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Pelli,
D. G., & Tillman, K. A. (2008) The uncrowded window of object
recognition. Nature
Neuroscience. Will appear in the October issue. Still under
embargo, but you can request a preprint by email. |
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Special issue: Pelli, D. G., Cavanagh, P., Desimone,
R., Tjan, B., & Treisman,
A. (2007). Crowding: Including illusory conjunctions, surround suppression,
and attention. Journal of Vision, 7(2):i, 1, http://journalofvision.org/7/2/i/
[Press
release] [www.livescience.com] |
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Pelli, D. G., Tillman, K. A., Freeman, J.,
Su, M., Berger, T. D., & Majaj, N. J. (2007) Crowding
and eccentricity determine reading rate. Journal
of Vision, 7(2):20, 1-36, http://journalofvision.com/7/2/20 |
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Levi, D. M., Song, S., & Pelli,
D. G. (2007) Amblyopic
reading is crowded. Journal
of Vision, 7(2):21, 1-17, http://journalofvision.com/7/2/21 |
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Freeman, J., & Pelli, D. G.
(2007) An escape from crowding. Journal
of Vision, 7(2):22, 1-14, http://journalofvision.com/7/2/22 |
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Pelli, D. G., & Tillman, K. A. (2007)
Parts, wholes, and context in reading: A triple dissociation. PLoS
ONE 2(8): e680. http://www.plosone.org/doi/pone.0000680 |
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| News report: |
WNYC Morning Edition public radio broadcast and article about
“phonics” with interview of Pelli regarding Pelli & Tillman
2007.
Scientific American. BoingBoing. News-Medical.Net. |
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Eaton, K. A., Pelli, D. G., & Levi, D. M. (submitted) Efficacy
of the Pelli-Levi Dual Acuity Chart in diagnosing amblyopia. |
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| News report: |
"Fade to Gray: California Tries New Eye Test," All
things considered, National Public Radio, NPR, June 1, 2007,
radio interview with Ian Bailey discussing use of Pelli-Robson contrast
sensitivity chart by California Department of Motor Vehicles to assess
vision of drivers. |
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Pelli,
D. G., Burns, C. W., Farell, B., & Moore-Page, D. C.
(2006) Feature detection and letter identification. Vision
Research, 46(28), 4646-4674. [PubMed]
(Cited by 58. Working title was “Identifying letters”.) |
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Oruç, I., Landy, M. S., & Pelli,
D. G. (2006) Noise masking reveals channels for second-order
letters. Vision Research, 46, 1493–1506. [PubMed] |
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Martelli, M., Majaj, N. J., & Pelli,
D. G. (2005) Are faces processed like words? A diagnostic test
for recognition by parts. Journal of Vision, 5(1), 58-70, http://journalofvision.org/5/1/6/
[1,737 downloads
1.82/day. Cited by 13.] |
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| News reports: |
TIME
Magazine: The eyes
(and brain) of the beholder. (3/21/05). Science
Daily. The Local Papers (pdf). |
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Pelli,
D. G. (2005). What is observation? James Turrell's skyspace at PS1.
[¿Qué significa observar? El Skyspace de James
Turrell en PS1 Contemporary Art Center.] In A. M. Torres, James
Turrell. Valencia, Spain: Institut Valencia d'Art Modern (IVAM). ISBN
8448239520. Catalog of an exhibition held at IVAM, Valencia, 14 Dec.
2004-27 Feb. 2005.
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NY Arts Magazine, November/December
2005, Vol. 9, No. 11/12. http://www.nyartsmagazine.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=3058&Itemid=695 |
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| Radio: |
Studio
360, the national public radio show hosted by Kurt Andersen,
presented, “Skyspace: Dr. Denis Pelli researches how
we read, identify shapes, even why we find art compelling. Once
a semester he takes a group of students to see a piece of installation
art that he believes will teach them how to be better scientific
observers. Laura Starecheski tagged along for the class trip.” Produced
by Laura Starecheski. Feb.
9, 2006. Click
the headphones (right) to play the audio; you'll need the free
RealPlayer. |
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 Pelli,
D. G., Palomares, M., & Majaj,
N. J. (2004). Crowding is unlike ordinary masking: Distinguishing
feature integration from detection. Journal of Vision, 4(12),
1136-1169, http://journalofvision.org/4/12/12/
[1,093
downloads 1.15/day. Cited by 90.] |
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Pelli, D. G., Levi, D. M., & Chung, S. T. L. (2004) Using visual
noise to characterize amblyopic letter identification. Journal
of Vision, 4, 904-920, http://journalofvision.org/4/10/6/.
