyopia. Human Brain Mapping 30 Issue 12, 4054 – 4069. PDF
Maehara, G., Huang, P-C., & Hess, R. F. (2009. Importance of phase alignment for interocular suppression. Vision Research, 49(14), 1838-47. PDF
Mansouri, B., Hansen B.C. & Hess, Robert. F. (2009). Disrupted retinotopic maps in amblyopia. Invest. Ophthalmol. Vis. Sci. 50, 3218-3225. PDF
Thompson, B, Aaen-Stockdale, C, Koski, L and Hess, R.F. (2009). A double dissociation between striate and extrastriate visual cortex for pattern motion perception revealed using rTMS. Human Brain Mapping, 30, 3115-3126. PDF
Aaen-Stockdale, C.R., Thompson, B., Hess, R.F. & Troje, N.F. (2008). Biological motion perception is cue-invariant. J. Vision 8(8)(6), 1-11. PDF
Aaen-Stockdale, C.R. & Hess, R.F. (2008). The amblyopic deficit for global motion is spatial scale invariant. Visual Research, 48(19) 1965-1971. PDF
Baker, D.H., Meese, T.S. & Hess, R.F. (2008). Contrast masking in strabismic amblyopia: attenuation, noise, interocular suppression and binocular summation. Vision Research, 48(15) 1625-1640. PDF
Dumoulin S.O., Dakin S.C., & Hess R.F. (2008). Sparsely distributed contours dominate extra-striate response to complex scenes. NeuroImage, 42(2) 890-901. PDF
Hansen, B.C., Farivar, R., Thompson, B. & Hess, R.F. (2008). A critical band of phase alignment for discrimination but not recognition of human faces. Vision Res. 48(25) 2523-36. PDF
Hess, R. F. Baker, D. H, May K. A and Wang, J. (2008). On the decline of 1st and 2nd order sensitivity with eccentricity. J. Vision 8(1), 1-12. PDF
Hess, R. F. and Wilcox, L. M. (2008). The transient nature of 2nd order stereopsis. Vision Research, 48, 1327-1334. PDF
Hess, R.F. & Aaen-Stockdale, C.R. (2008). Global motion processing: the effect of spatial scale and eccentricity. J. Vision 8(4):11, 1-11. PDF
Huang, P-C and Hess, R. F. (2008). The dynamics of collinear facilitation: fast but sustained. Vision Research, 48, no27, pp. 2715-2722. PDF
Mansouri, B., Thompson, B. and Hess, R.F. (2008). Measurement of suprathreshold binocular interactions in amblyopia. Vision Research, 48, (28), 2775-2784. PDF
May, K. A., & Hess, R. F. (2008). Effects of element separation and carrier wavelength on detection of snakes and ladders: Implications for models of contour integration. Journal of Vision, 8(13):4, 1-23, http://journalofvision.org/8/13/4/, doi:10.1167/8.13.4. PDF
Mullen, K. T. Dumoulin, S. and Hess, R. F. (2008). Color responses of the human LGN: selective amplification of S-cone signals between the LGN and primary visual cortex measured with high-field fMRI. J Neuroscience, 2008, vol. 28, (9)1911-1923. PDF
Thompson, B., Hansen, B.C., Hess, R.F. and Troje, N.F. (2008). Amblyopic perception of biological motion. J. Vision. 8(4)(22), 1-14. PDF
Thompson, B., Aaen-Stockdale, C. Mansouri, B. & Hess, R.F. (2008). Plaid perception is only subtly impaired in amblyopia. Vision Research, 48(11), 1307-1314. PDF
Thompson, B., Mansouri, B. Koski, L. and Hess, R.F. (2008). Brain plasticity in the adult: restoration of function in amblyopia using rTMS. Current Biology, 18, 1067-1071. PDF
Thompson, B., Farivar, R., Hansen, B.C. & Hess, R.F. (2008). A dichopic projection system for visual psychophysics in fMRI scanners. J. Neuroscience Methods, 168, 71-75. PDF
Aaen-Stockdale, C., Ledgeway, T. & Hess, R.F. (2007a). Second-order optic flow processing. Vision Research, 47, 1798-1808. PDF
Aaen-Stockdale, C.R., Ledgeway, T. & Hess, R.F. (2007b) Second-order optic flow deficits in amblyopia. Invest. Ophthal . & Vis. Sci., 48(12), 5532-5538. PDF
