Allison B. Sekuler
Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley
Associate Professor (St. George Campus)
sekuler@psych.utoronto.ca
416-978-6057

Research Interests
spatial vision; object perception; motion perception; aging and vision.

Teaching

Vision Lab Students

Vision Lab Dog

Research Group in Perception

Royal Canadian Institute: Free Science Lectures


Selected References

  • ARVO '98 Lab Presentations

  • Sekuler AB, Sekuler R & Penbeci P Perceived direction of motion vs. detection of global flow in random dot cinematograms. Poster presented at the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology, Ft. Lauderdale, April 1996

  • Bennett PJ, Sekuler AB & Ozin L (under revision). The effects of aging on calculation efficiency and equiavlant noise. Submitted to Journal of the Optical Society of America A.

  • Guttman S & Sekuler AB (under revision). Visual completion of partly occluded objects: An exploration of spatial and temporal limits. Submitted to Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception & Performance .

  • Sekuler AB & Sekuler R (under revision) Collisions between moving visual targets: What controls alternative ways of seeing an ambiguous display? Submitted to Perception

  • Sekuler R & Sekuler AB (in press) Vision and cognition. To appear in The Oxford Textbook of Geriatric Medicine, 2nd Ed..

  • Sekuler R, Sekuler AB & Lau R (1997) Sound can affect motion perception. Nature, 385, 308.

  • Sekuler AB (1996) Axis of elongation can determine reference frames for object perception. Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology. 50, 270-279.

  • Sekuler AB & Bennett PJ (1996) Spatial phase can drive apparent motion. Perception & Psychophysics 58 174-190.

  • Sekuler AB, Lee J & Shettleworth SJ (1996) Pigeons do not complete partly occluded objects. Perception. 25 1109-1120.

  • Sekuler AB (1994) Local and global minima in visual completion: effect of symmetry and orientation. Perception 23 529-545.

  • Sekuler AB, Palmer SE & Flynn C (1994) Local and global processes in visual completion. Psychological Science 5 260-267.

  • Sekuler AB & Sekuler R (1993) Representational development of direction in motion perception: A fragile process. Perception 22 899-915.

  • Sekuler AB & Palmer SE (1992) Perception of partly occluded objects: A microgenetic analysis. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General 121 95-111.

  • Sekuler R & Sekuler AB (1992) Visual perception and cognition. In JG Evans & TF Williams (editors) Oxford Textbook of Geriatric Medicine, Oxford University Press. Pp. 575-580.

  • Sekuler AB (1992) Simple-pooling of unidirectional motion predicts speed discrimination for looming stimuli. Vision Research 32 2277-2288.