Refereed Journal Articles

Caleb, O. & Spehar, B. (2007). Unique temporal change does not account for attentional capture by sudden onsets. Visual Cognition, (First Published online on: 01 October, 2007) PDF

Huon, G., Spehar, B., Adams, P. & Rifkin, W. (2007). Resource use and academic performance among first year psychology students. Higher Education, 53, 1-27 PDF

Cass J.R. & Spehar, B. (2005). “Dynamics of cross- and iso-surround facilitation suggest distinct mechanisms”. Vision Research, 45, 3060-3073 PDF

Cass, J.R. & Spehar. B, (2005). “Dynamics of collinear facilitation are consistent with long-range horizontal striate transmission”. Vision Research, 45, 2728-2739 PDF

Hawyard, W.G., Wong, A.C.N., & Spehar B (2005). “When are viewpoint costs greater for silhouettes than shaded images?” Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, 12, 321-327 PDF

Taylor, R.P., Spehar, B., Wise, J.A., Clifford, C.W.G., Newell, B.R., Hagerhall, C.M., Purcell, T. & Martin, T.P. (2005). “Perceptual and physiological responses to the visual complexity of Pollock dripped fractal patterns” Non-linear Dynamics, Psychology and Life Sciences, 9, 89-114

Clifford, C.W.G., Spehar, B. & Pearson, J. (2004). “Motion transparency promotes synchronous perceptual binding” Vision Research, 44, 3073-3080 PDF

Clifford, C.W.G., Pearson, J., Forte, J.D. & Spehar, B. (2003). “Colour and luminance selectivity of spatial and temporal interactions in orientation perception” Vision Research, 43, 2885-2893 PDF

Spehar, B. & Clifford, C.W.G. (2003). “When does illusory contour formation depend on contrast polarity?” Vision Research, 43, 1915-1919 PDF

Spehar, B., Clifford, C.W.G., Newell, B. & Taylor, R.P. (2003). "Universal Aesthetic of Fractals" Computers & graphics, 27, 813-820 PDF

Clifford, C.W.G., Spehar, B., Solomon, S.G., Martin, P.R. & Zaidi, Q. (2003). "Interactions between colour and luminance in the perception of orientation" Journal of Vision, 3, 106-115 PDF

Spehar, B. & Gillam, B. (2002) "Modal completion in the poggendorff illusion: support for the depth-processing theory" Psychological Science, 13, 306-312 PDF

Spehar, B. & Clifford, C.W.G. (2002). "Painting with light by Nick Carter: dramatic failures of colour constancy in articulated scenes" Perception, 31, 197-200 PDF

Speher, B., Clifford, C.W.G. & Agostini, T. (2002). "Induction in variants of White's effect: common or separate mechanisms?" Perception, 31, 189-196 PDF

Spehar, B. (2002). "The role of contrast polarity in perceptual closure" Vision Research, 42, 343-350 PDF

Spehar, B. (2000) "Degraded illusory contour formation with non-uniform inducers in Kanizsa configurations: the role of contrast polarity" Vision Research, 40, 2653-2659 PDF

Clifford, C.W.G., Wenderoth, P. & Spehar, B. (2000). "A functional angle on some after-effects in cortical vision" Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B, 267, 1705-1710 PDF

Gilchrist, A., Kossyfidis, C., Bonato, F., Agostini, T., Cataliotti, J., Li, X., Spehar, B., Annan, V. & Economou. E. (1999). "An anchoring theory of lightness perception" Psychological Review, 106, 795-834 PDF

Zaidi, Q., Spehar, B. & DeBonet, J. (1998). "Adaptation to textured chromatic fields" Journal of the Optical Society of America A, 15, 23-32 PDF

Spehar, B. & Zaidi, Q. (1997). "New configurational effects on perceived contrast and brightness: second order White's effects" Perception, 26, 409-417

Zaidi, Q. & Spehar, B. (1997). "Induced effects of backgrounds and foregrounds in pictures of three-dimensional configurations: the role of T junctions" Perception, 26, 395-408

Spehar, B. & Zaidi, Q. (1997). "Surround effects on the shape of the temporal sensitivity function"Journal of the optical Society of America, 14, 2517-2525 PDF

Zaidi, Q., Spehar, B. & DeBonet, J. (1997). "Colour constancy in variegated scenes: the role of low-level mechanisms in discounting illumination changes" Journal of the Optical Society of America A, 14 2608-2621 PDF

Spehar, B., Gilchrist, A.L. & Arend, L.E. (1997). "Qualitative boundaries critical in square-wave brightness illusions: A reply to Kingdom et al (1996)" PDF Vision Research, 37, 1044-1048 PDF