Baker, D.H. , Meese, T.S., Mansouri, B. & Hess, R.F. (2007). Binocular summation of contrast remains intact in strabismic amblyopia. Invest. Ophthalmol. & Vis. Sci. 48, 5332-5338. PDF
Dumoulin, S.O. & Hess, R.F. (2007). Cortical specialization for concentric shape processing. Vision Research, 47, 1608-1613. PDF
Hansen, B.C. & Hess, R.F. (2007). Structural sparseness and spatial phase alignment in natural scenes. J. Opt. Soc. Am. A. 24, 1873-1885. PDF
Hess, R.F., Hutchinson, C.V., Ledgeway, T. & Mansouri, B. (2007). Binocular influences on global motion processing in the human visual system. Vision Research, 47, 1682-1692. PDF
Huang, P.-C., & Hess, R. F. (2007). Collinear facilitation: Effect of additive and multiplicative external noise. Vision Research 47, 3108-3119. PDF
Huang, P.-C., Mullen, K.T. & Hess, R. F. (2007). Collinear facilitation in color vision. J. Vision, 7(11), 1-14. PDF
Li, X.. -F., Dumoulin, S.O., Mansouri, B., & Hess, R.F. (2007). The fidelity of the cortical retinotopic map in human amblyopia.. European Journal of Neuroscience 25, 1265-1277. PDF
Li, X.-F., Dumoulin, S.O., Mansouri, B., & Hess, R.F. (2007). Cortical deficits in human amblyopia: their regional distribution and their relationship to the contrast detection deficit. Invest. Ophthalmol. & Vis. Sci. 48, 1575-1591. PDF
May, K.A. & Hess, R.F. (2007a). Dynamics of snakes and ladders. J. Vision 7(12), 1-9. PDF
May, K.A. & Hess. R.F. (2007b). Ladder contours are undetectable in the periphery: a crowding effect? J. Vision 7(13), 1-15. PDF
Mullen, K.T., Dumoulin, S.O., McMahon, K.L., de Zubicarary, G.I. & Hess, R.F. (2007). R.F. Sensitivity of human retinotopic visual cortex to red-green, blue-yellow and achromatic contrast. European J. of Neuroscience, 25, 491-502. PDF
Mansouri, B., Hess, R.F. & Allen, H.A. (2007). Orientation variance discrimination in amblyopia. J. Opt. Soc. Am. A. 24, 2499-2504. PDF
Mullen, K.T., Dumoulin, S.O., McMahon, K.L., de Zubicarary, G.I. & Hess, R.F. (2007). Sensitivity of human retinotopic visual cortex to red-green, blue-yellow and achromatic contrast. European J. Neuroscience, 25, 491-502. PDF
Thompson, B., Hansen, B.C., Hess, R.F. & Troje, N.F. (2007). Peripheral
vision: Good for biological motion, bad for signal noise segregation? J.
Vision, 7(10), 1-7. PDF
Dumoulin, S.O, & Hess, RF (2006). Modulation of V1 activity
by
shape: image-statistics or shape-based perception? J.
Neurophysiol. 95(6): 3654-3664. PDF
Ellemberg, D., Allen, H. & Hess, R.F. (2006). Second-order
spatial frequency and orientation channels in human vision.
Vision Res. 46, 2798-2803. PDF
Hansen, B.C. & Hess, R.F. (2006a). The role of spatial phase in
texture segmentation and contour integration. J. Vision, 6, 594-615. PDF
Hansen, B.C. & Hess, R.F. (2006b). Discrimination of
amplitude
spectrum slope in the fovea and parafovea and the local amplitude
distributions of natural scene imagery. J.Vision, 6, 696-711. PDF
Hess, R. F., Mansouri, B. Dakin, S. C. & Allen, H. (2006).
Integration of local motion is normal in amblyopia. J. Opt. Soc. Am.A.
23 (5) 1-8. PDF
Hess, R.F., Schmid, K.L., Dumoulin, S.O., Field, D.J. & Brinkworth,
D.R. (2006). What image properties regulate eye growth?
Current Biology 16, 687-691.
PDF
Hess, R. F. Wang, Y-Z & Liu, C-H (2006). Accessibility of
spatial
channels for stereo and motion. Vision Res. 46, 1318-1326. PDF
Hess, R.F. & Wilcox, L.M. (2006). Stereo dynamics
are
not scale dependent. Vision Res. 46, 1911-1923. PDF
Huang P.C. , Hess, R. F. & Dakin, S. C. (2006).
Flank
facilitation and contour integration: Different sites.
Vision
Res. 46, 3699-706. PDF
Huang, P.-C., Kingdom, F. A. A. & Hess, R. F. (2006). Only
two
phase mechanisms, ±cosine, in human vision. Vision Res.
