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The effect of cellphone position on driving & gaze behaviour

Turnbull, P.R.K., Khanal, S. & Dakin, S.C. Scientific Reports, 11(1):7692

Strengthening Indigenous Eye Care in Australia & New Zealand Through a ‘Leaders in Indigenous Optometry Education Network’

Bentley SA, Anstice N, Armitage J, Booth J, Dakin S, Fitzpatrick G, Keay L, McKendrick A. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health

The effect of simulated visual field loss on optokinetic nystagmus

Doustkouhi, S.M., Turnbull, P.R.K. & Dakin, S.C. Translational Vision Science & Technology, 8(1):16

The effect of refractive error on optokinetic nystagmus

Doustkouhi, S.M., Turnbull, P.R.K. & Dakin, S.C. Sci Rep 10, 20062 (2020).

Evaluation of vision screening in 5-15 year-old children in three Tongan schools: comparison of The Auckland Optotypes and Lea Symbols

Hamm, L., Langridge, F., Black, J., Anstice, N., Vuki, M., Fakakovikaetau, T., Grant, C. & Dakin, S.C. Clinical & Experimental Optometry

A comparison of tests for quantifying sensory eye dominance

Bossi, M., Hamm, L., Dahlmann-Noor, A. & Dakin, S.C. Vision Research 153, 60-69

Prior object knowledge shapes early visual feature-detectors by top-down modulation

Teufel, C., Dakin, S.C. & Fletcher, P.C. Scientific Reports, 8(1):10853

The Auckland Optotypes: A new pictogram set for measuring recognition acuity

Hamm, L., Anstice, N.S., Yeoman, J. & Dakin, S.C. Journal of Vision, 18.

Semantic content outweighs low-level saliency in determining children's and adults' fixation of movies.

Rider, A., Coutrot, A., Pelicano, E., Dakin, S.C. & Mareschal, I. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology 166, 293-309

Comparing averaging limits for social cues over space and time

Florey, J., Dakin, S.C. & Mareschal, I. , Journal of Vision, 17(9), 1-13

Binocular therapy for childhood amblyopia improves vision without breaking interocular suppression

Bossi, M., Anderson, E.A., Greenwood, J.A., Bex, P.J., Tailor, V., Dahlmann-Noor, A. & Dakin, S.C. Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science, 58, 3031-43

Visual integration of direction and orientation information in autistic children

Manning, C., Tibber, M.S. & Dakin, S.C. Autism and Developmental Language Impairments, 2, 1-16

Visual population receptive fields in people with schizophrenia have reduced inhibitory surrounds

Anderson, E.J., Tibber, M.S., Schwarzkopf, D.S., Shergill, S.S., Rees, G. & Dakin, S.C. Journal of Neuroscience, 37, 1546-1556

Relationship between psychophysical measures of retinal ganglion cell density and in vivo measures of cone density in glaucoma

Matlach, J., Mullholland, P.J., Cilkova, M., Chopra, R., Shah, N., Redmond, T., Dakin, S.C., Garway-Heath, D.F. and Anderson, R.S. Ophthalmology, 124, 310-19

Similar contrast sensitivity functions measured using psychophysics and optokinetic nystagmus

Turnbull, P.R.K. & Dakin, S.C. Scientific Reports, 6: 34514

Spatial limitations in averaging social cues

Florey, J., Clifford, C.W.G., Dakin, S.C. & Mareschal, I. Scientific Reports, 6: 32210.

Adaptable history biases in human perceptual decisions

Abrahamyan, A., Silva, L., Dakin, S.C., Carandini, M., and Gardner J. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, 113 (25)

Visual acuity loss in patients with age-related macular degeneration, measured using a novel high-pass letter chart

Shah, N., Dakin, S.C., Dobinson, S., Tufail, A., Egan, C.A. and Anderson, R.S. British Journal of Ophthalmology 100, 1346–1352

Spatial-frequency dependent binocular imbalance in amblyopia

Kwon, MY, Wiecek, E., Dakin, S.C., and Bex, P.J. Scientific Reports, 5, 17181

Peripheral processing of gaze,

Florey, J., Clifford, C.W.G., Dakin, S.C. & Mareschal, I. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 41(4):1084-94

Enhanced integration of motion information in children with autism

Manning, C., Dakin, S.C., Tibber, M. & Pellicano, E. J Neuroscience, 35, 6979-86

Prevalence, patterns and repeatability of metamorphopsia in macular disease: A statistical analysis of 7,106 Amsler Grids

Wiecek, E., Lashkari, K., Dakin, S.C. & Bex, P.J. Ophthalmology 122(2): 431–433

Local and global limits on visual processing in schizophrenia.

