Schedule

FECHNER DAY 2010
SCIENTIFIC PROGRAM AND MEETING SCHEDULE

150th anniversary of the appearance of Fechner's "Elements of Psychophysics"
Note: The following is a provisional schedule of events and is subject to change.
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October 19th, 2010

08:30 – 09:30 Registration

Free Talks:
09:30 – 10:00 Giulio Vidotto, Alessia Bastianelli
Welcome to Fechner Day 2010: Psychology and Psychophysics in Padua
10:00- 10:20 Giovanni Bruno Vicario
About Psychophysics and Fechner
10:20 – 10:40 Bruce A. Schneider
The evolution of Psychophysics: From sensation to cognition and back again
10:40 – 11:00 Riccardo Luccio
Fechner's Seelenfrage: The place of the soul in psychology
11:00 – 11:20 John S. Monahan
The Effects of Incongruency Probability, Response Mode, and Stimulus Set on RT
11:20 – 11:40 Ragnar Steingrimsson, R. Duncan Luce
 The commutative rule as a new test for additive conjoint measurement: theory and data
11:40 – 12:00 Pasquale Anselmi, Luca Stefanutti, Egidio Robusto
Identifiability and Goodness of Recovery in the Constrained Gain-Loss Model
12:00 – 12:20 William M. Petrusic
 Comparing and Estimating Efforts
12:20 -12:40 Kazuo Ueda, Yoshitaka Nakajima, Yu'ichi Satsukawa
 Effects of Frequency-Band Elimination on Syllable Identification of Japanese Noise-Vocoded Speech: Analyses of Confusion Matrices

12:40 – 14:00 Welcome Buffet (Courtesy of the Department of General Psychology- University of Padua)

14:00 – 18:00 Theme session: “Matching Regularity and Fechnerian Scaling”
Organiser: Ehtibar Dzhafarov
Janne V. Kujala, Ehtibar N. Dzhafarov
Regular Minimality Principle and well-behaved Thurstonian-type models
Ali Ünlü, Matthias Trendtel
Testing for regular minimality
Thomas Kiefer, Ali Ünlü
Fechnerain Scaling of IRT Model for dichotomous data

16:00 – 16:30 Coffee break

Matthias Trendtel, Ali Ünlü
With what probability regular minimality can be satisfied by change?
Rocío Alcalá-Quintana, Miguel A. García-Pérez
 Order effects in two-interval forced-choice detection tasks
Miguel A. García-Pérez, Rocío Alcalá-Quintana
 Order effects in two-interval forced-choice discrimination tasks: data and model
Ehtibar Dzhafarov
 Matching by adjustment: If X matches Y, does Y match X

October 20th, 2010

08:30 – 10:30 Theme session: “Frontal slope perception – bias and discrimination”
Organiser: Helen E. Ross
Frank H. Durgin, Zhi Li
 Overestimation assists discrimination: Scale expansion theory in slant perception
Alen Hajnal, Blake Watkins, Nicholas Jordan, Jordan Morrow, David Bunch, Attila Farkas
Influence of ground surface on slant perception
Tiziano Agostini, Catina Feresin, Nila Negrin-Saviolo
Kinesthetic and visual–kinaesthetic perception of inclination: Testing the validity of the paddle method
Helen Ross
Perspective effects in frontal slope perception

10:30 – 11:00 Coffee Break

Free Talks:
11:00 – 11:20 J. Scott Jordan, Andrew Kenning, Jim Clinton, Justin Durtschi
Spatial perception during control with another: the 'Other' as potential perturbation
11:20 – 11:40 Timothy L. Hubbard, Susan E. Ruppel
 Effects of Temporal and Spatial Separation on Velocity and Strength of Illusory Line Motion
11:40 – 12:00 Rossana Actis-Grosso, Alessia Bastianelli
 Perceiving objects moving through space and time: “where” and “when” are intertwined
12:00 – 12:20 Mark A. Elliott
 Temporal structure and inner psychophysics: A glimpse of equilibrium?
12:20 – 12:40 Diana Kornbrot, Rachel M. Msetfi, Robin A. Murphy
 Tempus non fugit? Effects of depression, attention and memory on time perception
12:40 – 13:00 Dan Zakay
 Time perception in meta-cognitive processes

