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Selected Papers from the Scottish Vision Group Meeting 2023
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Selected Papers from the Scottish Vision Group Meeting 2023

A special issue of Vision (ISSN 2411-5150).

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 September 2023) | Viewed by 3973

Special Issue Editors

Dr. Paul George Lovell

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Division of Psychology and Forensic Sciences, Abertay University, Dundee, UK
Interests: visual perception; camouflage; behavioural studies with animals
Dr. Rebecca J. Sharman

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Division of Psychology and Forensic Sciences, Abertay University, Dundee, UK
Interests: color vision; visual perception; camouflage; visual discomfort

Special Issue Information

Dear colleagues,

The Scottish Vision Group (SVG) is a key meeting for vision scientists not only in Scotland, but also across the UK, Europe, and beyond. SVG is a small peripatetic conference that has been held all across Scotland since its inception in 2001. The meeting is known for its friendly atmosphere and beautiful scenery, and has been the source of many collaborations and ideas. The meeting is focused on providing early career researchers with an opportunity to present their work and meet with colleagues from different institutions. The 2023 meeting was held at Abertay University in the city of Dundee. The meeting started with a panel discussion on visual search, sponsored by META, led by Prof. Ian Thornton (University of Malta), Prof. Árni Kristjánsson (University of Iceland) and Ioan Smart (Abertay University). The keynote lecture, sponsored by MDPI Vision, was given by Prof. Tim Ledgeway (University of Nottingham) on "Sensory eye dominance and plasticity in adult binocular vision”. The meeting featured presentations on a wide variety of topics, including crowding, colour vision, visual discomfort, and visual search. This Special Issue offers a snapshot of part of the research presented at SVG 2023, highlighting original contributions based on the proceedings of the meeting.

Dr. Paul George Lovell
Dr. Rebecca J. Sharman
Guest Editors

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The Effect of Stimulus Contrast and Spatial Position on Saccadic Eye Movement Parameters
by Viktorija Goliskina, Ilze Ceple, Evita Kassaliete, Evita Serpa, Renars Truksa, Aiga Svede, Linda Krauze, Sergejs Fomins, Gatis Ikaunieks and Gunta Krumina
Vision 2023, 7(4), 68; https://doi.org/10.3390/vision7040068 - 23 Oct 2023
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(1) Background: Saccadic eye movements are rapid eye movements aimed to position the object image on the central retina, ensuring high-resolution data sampling across the visual field. Although saccadic eye movements are studied extensively, different experimental settings applied across different studies have left [...] Read more.
(1) Background: Saccadic eye movements are rapid eye movements aimed to position the object image on the central retina, ensuring high-resolution data sampling across the visual field. Although saccadic eye movements are studied extensively, different experimental settings applied across different studies have left an open question of whether and how stimulus parameters can affect the saccadic performance. The current study aims to explore the effect of stimulus contrast and spatial position on saccadic eye movement latency, peak velocity and accuracy measurements. (2) Methods: Saccadic eye movement targets of different contrast levels were presented at four different spatial positions. The eye movements were recorded with a Tobii Pro Fusion video-oculograph (250 Hz). (3) Results: The results demonstrate a significant effect of stimulus spatial position on the latency and peak velocity measurements at a medium grey background, 30 cd/m2 (negative and positive stimulus polarity), light grey background, 90 cd/m2 (negative polarity), and black background, 3 cd/m2 (positive polarity). A significant effect of the stimulus spatial position was observed on the accuracy measurements when the saccadic eye movement stimuli were presented on a medium grey background (negative polarity) and on a black background. No significant effect of stimulus contrast was observed on the peak velocity measurements under all conditions. A significant stimulus contrast effect on latency and accuracy was observed only on a light grey background. (4) Conclusions: The best saccadic eye movement performance (lowest latency, highest peak velocity and accuracy measurements) can be observed when the saccades are oriented to the right and left from the central fixation point. Furthermore, when presenting the stimulus on a light grey background, a very low contrast stimuli should be considered carefully. Full article
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Abstracts of Scottish Vision Group 2023 Meeting
by Paul George Lovell and Rebecca J. Sharman
Vision 2024, 8(1), 12; https://doi.org/10.3390/vision8010012 - 11 Mar 2024
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Scottish Vision Group has become a yearly event for vision scientists based in Scotland since its inception in 2001. Each year, the conference is hosted at a different location and organised by a different team. The 2023 SVG meeting was hosted in the [...] Read more.
Scottish Vision Group has become a yearly event for vision scientists based in Scotland since its inception in 2001. Each year, the conference is hosted at a different location and organised by a different team. The 2023 SVG meeting was hosted in the city of Dundee by Abertay University. Delegates travelled from the United Kingdom, Europe and beyond. The meeting started with a roundtable panel discussion sponsored by Meta Reality Labs. The roundtable, titled The Past, Present and Future of Visual Search, was organised and presented by Árni Kristjánsson (Iceland), Ioan Smart (Abertay) and Ian Thornton (Malta). The MDPI Keynote lecture was introduced by Professor Andrew Parker (Oxford University and Otto-von-Guericke University in Magdeburg, Germany) and presented by Prof. Timothy Ledgeway (Nottingham) on sensory eye dominance and plasticity in adult binocular vision. The remaining two days of the conference hosted a wide range of talks on topics ranging from insect navigation to visual illusions, facial recognition and binocular coding. The Saturday evening saw a special event where delegates explored the sensory properties of a range of single-malt whiskies. Here, we present a selection of abstracts for the various talks and posters. Full article
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