Tibber, M.S., Anderson, E.J., Bobin, T., Carlin, P., Shergill, S.S. & Dakin, S.C. PLOS One, 10(2): e0117951

Metamorphopsia and letter recognition

Wiecek, E., Dakin,S.C. & Bex, P.J. Journal of Vision, 14(14):1, 1-10

Novel quantitative assessment of metamorphopsia in maculopathy

Wiecek, E., Lashkari, K., Dakin, S.C.& Bex, P.J. Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science, 56(1):494-504

Visual numerosity acuity is not a unique psychophysical predictor of mathematical ability.

M.S. Tibber, G.S. Manasseh R.C. Clarke,G. Gagin, S.N. Swanbeck, B. Butterworth, R.B. Lotto & S.C. Dakin, Vision Research, 89, 1-9

Orientation-crowding within contours

J.C. Glen & S.C. Dakin, Journal of Vision, 13(8): 14,

Reduced crowding & poor contour detection in schizophrenia are consistent with weak surround inhibition

V.Robol, E.J. Anderson, M.S. Tibber, T. Bobin, P. Carlin, S.S. Shergill & S.C. Dakin, PLOS One, 8 (4), e60951, 1-11.

Visual acuity, crowding, and binocularity are linked in children with and without amblyopia

J.A. Greenwood, V.K. Tailor, J. Sloper, A.J. Simmers, P.J. Bex, and S.C. Dakin, Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science

53 (12),  7655-7665,

Effects of peripheral visual field loss on eye movements during visual search

E. Wiecek, L. Pasquale, J. Fiser, S.C. Dakin & P.J. Bex Frontiers in Perception Science,

Effect of optical defocus on detection and recognition of vanishing optotype letters in the fovea and periphery

N. Shah, S.C. Dakin, & R.S. Anderson, Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science,

Visual search with image modification in age-related macular degeneration

E. Wiecek, M.L. Jackson, S.C. Dakin & P.J. Bex Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science,

Contour integration, context and crowding

V. Robol, C. Casco & S.C. Dakin
Journal of Vision 12(7): 3,

Number and density discrimination rely on a common metric: Similar psychophysical effects of size, contrast, and divided attention

M.S. Tibber, J.A. Greenwood & S.C. Dakin

Journal of Vision, 12(6): 8,

The neural correlates of crowding-induced changes in appearance

E.J. Anderson, Steven C. Dakin, D. Samuel Schwartzkopf, G. Rees & J. Greenwood

Current Biology,22, 1-8

Detection and discrimination of vanishing optotype letters in central and peripheral vision

S. Demirel, R.S. Anderson, S.C. Dakin, L.N. Thibos

Vision Research, ,59, 9-16 

Crowding following binding of feature and position

J.. Greenwood, P.J. Bex &, S.C. Dakin

Journal of Vision, 12(3): 18,

The clinical translation of a measure of gain control: the contrast-contrast effect task

D.M. Barch, C.C. Carter, S.C. Dakin, J. Gold, S. J. Luck, A MacDonald III, J.D. Ragland, S. Silverstein & M.E. Strauss, Schizophrenia Bulletin, 38(1): pp135-43

Clinical, functional, and intertask correlations of measures developed by the cognitive neuroscience test reliability and clinical applications for schizophrenia consortium

J.M. Gold, D.M. Barch, C.C. Carter, S.C. Dakin, J. Gold, S. J. Luck, A MacDonald III, J.D. Ragland, C. Ranganath, I. Kovacs, S.M. Silverstein & M.E. Strauss, Schizophrenia Bulletin, 38(1):144-52.,

A common perceptual metric for human discrimination of number and density

S.C. Dakin, M. Tibber, J.A. Greenwood, F.A.A. Kingdom & M.J. Morgan, PNAS, 108(49), pp19552-19557

Crowding is tuned for perceived (not physical) location

S.C. Dakin, J.A. Greenwood, T.A. Carlson & P.J. Bex

Journal of Vision, 11(9): 2

Psychophysical Measures of Visual Acuity in Autism Spectrum Conditions

T. Tavassoli, K. Latham, M. Bach, S.C. Dakin, A. Vincente-Grabovetsky & S. Baron-Cohen

Vision Research, 51(15): pp1778-80

Quantifying “the aperture problem” for judgments of motion direction in natural scenes

D.Kane, P.J. Bex & S.C. Dakin

Journal of Vision, 11(3): 25

Vanishing optotype letter acuity: Repeatability and effect of the number of alternatives

N.Shah, S.C. Dakin,, T. Redmond & R.S. Anderson.