13:00 – 14:00 Lunch

Free Talks:
14:00 – 14:20 Joseph Glicksohn, Tal Balaban Dotan, Aviva Berkovich Ohana, Abraham Goldstein, Opher Donchin
 Time Production, Peak Alpha Frequency, and Sex Differences: The Plot Thickens
14:20 – 14:40 José Lino Oliveria Bueno, Alexandre Mateus Moisés
Subjective Time estimation of lulabies: confort and ethnicity
14:40 – 15:00 Naoyuki Osaka, Hiroyuki Tsubomi, Takashi Ikeda, Mariko Osaka
fMRI BOLD signal changes as a power function of luminance: An internal psychopysics approach
15:00 – 18:00 Theme session: Wave-like Representation and Discrete Processing of Information: Theories and Data
 Organisers: Hans-Georg Geissler & Stephen W. Link
Stephen W. Link
Wave Theory: A (non-random) Walk through Essentials, Expansions and Open Issues
Niko Busch
EEG oscillations correlate with sub-second fluctuations of visual perception and sustained attention

16:00 – 16:20 Coffee Break

James T. Townsend, Jerome R. Busemeyer
Quantum Wave Model of Face Identification and Recognition
Hans-Georg Geissler
 Temporal Invariants as a Tool for Modelling

17:20 – 18:00 Round Table Discussion

18:00 – 19:00 Poster Session 1

October 21st, 2010

08:30 – 10:30 Theme session: “Social cognition: psychophysics, brain Imaging and gender effects”
Organiser: Marina Pavlova
Marina Pavlova
 Sex differences in body motion perception: combining psychophysics with brain imaging
Kevin Pelphrey
Sex differences in the development of brain mechanisms for social perception
D.E. Re, R. Whitehead, I.D. Stephen, D.I. Perrett
 Colour thresholds for social judgments about health and attractiveness
Alice Mado Proverbio
Electrical neuroimaging evidences of sex differences in social cognition

10:30 – 11:00 Coffee Break

Free Talks:
11:00 – 11:20 Jiri Wackermann
Geometric-optical illusions: A pedestrian's view of the phenomenal landscape
11:20 – 11:40 Richard F. Murray, Yaniv Morgenstern, Laurence R. Harris
The light-from-above prior is weak
11:40 – 12:00 Andrea Facoetti, Enrico Giora, Luca Ronconi, Milena Ruffino, Simone Gori
 Children with developmental dyslexia show reduced sensitivity to visual motion illusions
12:00 – 12:20 Andrea Spoto, Davide Massidda, Alessia Bastianelli, Rossana Actis-Grosso, Giulio Vidotto
The Poggendorff illusion with anomalous surfaces: a comparison between constant stimuli and the adjusteds methods
12:20 – 12:40 Daniela Bressanelli, Simone Gori
From impossible to possible thanks motion: a new transparency effect
12:40 – 13:00 Simone Gori, Enrico Giora, Tiziano Agostini
 The strength of a visual illusion measured by a related illusory phenomenon

13:00 – 14:00 Lunch

Free Talks:
14:00 – 14:20 Vladimir Zotov, Samuel Shaky, Anthony A. J. Marley
 Absolute Production as a-possible- method to externalized the properties of context dependent internal representation
14:20 – 14:40 Laurence T. Maloney, Maria F. Dal Martello
Allocentric kin recognition based on viewing photographs of children's face is not affected by facial inversion
14:40 – 15:00 Viktor Sarris, Petra Hauf
Contextual Stimulus Generalization and Trasposition in the Young Birds' Psychophysics: Within or Between Designing
15:00 – 15:20 Giovanni Battista Rossi, Francesco Crenna
 Insight in ratio scales
15:20 – 15:40 Kerstin Dittrich, Christoph Stahl
The Stroop matching task: underlying processes and strategic effects
15:40 – 16:00 Hannes Eisler
The differences between the psychological (subjective, perceived) and the physical (clock) durations are greater in males than in females