[984
downloads 1.02/day. Cited by 14.] |
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Talgar, C. P., Pelli, D. G., & Carrasco, M. (2004) Covert attention
enhances letter identification without affecting channel tuning. Journal
of Vision, 4, 22-31, http://journalofvision.org/4/1/3/.
[877
downloads 0.81/day. Cited by 13.] |
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Pelli, D. G. (2004). The legal memos about torture. Letter to the
Editor. New York Times, June 13, 2004. |
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Berger, T. D., Martelli, M., & Pelli, D.
G. (2003) Flicker flutter: Is an illusory event as good as the real
thing? Journal of Vision, 3, 406-412, http://journalofvision.org/3/6/1/.
[>780
downloads >0.67/day. Cited by 6.] |
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Pelli,
D. G., Farell, B., & Moore, D. C. (2003) The remarkable
inefficiency of word recognition. Nature, 423, 752-756. [supplement]
[Cited by 66.] |
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| News reports: |
Nature: news & views. Scientific
American: news scan. |
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Majaj,
N. J., Pelli, D. G., Kurshan, P., & Palomares,
M. (2002) The role of spatial frequency channels in letter identification. Vision
Research, 42, 1165-1184. [Cited by 47.] |
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Brainard, D. H., Pelli,
D. G., & Robson, T. (2002) Display characterization. In: J. Hornak
(Ed.) Encyclopedia of Imaging Science and Technology (pp.
172-188): Wiley. [Online
test patterns] [Cited by 30.] |
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Pelli, D. G., & Carrasco, M. (2002). In P. Lennie, S. B. Van
Hemel & National Research Council (Eds.), Visual impairments
: determining eligibility for social security benefits. Washington,
DC: National Academy Press. |
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Pelli, D. G. (2001) Review of David Regan’s “Human Perception of Objects” [Book reviews]. Journal of Optometry and Vision Science 78(11):779. [full
text] |
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Pelli, D., & Radner, J. (2001). Fighting back while preserving
our values. Letter to the Editor. New York Times, September
19, 2001. |
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Pelli, D. G. (1999) Close encounters An
artist shows that size affects shape. Science, 285, 844-846. [full
text] |
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Reprinted in:
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Ecco Presss anthology Best American Science
Writing 2000, edited by James Gleick. |
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Pelli, D. G. (1999) An artists work blurs the lines between
art and science. New York Times, August 10, 1999, F5. [full
text] |
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| Radio: |
Studio
360, the national public radio show hosted by Kurt Andersen,
presented, “How Art Works: Denis Pelli, a professor
of psychology and neural science at NYU, describes how the grid
paintings of Chuck Close led him to a significant neurological
discovery.” Produced by Jocelyn Gonzales. 2/3/01 and 4/7/01.
Click the headphones (right) to play the audio; you'll need the free
RealPlayer. |
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| News reports: |
Further media coverage of the Pelli (1999) Science article: ABCNEWS.COM, BBC
News, BBC Radio 4, 8/6/99, 7:30 PM, Daily
Telegraph (London), Financial Times (London),
8/6/99, Le Figaro (Paris), 8/6/99, ScienceNOW,
Times (London), Toledo
Blade |
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Cavanagh, P., & Kennedy, J. M.; Pelli, D. G., & Palomares,
M. (2000) Close encounters: Details veto depth from shadows; Response. Science 287:
2421. (in Letters) [full
text] |
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Farell, B. & Pelli, D. G. (1999) Psychophysical
methods, or how to measure a threshold and why. In R. H. S. Carpenter & J.