46(13):2069-2081. PDF
Ledgeway, T. & Hess, R. F. (2006). The spatial frequency
and
orientation selectivity of mechanisms that extract motion-defined
contours. Vision Res. 46, 568-578. PDF
Mansouri, B. & Hess, R.F. (2006). The global processing
deficit in amblyopia involves noise segregation. Vision Res. 46,
4104-4117. PDF
Schmid, K. L. Brinkworth, D. R. Wallace, K. M. & Hess, R. F.
(2006).
The effect of manipulations to target contrast on emmetropization in
chick. Vision Res. 46, 1099-1107. PDF
Simmers, A.J., Ledgeway, T., Mansouri, B., Hutchinson, C.V. &
Hess, R.F. (2006). The extent of the dorsal extra-striate deficit
in amblyopia. Vision Res. 46, 2571-2580. PDF
Constantinescu, T., Schmidt, L., Watson, R. & Hess, R.F.
(2005). A residual deficit for global motion processing after
acuity recovery in deprivation amblyopia. Invest. Ophthalmol.
Vis. Sci. 46, 3008-03012. PDF
Ehrt, O. & Hess, R.F., (2005). Foveal contour interaction:
detection and discrimination. J. Opt. Soc. Am.A. 22(2), 209-216. PDF
Gingras, G., Mitchell, D.E, & Hess, R.F. (2005a). The spatial
localization deficit in visually deprived kittens. Vision Res.
45, 975-989. PDF
Gingras, G., Mitchell, D.E, & Hess, R.F. (2005b). Haphazard
neural
connections underlie the visual deficits of cats with strabismic or
deprivation amblyopia. European J. Neuroscience, 22, 119-124. PDF
Mansouri, B., Hess, R.F., Allen, H.A. & Dakin S.C. (2005).
Integration, segration and binocular combination. J. Opti. Soc.
Am.A. 22(1), 38-48. PDF
Meese, T. S. & Hess, R. F. (2005). Interocular
suppression is
gated by interocular feature matching. Vision Res. 45, 9-15. PDF
Simmers, A.J., Ledgeway, T., Hess, R.F. & McGraw, P.V.
(2005). The
influences of visibility and anomalous integration processes on the
perception of global spatial form versus motion in human amblyopia.
Vision Res. 45, 449-460. PDF
Wang, Y.-Z., & Hess R.F. (2005). Contributions of local
orientation and position features to shape integration. Vision
Res. 45, 1375-1383. PDF
Allen, H. A., Ledgeway, T. & Hess, R. F. (2004). Poor
encoding of
position by contrast-defined motion. Vision Res. 44, 1985-1999. PDF
Ellemberg, D, Allen, H. A. & Hess, R F (2004). Lateral
contrast
interactions for first- and second-order stimuli. Vision Res. 44,
1787-1794. PDF
Mansouri, B , Allen, H.A, Hess, R.F., Dakin, S. & Ehrt, O.
(2004). Integration
of orientation information in amblyopia. . Vision Res. 44,
2955-2969. PDF
Meese, T. S. & Hess, R. F. (2004). Low spatial frequencies
are
suppressively masked across spatial scale, orientation, field position,
and eye of origin. J.Vision, 4, 843-859. PDF
Achtman, R., Hess, R. F. & Wang, Y-Z (2003).
Sensitivity to
global form. J. Vision 3(10), 616-624. PDF
Allen, H.A, Hess, R.F., Mansouri, B. & Dakin, S. (2003).
Integration
of first and second-order orientation. J. Opt. Soc. Am. A. 20,
974-986. PDF
Dumoulin, S.O., Baker, Jr., C.L., Hess, R.F. & Evans, A.C.
(2003).
Cortical specialization for processing first-and second-order
motion. Cerebral Cortex. 13(12), 1327-1385. PDF
Dumoulin, S.O., Hoge, R.D., Baker Jr., Curtis L., Hess, R.F., Achtman,
I. & Evans, A.C. (2003). Automatic volumetric
segmentation of human visual retinotopic cortex. NeuroImage, 18,
576-587. PDF
Ehrt, O., Hess, R.F., Williams, C.B. & Sher, K. (2003).
Foveal contrast thresholds exhibit spatial-frequency- and
polarity-specific contour interactions. J. Opt. Soc. Am. A. 20,
11-17. PDF
Hess, R.F., Barnes, G., Dumoulin, S.O. & Dakin, S.C.
(2003). How
many positions can we perceptually encode, one or many? Vision
Res. 43, 1575-1587. PDF
Hess, R.F., Liu, C.H. & Wang, Y.-Z. (2003).