16:00 – 17:00 Coffee Break and Poster Session 2

17:00 – 18:30 Business Meeting

20:30 Gala Dinner

October 22nd, 2010

08:30 – 11:00 Theme session: Capturing facial expressions by advanced measurement methods
 Organisers: Galina V. Paramei & Armando de Oliveira
Ehtibar N. Dzhafarov, Galina V. Paramei
Space of facial expressions: cumulated versus transformed dissimilarities
Åse Innes-Ker, Fredrik Björklund, Patrik Bratkovic
 Decoding emotional expressions: Interaction of perceived race and implicit racial preferences
Armando de Oliveira, Ana Duarte, Nuno Teixeira, Miguel Oliveira
 From facial features to facial expressions: A functional measurement approach
Bruno Rossion, Goedele Van Belle, Benjamin Votquenne, Philippe Lefèvre
 Holistic vs. analytic processing of facial expression: evidence from gazecontingency and acquired prosopagnosia
Galina V. Paramei, David L. Bimler, Tolga Aykut
Processing chimeric faces in adolescents with Asperger Syndrome

11:00 – 11:30 Coffee Break

Free Talks:
11:30 – 11:50 Kirk N. Olsen, Catherine J. Stevens
 On cognitive and sensory explanations for perceived loudness change in response to dynamic acoustic intensity
11:50 – 12:10 Yoshitaka Nakajima, Tsuyoshi Kuroda, Tomomi Terada
 Auditory events that seem to be formed illusorily from offset cue
12:10 – 12:30 Emi Hasuo, Yoshitaka Nakajima, Kazuo Ueda
 Does filled-duration illusion take place for very short time intervals?
12:30 – 12:50 Sasha Sokolov, Pietro Guardini, Marina Pavlova
Abundant primacy effects in magnitude estimates of loudness with invariant stimulus range

13:00 - 14:00 Lunch

Free Talks:
14:00 - 14:20 Gerald S. Wasserman, Amanda R. Bolbecker, Jia Li, Corrinne C.M. Lim-Kessler
 No retinal efference in humans: an urban legend
14:20 – 14:40 Alba Grieco, Armando de Oliveria
 The locus of collinear facilitation effect in texture processing: an early or late cortical set?
14:40 - 15:00 Enrico Giora, Simone Gori
 Sensitivity to textural statistics affects the perceived size of a visual object
15:00 – 15:20 Lior Cohen-Raz, Niva Goldstein, Yuval Wolf
Serial Rapes in the Eyes of otential Victims: Cognitive and Affective Reflections of Continous Fear of Abuse
15:20 – 15:40 Anne Giersch, Mitsouko van Assche, Weixin Wang, Laurence Lalanne
The anticipation mechanisms in temporal event-coding?
15:40 - 16:00 Gabriel Boud-Bovy, Elia Gatti
 The contribution of proprioception and touch to force perception

16:00 – 17: 00 Coffee Break and Poster Session 3

Free Talks:
17:00 - 17:20 Inbal Malachi, Yael Ben-Aarons, Yuval Wolf
 Terrorist Attacks in the Eyes of Israeli Jews and Arabs
17:20 - 17:40 Daniela Di Menza, Chiara Gaino, Massimo Grassi Andrea Pavan
 The perception of approaching and receding audiovisual objects
17:40 – 18:00 Tandra Ghose, Janelle Liu, P. J. Kellman
 Measuring size of never-presented object: visual object formation through spatiotemporal interpolation
18:00 - 18:20 Pearl Guterman
Using Python for Psychophysics

19:00 – 21:00 Closing Buffet (Courtesy of the Department of Applied Psychology - University of Padua)