G. Robson (Eds.), Vision Research: A Practical Guide to Laboratory
Methods, New York: Oxford University Press. [Cited by 11.] |
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Pelli,
D. G. & Farell, B. (1999) Why use noise? Journal
of the Optical Society of America A, 16, 647-653. [Cited by
70.] |
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Pelli, D. G. (1997) Seeing is easy. The Thresholds:
Limits of Perception exhibition and Theories of Vision symposium. NY
Arts Magazine, (14) [Philadelphia
Inquirer] |
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Pelli, D. G. & Torres, A. M. (1997) Thresholds: Limits
of perception. New York: NY Arts Magazine. |
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| News reports: |
Articles about the exhibition and symposium appeared in the Philadelphia
Inquirer (Flam, F., “In the mind’s
eye”, 1997, Dec. 1, pp. C1, 4), in Psychology
and the Arts (Ettinger, T., “A symposium and exhibit:
visual science / visual art.” Fall 1997), and in the
internet science magazine HMS
Beagle (Kuzma, S., “Art
for science’s sake and science for art’s sake.” 1997,
issue 17). |
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Cornelissen, F. W., Pelli, D. G., Farell, B., Huckins, S. C., & Szeverenyi,
N. M. (1997) A binocular fiberscope for presenting visual stimuli
during fMRI. Spatial Vision, 11 (1), 75-81. [Cited by 4.] |
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Pelli, D. G. (1997) Pixel independence: measuring spatial interactions
on a CRT display. Spatial Vision, 10, 443-446. [Cited by
13.] |
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       Pelli,
D. G. (1997) The VideoToolbox software for visual psychophysics:
transforming numbers into movies. Spatial Vision, 10, 437-42. [full
text] [Cited
by 813.] |
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| Software: |
VideoToolbox — A
free collection of two hundred C subroutines for Macintosh computers
to calibrate and control the computer-display interface, making it
possible to create accurately specified visual stimuli. This became
the foundation for the Psychophysics
Toolbox. |
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Pelli, D. G., & Farell, B. (1995) Psychophysical methods. In:
M. Bass, E. W. Van Stryland, D. R. Williams, & W. L. Wolfe (Eds.), Handbook
of Optics, 2nd ed., I (pp. 29.21-29.13). New York: McGraw-Hill. [Cited
by 7.] |
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 Solomon,
J. A., & Pelli, D. G. (1994)
The visual filter mediating letter identification. Nature 369, 395-397. [demo] [Cited
by 135.] |
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Verghese, P., & Pelli, D. G. (1994) The
scale bandwidth of visual search. Vision Research, 34 (7), 955-962. |
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Farell, B., & Pelli, D. G. (1993) Can we
attend to large and small at the same time? Vision Research 33,
2757-2772. [Cited
by 19.] |
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Verghese,
P., & Pelli, D. G. (1992) The
information capacity of visual attention. Vision Research 32, 983-995. [Cited
by 44.] |
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Gescheider, G. A., Verrillo, R. T., & Pelli, D. G. (1992) Effects
of noise on detection of amplitude increments of sinusoidal vibration
of the skin. J Acoust Soc Am, 91 (1), 348-353. [abstract] [Cited
by 10.] |
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Legge, G. E., & Pelli, D. G. (1992) Research directions in
low vision. In: National Advisory Eye Council & National Institutes
of Health (Eds.), Vision ResearchA National Plan: 1992-1996. |
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Pelli, D. G. (1992) The readers' NIH [letter]. Science, 258 (5082),
531. |
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Pelli, D. G. (1991) Noise in the
visual system may be early. In: M. Landy & J. A. Movshon (Eds.), Computational
Models of Visual Processing (pp. 147-152). Cambridge: MIT Press. [Cited
by 7.] |
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  Pelli,
D. G., & Zhang, L. (1991) Accurate control
of contrast on microcomputer displays. Vision Research 31,
1337-1350. [Cited
by 284.] |
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Pelli, D. G., & Robson, J. G. (1991) Are letters
better than gratings? Clinical Vision Sciences, 6, 409-411. [Cited
by 12.] |
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 Pelli,
D. G. (1990) The quantum efficiency of vision. In: C. Blakemore (Ed.) Vision:
Coding and Efficiency (pp. 3-24). Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press. [Cited
by 131.] |
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Pelli, D. G., & Chamberlain, S. C. (1989) The visibility
of 350°C black-body radiation by the shrimp Rimicaris exoculata and
man. Nature, 337, 460-461. [Cited
by 24.] |
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Pelli, D. G., & Hoepner, J. A. (1989) Letters in
noise: A visual test chart that bypasses the optics.