Differential
binocular input and local stereopsis. Vision Res. 43, 2303-2313. PDF
Hess, R.F & Hayes, A. (2003). Contour Integration and
cortical
processing. J. Physiol. (Paris) 97, 105-119. PDF
Hess, R.F. & Ledgeway (2003). The detection of
direction-defined and speed-defined spatial contours: one mchanism or
two? Vision Res. 43, 597-606. PDF
Hess, R.F. & Malin, S. (2003). Threshold vision in
amblyopia:
orientation and phase. Invest. Ophthal . & Vis. Sci. 44(110),
4762-71. PDF
Hess, R.F., Pointer, J.S., Simmers, A. & Bex, P.
(2003). Border distinctness in amblyopia. Vision Res. 43,
2255-2264. PDF
Simmers, A., Hess, R.F. & Bex, P. (2003). Perceived blur in
amblyopia. Invest. Ophthalmol. Vis. Sci. 44,1395-1400. PDF
Simmers, A.J., Ledgeway, T., Hess, R.F. & McGraw, P.V.
(2003).
Deficits to global motion processing in human amblyopia. Vision Res.
43, 729-738.
Ellemberg, D., Hess, RF., & Arsenault, A.S. (2002).
Lateral interactions in amblyopia, Vision Res. 42, 2471-2478. PDF
Hess R. F.(2002a). Single cells to cellular networks. In
Levels of
Perception,
by L. Harris & M. Jenkins (eds.) Springer -Verlag, New York. pp.
193-210.
Hess, R.F. & Fredericksen, R.E. (2002). Temporal detection
in human vision: dependence on eccentricity. Ophthal. physiol.
Opt.
22, 92-102. PDF
Hess, R.F., Liu, C.H. & Wang, Y.-Z. (2002). Luminance
spatial
scale
and local stereo-sensitivity. Vision Res. 42(3), 331-342. PDF
Ledgeway, T. & Hess, R.F. (2002a). Failure of direction
identification
for briefly presented second-order motion stimuli: evidence for weak
direction
selectivity of the mechanisms encoding motion. Vision Res. 42,
1739-1758. PDF
Ledgeway, T. & Hess, R.F. (2002b). Rules for combining the
outputs
of local motion detectors to define simple contours. Vision Res. 42(5),
653-659. PDF
Scott-Samuel, N.E. & Hess, R.F. (2002). Orientation
sensitivity
in human visual motion processing. Vision Res. 42(5), 613-620. PDF
Barnes, G.R., Hess, R.F., Dumoulin, S.O., Achtman, R.L. and Pike,
G.B
(2001). the cortical deficit in humans with strabismic amblyopia.
J.
Physiol.
533, 281-297. PDF
Dumoulin, S.O., Baker, C.L. Jr., & Hess, R.F. (2001). A
centrifugal
bias for 2nd-order but not 1st-order motion. J. Opt. Soc. Am. A. 18(9)
2179-2189. PDF
Hess, R.F. (2001). Amblyopia: Site Unseen.
Australian
Journal of Experimental Optometry. 84(6), 321-336.
Hess, R.F., Achtman, R.L. & Wang, Y.-Z. (2001). Detection of contrast-defined shape. J. Opt. Soc. Am. A. 18(9) 2220-2227. PDF
Hess, R.F., Beaudot, W.H. and Mullen, K.T.(2001). Dynamics of
contour
integration. Vision Res. 41, 1023-1037. PDF
Hess, R. F., Dakin, S. C., Tewfik, M and Brown, B.(2001).
Contour
interaction
in amblyopia" scale selection. Vision Res. 41, 2285-2296. PDF
Hess, R.F., Williams, C.B. & Chaudhry, A. (2001). Contour
interaction
for an easily resolvable stimulus. J. Opt. Soc. Am. A. 18, 2414-2418. PDF
Kingdom, F.A.A., Ziegler, L.R. & Hess, R.F. (2001).
Luminance
spatial
scale facilitates stereoscopic depth segmentation. J. Opt. Soc. Am. A.
18(5) 993-1002. PDF
Meese, T.S., Hess, R.F. & Williams. C.B. (2001). Spatial
coherence
does not affect contrast discrimination for multiple Gabor
stimuli. Perception,
30, 1411-1422. PDF
Scott-Samuel, N.E. & Hess, R.F. (2001). What does the
Ternus
display
tell us about motion processing in human vision? Perception, 30,
1179-1188. PDF
Achtman, R.L, Hess, R.F. & Wang, Y.-Z. (2000). Regional
sensitivity
for shape discrimination. Spatial Vision 13(4), 377-391. PDF
Field, D.J., Hayes, A. and Hess, R.F. (2000). The role of
polarity
and symmetry in the perceptual grouping of contour fragments.