Guided Poster Session 1 – October 20th, 2010

  1. Amélie Pfäffli, Thomas H. Rammsayer.
    Evaluation of the equivalence of two different methods of threshold estimations with adaptive psychophysical procedures
  2. Christoph Zetzsche, Florian Röhrbein, Kerstin Schill.
    Weber’s Law and the Statistics of the Natural Environment
  3. Mauro Antonelli, Verena Zudini.
    Fechner vs. Brentano: Their unpublished correspondence on psychophysics
  4. Leonardo Gomes Bernardino, Bruno Marinho de Sousa, Sérgio Sheiji Fukusima.
     Psychophysical method comparison to estimate psychometric functions for visually perceived sizes.
  5. Sergio Cesare Masin, Stefano Rispoli.
     The Law of Buoyancy
  6. De Sá Teixeira, Armando Mónica Oliveira.
     Aristotle versus Philoponus: a functional approach to the intuitive physics of projectiles
  7. Birgitta Berglund, Anders Höglund.
    Psychophysics: Top-Down and Bottom-Up Enable ‘Measuring the Impossible
  8. Carmela Morabito, Mattia Della Rocca.
     Epistemological models in Psychoacoustics: a historical overview
  9. Ana Duarte Silva, Armando Mónica Oliveira, Ricardo Gaspar Viegas, Miguel Oliveira.
    The cognitive algebra of prototypical expressions of emotion in the face: one or many integration rules?
  10. Ricardo Gaspar Viegas, Armando Mónica Oliveira, Ana Garriga-Trillo.
     Loss aversion and the locus of nonlinearity in decision under risk: a test between Prospect Theory and SP/A Theory with functional measurement
  11. Charalampos Karypidis, Antonia Colazo-Simon.
     Vowel quality decay and perceptual asymmetries in light of the neutralization hypothesis
  12. Marcello Maniglia, Andrea Pavan, Gianluca Campana, Clara Casco.
     Effects of fast adaption with complex motion
  13. Hye Joo Han, Charles Viau-Quesnel, Zhuangzhuang Xi, Richard Schweickert, Claudette Fortin.
    Self-timing in memory and visual search tasks
  14. Michele Sinico.
    Duration and grouping in auditory events
  15. Valentina Robol, Clara Casco.
     Contextual Influences in Texture-Edge Discrimination
  16. Yaniv Mama, Daniel Algom.
     Salient Task-Irrelevant Stimuli Disrupt Orthogonal Information but Enhance Correlated Information
  17. Chihiro Saito, Tadayuki Tayama.
    The Mechanism of Interval Timing: Learning and Generalization Effect of Inaccurate Feedback
  18. Leonardo Gomes Bernardino, Bruno Marinho de Sousa, Sérgio Sheiji Fukusima.
     Brief exposure of pictorial depth cues affects perceived sizes
  19. Roberta Cernisoni, Rossana Actis-Grosso, Natale Stucchi, Mauro Antonelli.
    Space and Time in Benussi Tau effect
  20. Alessandro Carlini, Rossana Actis-Grosso, T. Pozzo.
    Localizing objects in Space and Time: a computational model based on a predictive mechanism

    21. Guided Poster Session 2 – October 21st, 2010

    1. Vicovaro Michele, Burigana Luigi.
       The linear integration model of the size-weight illusion: Estimating the parameters by optimal linear separation
    2. Miguel Pereira Oliveira, Armando Mónica Oliveira.
       The joint action of severity and prevalence of drug adverse effects on selfmedication propensity: varying the information presentation format
    3. Florian Kattner, Wolfgang Ellermeier.
      Emotional valence and psychoacoustics of irrelevant speech
    4. Marco Vicentini, Marco Righele, Davide Zerbato, Diego Dall’Alba, Debora Botturi.
      Measuring Pliable Perception Capabilities in Teleoperated and Virtual Environments
    5. Grazia Caporusso.
       Phenomenal Influences On Frohlich Effect
    6. Nuno De Sá Teixeira, Timothy Hubbard.
       Auditory Motion and Visual Representational Momentum: Effects of Response Measure
    7. Massimo Nucci, Giovanni Galfano, Massimiliano Pastore.
       Efficient or inefficient processing of shadows? A change of blindness study
    8. Patricia Stahn, Daniel Oberfeld.
       Sequential streaming reduces the effect of non-simultaneous masking on auditory intensity resolution
    9. Francisco Carlos Nather, José Lino Oliveira Bueno, Daniela Cristina Carvalho De Abreu, Matheus Machado Gomes.
      Body movements and timing estimation related to visual observation of different images representing distinct body positions
    10. Werner Ehm, Michael Bach, Jürgen Kornmeier.
       Variability in gamma activity during observation of ambiguous figures
    11. Thomas H. Rammsayer.
       The effects of sensory modality and type of task on discrimination of durations ranging from 400 to 1,400 milliseconds
    12. Judith Haldemann, Thomas H. Rammsayer.
       A new procedure for psychophysical assessment of Performance on coincidence timing: Evaluating the effects on duration of target presentation and Target masking
    13. Elisabet Borg, Sofia Granberg.
       A pilot study to validate the Borg CR100 (centiMax) Scale®, on mentally stressful stimuli
    14. Elisabet Borg, Mats E. Nilsson.
       A study of range effects for the Borg CR100 (centiMax) Scale® and Magnitude Estimation in Loudness
    15. Katharina Weiß, Ingrid Scharlau.
       Temporal order judgments ? a sensitive measure for measuring perceptual latency?
    16. Marco Tommasi, Silvia Errico.
      Frequency effects and measurement of geographical competence
    17. Thomas Lachmann, Cees van Leeuwen.
       Representational economy, not processing speed, determines preferred processing strategy
    18. Vered Shakuf, Daniel Algom.
       True to Life. The Role of Base Rate and Word-Color Correlation in Engendering the failure of selective attention
    19. Merav Ben Nathan, Daniel Algom.
       Roving versus Fixed Standard in Numerical Comparisons: The Distance Effect Revisited
    20. Rossana Actis-Grosso, Giovanni B. Vicario.
       Apparent Transparency in Motion: Visual Phantoms and the Rosenbach Effect
    21. Roberto Burro, Ivana Bianchi, Ugo Savardi
       Experimental Phenomenology and Phenomenological Psychophysics: the perceptions of contraries