In: Noninvasive Assessment of the Visual System, 1989 Technical
Digest Series, 7 (pp. 103-106). Washington, DC: Optical Society
of America. |
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   Pelli,
D. G., Robson, J. G., & Wilkins,
A. J. (1988) The design of a new letter chart for measuring contrast
sensitivity. Clinical Vision Sciences 2, 187-199. [Cited
by 366.] |
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| Chart in museum: |
The Pelli-Robson Contrast Sensitivity Chart is in the
Museum of Modern Art’s permanent design collection. |
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| News reports: |
Syracuse University announced the Pelli-Robson chart
as a potential screening device for early detection of eye disease
and held press conference, June 1988. The story appeared on national
radio and television in U.S. and U.K., on the front page of the Wall
Street Journal, and in the New York, L.A., and London
Times, as well as the Times of India, and in New Scientist,
GEO, Ophthalmology Today, Reader’s Digest, and Good
Housekeeping. |
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Pelli, D. G., & Levi, D. M. (1988) On writing
grant proposals: confessions of two grant reviewers. Am J Optom
Physiol Opt, 65 (7), 598. |
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Pelli,
D. G. (1987) The visual requirements of mobility. In: G. C. Woo (Ed.) Low
Vision: Principles and Applications (p. 134146): Springer
Verlag. [Cited
by 32.]
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Pelli, D. G. (1987) On the relation between summation
and facilitation. Vision Res, 27 (1), 119-23. [Cited
by 14.] |
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Van Doren, C. L., Pelli, D. G., & Verrillo, R.
T. (1987) A device for measuring tactile spatiotemporal sensitivity. J
Acoust Soc Am, 81 (6), 1906-1916. [abstract] [Cited
by 10.] |
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Relkin, E. M., & Pelli, D. G. (1987) Probe tone
thresholds in the auditory nerve measured by two-interval forced-choice
procedures. J Acoust Soc Am, 82 (5), 1679-1691. [abstract] [Cited
by 25.] |
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Pelli, D. G. (1987) Programming in PostScript: Imaging
on paper from a mathematical description. BYTE, 12 (5), 185-202. |
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Barlow, H. B., & Pelli, D.
G. (1987) The statistical efficiency of natural and artificial vision.
Special issue of the Journal of the Optical Society of America
A, Part 1, December, 1987, Part 2, April, 1988. |
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| Movie at museum and on tv: |
What is Low Vision? Commissioned to produce
and direct video for the Art of the Eye exhibition at the
Minnesota Museum of Art, January 25 to March 30, 1986. Shows the
general public that low vision may be understood in terms of three
optical dimensions: resolution, contrast, and field. Aired nationally
on public television on July 20, 1987, in the National Science Foundation’s How
About ...? series in an episode entitled “Experiencing
Low Vision.” In 1990 Syracuse University distributed this
tape to 400 low-vision rehabilitation centers nationwide to explain
low vision to patients’ relatives. |
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  Pelli,
D. G. (1985) Uncertainty explains many aspects of visual contrast
detection and discrimination. Journal
of the Optical Society of America A 2, 1508-1532. [Cited
by 237.] |
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 Legge, G. E., Pelli, D. G., Rubin, G. S., & Schleske,
M. M. (1985) Psychophysics of reading. I. Normal vision. Vision
Research 25, 239-252. [Cited
by 128.] |
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 Legge,
G. E., Rubin, G. S., Pelli, D. G., & Schleske,
M. M. (1985) Psychophysics of reading. II. Low vision. Vision
Research, 25, 253-265. [Cited
by 151.] |

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Pelli, D. G., Legge, G. E., & Schleske,
M. M. (1985) Psychophysics of reading. III. A fiberscope low-vision
reading aid. Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci, 26 (5), 751-63. [Cited
by 7.] |
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   Watson,
A. B. & Pelli, D. G. (1983) QUEST: a Bayesian adaptive psychometric
method. Percept Psychophys, 33 (2), 113-20. [Cited
by 410.] |
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| Software: |
QUEST toolbox for MATLAB. Robust easy-to-use implementation
of several excellent procedures for estimating threshold. Freely
available and quite popular. See software. |
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Pelli,
D. G. (1981) Effects of visual noise. PhD Thesis, Cambridge
University. [Cited
by 97.] |
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Campbell, F. W., & Pelli, D.
G. (1976) A capillary electrometer [proceedings]. J Physiol (Lond),
263 (1), 64-67. |
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