Spatial
Vision 13, 51-66. PDF
Hess, R.F., Dakin, S.C., Kapoor, N (2000a). The
foveal
'crowding'
effect: physics or physiology?, Vision Res. 40 (4) pp. 365-370. PDF
Hess, R.F., Dakin, S.C., Kapoor, N. & Tewfik, M. (2000b).
Contour
interaction in fovea and periphery. . J. Opt. Soc. Am. A. 17,
1516-1524. PDF
Hess, R.F., Ledgeway, T. & Dakin, S.C. (2000).
Improverished
2nd order input to global linking in human vision. Vision Res.
40,
3309-3318. PDF
Hess, R.F. and Ziegler, L.R. (2000). What limits the
contribution
of second-order motion to the perception of surface shape? Vision
Res. 40, 2125-2133. PDF
Ledgeway, T. & Hess, R.F. (2000). The properties of the
motion-detecting
mechanism mediating perceived direction in stochastic displays.
Vision
Res. 40, 3585-3597. PDF
McColl, S.L., Ziegler, L. & Hess, R.F. (2000).
Stereodeficient
subjects
demonstrate non-linear stereopsis. Vision Res. 40, 1167-1177. PDF
Wilcox. L.M., Elder, J.H. & Hess, R.F. (2000). The
effects
of blur and size on monocular and stereoscopic localization.
Vision
Res. 40, 3575-3584. PDF
Ziegler, L.R., Hess, R.F. & Kingdom, F.A.A. (2000). Global
factors that determine the maximum disparity for seeing cyclopean
surface
shape. Vision Res. 40, 493-502. PDF
Ziegler, L.R., Kingdom, F.A.A. & Hess, R.F. (2000). Local
luminance factors that determine the maximum disparity for seeing
cyclopean
surface shape. Vision Res. 40, 1157-1165. PDF
Demanins R, Wang Y-I, and Hess R F (1999) The neural deficit in
strabismic
amblyopia: sampling considerations. Vision Res. 39, 3575-3585.
Hess R F and Dakin S C (1999) Contour integration in the peripheral field. Vision Res. 39, 947-959.
Hess, R.F., Baker, Jr., C.L. and Wilcox, L.M. (1999). Comparison of motion and stereopsis: linear and nonlinear performance. J. Opt. Soc. Am. A. 16, 987-994.
Hess, R.F., Wang, Y.-Z. & Dakin, S.C. (1999). Are judgements of circularity local or global? Vision Res. 39, 4354-4360.
Hess R F, Wang Y-I, Demanins R, Wilkinson F and Wilson H R A (1999) Deficit for global shape detection in amblyopia. Vision Res. 39, 901-914
Hess R F, Kingdom F A A and Ziegler L (1999) On the relationship between the spatial channels for luminance and disparity processing. Vision Res. 39, 557-566
Ziegler L and Hess R F (1999) Stereoscopic depth but not shape perception from second-order processing. Vision Res. 39, 1491-1509.
Dakin S and Hess R F (1999) Contour integration and scale combination processes in visual edge detection. Spatial Vision 12, 309-327.
Demanins R, Hess R F, Williams C B and Keeble D R T (1999) The orientation discrimination deficit in strabismic amblyopia depends upon stimulus bandwidth. Vision Res. (39, 4018-4031.
Fredericksen, R.E. & Hess, R.F. (1999). Temporal detection in human vision: dependence on spatial frequency. J. Opt. Soc. Am. A. 16, 2601-2624.
Keeble, D.R.T. and Hess, R.F. (1999). Discriminating local continuity in curved figures. Vision Res. 39, 3287-3299.
Ziegler, .L.R. and Hess, R.F. (1999). Stereoscopic depth but not shape perception from second-order stimuli. Vision Res. 39, 1491-1507.
Ziegler L, Hess R F & Kingdom F A A (1999) What global factor determines Dmax for shape-from-stereo. Vision Res. 40, 493-502.
Ziegler, L., Kingdom, F. A. A. and Hess R. F.(1999) What local factors determine the maximum disparity for seeing cyclopean surface shape. Vision Res. 40, 1157-1165.
Dakin, S. C., Williams, C. W. and Hess R. F. (1999) The interaction of first and second-order cues to orientation. Vision Res. 39, 2867-2884.
Hess, R. F., Baker, C. L. Jr and Wilcox, L. M. (1999) Comparison of motion and stereo: linear and non-linear performance. J Opt. Soc. Am. A 16,987-994
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