    Guided Poster Session 3 – October 22nd, 2010

    1. Tonya S. Pixton, Mats P. Englund, Åke Hellström.
       Perceived degree and detectability of facial happiness and angriness: The role of particular stimuli
    2. Beatriz Gil-Gómez de Liaño, Juan Botella, David Pascual-Ezama.
       The Effects of Memory Load in Visual Search are Modulated by the Similarity between the Materials Involved
    3. Michele Scandola, Alessia Bastianelli, Maria G. Panetta, Elisa Moretto.
      A comparison between the adjustment and staircase methods for evaluating body size distortion and body dissatisfaction.
    4. Davide Massidda, Alessia Bastianelli, Chiara Mazzone.
      Perceptual body distortion and body dissatisfaction: A study using adjustable partial image distortion
    5. Lucia Regolin, Orsola Rosa Salva, Elena Mascalzoni.
       Sensitivity to social visual cues in the domestic chick
    6. Deirdre Twomey, Mark Glennon, Mark A. Elliott.
       Electrophysiological correlates of flicker-induced form hallucinations
    7. Simon Grondin, Tsuyoshi Kuroda, Takako Mitsudo
       Effect on duration categorization of the space between tactile stimuli marking empty time intervals
    8. Yuki Ashitaka, Hiroyuki Shimada.
       Stroop Effect with Synonymous Homographic Heterophonemic Words in Japanese Kanji
    9. Hiroyuki Shimada, Yuki Ashitaka.
       Are Stroop facilitation and interference effects enhanced by an accompanying auditory word?
    10. David L. Bimler, Tolga Aykut, Galina V. Paramei.
      Processing chimæric faces in adolescents with Asperger’s Syndrome
    11. Olga Daneyko, Daniele Zavagno, Tiziano Agostini.
       Robustness of the achromatic Munsell scale on different backgrounds
    12. Custódio Vagner, Duarte Edison, Almeida José , Gorla José , Elias Robson, Menon Mario.
       Navigation of people with visual impairment in natural areas: A study through independent trekking with adapted remote accompaniment
    13. José Alfredo Lacerda de Jesus, Rosana Maria Tristão, Marcos Vinícius de Oliveira, Naiara Viudes, Mariana Afflalo, Leticia Marçal.
      Psychophysical scales for pain and skin conductance as indicators of acute pain in the neonate
    14. Mats P. Englund, Åke Hellström.
       Semantic Structure Causes Stimulus-Valence Dependent Presentation-Order Effects in Preference Comparisons
    15. Yves Lacouture.
       Long-term representations in absolute identification
    16. Giulia Parovel, Daniela Bressanelli.
       Comic perception and incongruent causal events: The role of paradoxical animacy
    17. Mazviita Chirimuuta.
       Rethinking Illusion
    18. Paul Mulcahy, Orsola Rosa Salva, Mark A. Elliott, Lucia Regolin.
       Structural imbalance and aesthetic preference in domestic chicks
    19. Anna Eisler, Hannes Eisler.
      Time perception in children: Empirical studies in a developmental approach
    20. Hannes Eisler, Anna Eisler.
       Scalar Timing (Expectancy) Theory: A comparison between prospective and retrospective duration