Spehar, B., DeBonet, J. & Zaidi, Q. (1996). "Brightness Induction from Uniform and Complex Surrounds: A General Model" Vision Research, 36, 1893-1906 PDF

Greenstein, V., Zaidi, Q., Hood, D., DeBonet, J.S., Spehar, B., Cideciyan, A. & Jacobson, S. (1996). "Enhanced S Cone Syndrome: receptoral and post-receptoral analyses" Vision Research, 36, 3711-3722; Reprinted in OSA Trends in Optics and Photonics Series Vol. 11, Noninvasive Assessment of the Visual System Yager D (ed.) (Optical Society of America Washington DC 1997) PDF

Spehar, B., Gilchrist, A.L. & Arend, L.E. (1995). "The critical role of relative luminance relations in White's effect and grating induction" Vision Research, 35. 2603-2614 PDF

Spehar, B., Arend, L.A. & Gilchrist, A.L. (1995). "Contrast-contrast: interactions between spatial and luminance factors" Review of Psychology, 2, 3-12 PDF

Arend, L.E. & Spehar, B. (1993). "Lightness, Brightness and Brightness Contrast: Illuminance Variation" Perception and Psychophysics, 54, 446-456 PDF

Arend, L.E. & Spehar, B. (1993). "Lightness, Brightness and Brightness Contrast: Reflectance Variation" Perception and Psychophysics, 54, 457-468 PDF

Book Chapters

Taylor, R.P., Newell, B., Spehar, B. & Clifford, C.W.G. (2002). “Fractals: a resonance between Art and Nature” in The Visual Mind Part 2 (ed. M Emmer) Cambridge MA: MIT Press in press

Published Conference Papers

Taylor, R.P., Newell, B., Spehar, B. & Clifford, C.W.G. (2001). "Fractals: a resonance between art and nature?" Symmetry: Art and Science, 1, 194-197

Conference Presentations and Published Abstracts

Spehar, B., Clifford, C., Seymour, K. et al (2006). The role of the lateral occipital complex (LOC) in perception of illusory contours. Australian Journal of Psychology, 58, 91-91 Suppl. S

Cass, J.R. & Spehar, B. (2004). Dynamics of contrast facilitation are consistent with long-range horizontal striate mediation. Australian Journal of Psychology, 56, 109-109 Suppl. S

Owens, C., Siegal, J. & Spehar, B. (2004). Top-down task-sets are sufficient but not necessary for visual attentional capture to occur. Australian Journal of Psychology, 56, 130-131 Suppl. S

Spehar, B. & Owens, C. (2004). Attentional capture during the attentional blink. Australian Journal of Psychology, 56, 137-137 Suppl. S

Cass, J.R. & Spehar, B. (2004). Spatiotemporal dynamics of coaxial and parallel contrast facilitation suggest distinct mechanisms. Perception, 33, 41-41 Suppl. S

Clifford, C.W.G., Forte, J.D., Pearson, J. & Spehar, B. (2003). “Chromatic selectivity of human orientation processing” Proc. Aust. Neuroscience, 14, Oral 7/4

Spehar, B. & Clifford, C.W.G. (2003). “Visual completion of image fragments” Proc. Aust. Neuroscience, 14, Poster 284

Clifford, C.W.G., Spehar, B., Solomon, S.G., Martin, P.R. & Zaidi, Q. (2002) “Colour-luminance interactions in human orientation perception” Journal of Vision, 2, 215a

Spehar, B., Clifford, C.W.G. & Johnston, A. (2002). “The role of oriented filters and T-junctions in White’s Effect” Journal of Vision, 2, 555a

Spehar, B., Clifford, C.W.G. & Rhodes, G. (2002). “Search efficiency for average and distorted faces” Proceedings of the 6th Conference of the Australasian Cognitive Science Society, 50

Spehar, B., Parry, L. & Clifford, C.W.G. (2002). “Dynamics of modal and amodal completion” Perception, 31, ECVP Supplement 152

Spehar, B. & Clifford, C.W.G. (2001). "Brightness induction in variants of White's effect" Aust. J. Psychol, 53, Australian Psychology Conferences Supplement 66

Spehar, B., Clifford, C.W.G. & Agostini, T. (2001). "Brightness induction in complex figural surrounds: classical and inverted White’s effects reconsidered" Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science, 42, S51

Owens, C., Spehar, B. & Andrews, S. (2001). "The importance of singleton relevance for attentional capture" Paper accepted for the Psychonomic Society Conference, November, Los Angeles, USA

Owens, C. & Spehar, B. (2001). "Varieties of attentional capture" Paper presented at the 27th Australian Experimental Psychology Conference, April, Melbourne