Ophthalmic and Physiological Optics, 31, 17-22

Horizontal information drives the specific signatures of face processing

V.Goffaux & S.C. Dakin

Frontiers in Perception Science, 1:143

Anisotropies in judging the direction of moving natural scenes

S.C. Dakin, D. Apthorp, & D. Alais 

Journal of Vision, 10(11): 5

Probabilistic, positional averaging predicts object-level crowding effects with letter-like stimuli

S.C. Dakin, J. Cass, J.A. Greenwood & P.J. Bex

Journal of Vision,  10(10):14, pp1-16

Crowding changes appearance

J.A. Greenwood, P.J. Bex & S.C. Dakin

Current Biology, 20, 496-501.

The utility of image descriptions in the initial stages of vision: a case study of printed text

R.J. Watt & S.C. Dakin 

British Journal of Psychology

Monocular signals in human lateral geniculate nucleus reflect the Craik–Cornsweet–O'Brien effect

E. Anderson, S.C. Dakin & G. Rees

Journal of Vision,  9(12):14, pp1-18

Dissociable effects of attention and crowding on orientation averaging

S.C. Dakin , P.J. Bex, J. Cass & R.J. Watt

Journal of Vision, 9(11):28, pp1-16

VISION: Thinking Globally, Acting Locally

Current Biology,19, ppR851-4.

The aperture problem in contoured stimuli

D. Kane, P.J. Bex & S.C. Dakin 

Journal of Vision,, 9(10):13, pp1-17

Contrast sensitivity in natural scenes depends on edge and spatial frequency structure

P.J. Bex, S.G. Solomon & S.C. Dakin 

Journal of Vision, 9(10):1, pp1-19

Regarding “Eagle-Eyed Visual Acuity: An Experimental Investigation of Enhanced Perception in Autism”

M. Bach & S.C. Dakin 

Biological Psychiatry, 66(10), pp19-20

Psychophysical evidence for a non-linear representation of facial identity

S.C. Dakin & D. Omigie

Vision Research, 49, pp2285-2296

Positional averaging explains crowding with letter-like stimuli

J.A. Greenwood, P.J. Bex & S.C. Dakin 

PNAS, 106(31), pp13130-13135

Context influences contour integration

S.C. Dakin & N.J. Baruch

Journal of Vision, 9(2):13, pp1-13

Biological “bar codes” in human faces

S.C. Dakin & R.J. Watt

Journal of Vision, 9(4):2, pp1-10

Deficits in local and global motion perception arising from abnormal eye movements

M.M. Neveu, G. Jeffrey, A.T. Moore & S.C. Dakin

Journal of Vision, 9(4):9, pp1-15

The development of an automated sentence generator for the assessment of reading speed

M.D. Crossland, Legge, G.E. & S.C. Dakin

Behavioural & Brain Function, 28, pp4-14

Sparsely distributed contours dominate extra-striate response to natural scenes

S.O. Dumoulin, S.C. Dakin & R.F. Hess

Neuroimage, 42, pp890-901

Visual perception and its impairment in schizophrenia

Butler, P.D., S.M. Silverstein & S.C. Dakin

Biological Psychiatry, 64, pp40-47

Local motion processing limits fine direction discrimination in the periphery

I Mareschal , P.J. Bex. & S.C. Dakin

Vision Research, 48, pp1719-1725

Families of models for gabor paths demonstrate the importance of spatial adjacency

R.J. Watt, T. Ledgeway & S.C. Dakin 

Journal of Vision, 8(7):23, p1-19

Visually-based temporal distortion in dyslexia

A. Johnston, A. Bruno, J. Watanabe, B. Quansah, N. Patel,  S.C. Dakin and S. Nishida

Vision Research, 48, pp1852-1858  

Illusory stimuli can be used to identify retinal blind spots

M.D. Crossland, S. C. Dakin, & P.J. Bex 

PLoS ONE, 24, e1060

Contrast gain control in natural scenes

P.J. Bex, I. Mareschal  & S.C. Dakin 

Journal of Vision, 5, p878-887

Dynamic properties of orientation discrimination assessed using classification images

I. Mareschal, S. C. Dakin, & P.J. Bex 

Proc. Nat. Acad. of Sci., USA, 103, pp5131-5136

Integration of local motion is normal in amblyopia

R. F. Hess, B. Mansouri, S. C. Dakin & H.A. Allen

Journal of the Optical Society of America A, 23, pp986-992

Flank facilitation and contour integration: Different sites

P-C Chun, R.F. Hess & S. C. Dakin

Vision Research, 46, pp3699-3706

Integration, segregation and binocular combination

Mansouri, B., Hess, R.F., Allen, H.A. & S. C. Dakin

Journal of the Optical Society of America A, 22, pp38-48.