Spehar, B., Clifford, C.W.G. & Agostini, T. (2001). "Brightness induction in complex figural surrounds: classical and inverted White's effects reconsidered" Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science, 42, S51

Spehar, B. (2000). "Fraser cords: A new twist" Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science, 41, S453

Spehar, B. & Zaidi, Q. (2000). "Crispening in luminance and colour" Perception, 30, 35

Spehar, B. & Clifford, C. (1999) "The role of flicker and motion in the perception of illusory contours" Perception, 29, S32

Spehar, B. (1999). "The role of contrast polarity in illusory contour formation" Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science, 40, S779

Gillam, B. Proudfoot, H. & Spehar, B. (1999). "The relationship between figure-ground perception and subjective contours" Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science, 40, S779

Spehar, B. (1999). "Inducers' non-uniformity and illusory contour formation" Australian Journal of Psychology, 51, Supplement

Spehar, B. (1998). "Discrimination of Illusory Shapes" The Australasian Ophthalmic and Vision Science Meeting, 27-29 November, Canberra

Spehar, B. & Gillam, B. (1998). "The role of modal and amodal completion in Poggendorff illusion" Perception, 28, Supplement

Spehar, B. (1998). "Is perceptual closure sensitive to contrast polarity reversals?" Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology, Annual Meeting, Ft. Lauderdale, Florida

Spehar, B., Cheang, A., Soo, C., Ramdoyal, A. & Gentle, C. (1997). "The effect of contrast polarity on perceptual closure" The Australasian Ophthalmic and Vision Science Meeting, Canberra, 6-7 December

Spehar, B., Blackburn, S. & Gillam, B. (1997). "Local and global constraints on illusory contour formation: The role of T-junctions" Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology, Annual Meeting (Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science 37 Supplement)

Spehar, B. (1997). "The role of T-junctions in illusory contour formation" Australian Experimental Psychology Conference, Deakin University, Geelong

Zaidi, Q., Spehar, B. & DeBonet, J.S. (1996). "Adaptation to variegated scenes and colour constancy" European Conference on Visual Perception, September 1996, Strassbourg, France, Perception 26 Supplement

Spehar, B. & Zaidi, Q. (1996). "Effects of simple and complex surrounds on temporal contrast sensitivity" Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology, Annual Meeting (Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science, 37, 392)

Zaidi, Q., Spehar, B. & DeBonet, J.S. (1996). "Chromatic adaptation to variegated fields" Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology, Annual Meeting (Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science, 37, 279)

Spehar, B., DeBonet, J. & Zaidi, Q. (1995). "Spatial summation of brightness induction" Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology, Annual Meeting (Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science, 36, S468)

Spehar, B., DeBonet, J. & Zaidi, Q. (1995) "Brightness induction from complex surrounds" European Conference on Visual Perception (Perception 24 S37)

Spehar, B., DeBonet, J. & Zaidi, Q. (1995). "Spatial summation of brightness induction in spatially non-homogeneous surrounds" American Psychological Society Annual Convention, New York

Zaidi, Q. DeBonet, J.S. & Spehar, B. (1995). "Detection of illumination changes in variegated scenes" Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology, Annual Meeting (Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science, 36, 640)

Greenstein, V., Hood, D.C., Zaidi, Q., Spehar, B., DeBonet, J., Cideciyan, A.V. & Jacobson, S.G. (1995) "Enhanced S cone syndrome: Evidence for relatively more S than L and M cones" Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology, Annual Meeting (Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science, 36, 447)

Zaidi, Q., DeBonet, J. & Spehar, B. (1995). "Detection of illumination changes in variegated scenes" European Conference on Visual Perception (Perception, 24, 12)

Zaidi, Q., DeBonet, J.S. & Spehar, B. (1995). "Perceived grey-levels in complex configurations" Inter Society Color Council, Annual Meeting (ISCC 64th Annual Meeting 39-42 1995)

Spehar, B. Agostini, T. & Gilchrist, A.L. (1994). "When is surface lightness matched in terms of absolute luminance versus relative luminance" Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology, Annual Meeting (Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science, 35, 2166)

Spehar, B., Arend, L.E. & Gilchrist, A.L. (1992). "White’s illusion: A new luminance distribution constraint" Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology, Annual Meeting (Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science, 33, 2836)

Spehar, B., Gilchrist, A.L. & Arend, L.E. (1992). "White’s illusion: The role of intensity and figural relationships" European Conference on Visual Perception Perception, 21, 81

Spehar, B. & Arend, L.E. (1991). "Perceptual factors in contrast-contrast" Optical Society of America Annual Meeting, San Jose, California, Technical Digest


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