Spatial interference among moving targets

P.J. Bex & S. C. Dakin.

Vision Research, 45, pp1385-1398.

Local and global limitations on direction integration assessed using equivalent noise analysis

S.C. Dakin , I Mareschal & P.J. Bex.

Vision Research, 45, pp3027-3049. 

Vagaries of visual perception in autism

S. C. Dakin & U Frith

Neuron, 48, pp497-507

An oblique effect for local motion: Psychophysics and natural movie statistics

S.C. Dakin , I Mareschal & P.J. Bex.

Journal of Vision, 5, p878-887

Critical band masking in optic flow

P.J. Bex. S.C. Dakin & I Mareschal

Network: Comp. in Neural System, 16, p261-284

Integration of orientation information in amblyopia

B. Mansouri, H.A. Allen, R. F. Hess, S. C. Dakin & O. Ehrt

Vision Research, 44, pp2955-2969. 

Natural image statistics mediate brightness 'filling in’

S. C. Dakin & P.J. Bex

Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, B270, pp2341-2348.

The shape and size of crowding for moving targets

P.J. Bex, S. C. Dakin. & A.J. Simmers

Vision Research, 43, pp2895-2904. 

Integration of first- and second-order orientation

Allen, H.A., Hess, R.F., Mansouri, B. & S. C. Dakin 

Journal of the Optical Society of America A, 20, pp974-986.

Motion detection and the coincidence of structure at high and low spatial frequencies

P.J. Bex & S.C. Dakin

Vision Research, 43, pp371-383.

Grouping local directional signals into moving contours

P.J. Bex, A.J. Simmers, & S.C. Dakin

Vision Research, 43, pp2141-2153.

How many positions can we perceptually encode, one or many?

R.F. Hess, G. Barnes, S.O. Dumoulin & S. C. Dakin.

Vision Research, 43, pp1575-1587. 

Reply to Wilson & Wilkinson: Evidence for global processing but no evidence for specialised detectors in the visual processing of Glass patterns

S.C. Dakin & P.J. Bex 

Vision Research, 43, pp565-566.

Theories of developmental dyslexia: insights from a multiple case study of dyslexic adults

F. Ramus, S. Rosen, S.C. Dakin, B.L. Day B, J.M. Castellote, S. White & U. Frith.

Brain, 126, pp841-865.

Role of synchrony in contour binding: Some transient doubts sustained

S.C. Dakin & P.J. Bex

Journal of the Optical Society of America A, 19, pp678-686.

Comparison of the spatial-frequency selectivity of local and global motion detectors

P.J. Bex & S.C. Dakin

Journal of the Optical Society of America A, 19, pp678-686.

What causes non-monotonic tuning of fMRI response to noisy images?

S. C. Dakin, R. F. Hess, T. Ledgeway & R.L. Achtman

Current Biology, 11, ppR476-477.

Summation of concentric orientation structure: Seeing the Glass or the window?

S.C. Dakin & P.J. Bex 

Vision Research, 42, pp 2013-2020.

Information limit on the spatial integration of local orientation signals

S.C. Dakin

Journal of the Optical Society of America A, 18, pp1016-1026.

Contour interaction in amblyopia: Scale selection

R. F. Hess, S. C. Dakin, M. Tewfik & B Brown

Vision Research, 41, pp2285-2296.

Snakes and Ladders: The role of temporal modulation in visual contour integration

P. J. Bex, A. J. Simmers, S. C. Dakin

Vision Research, 41, pp3775-3782. 

Local and global visual grouping: Tuning for spatial frequency and contrast

S. C. Dakin & P. J. Bex 

Journal of Vision, 1, pp99-111.

Sensitivity to contrast modulation depends on carrier spatial frequency and orientation

S.C. Dakin & I. Mareschal

Vision Research, 40, pp311-329

The foveal `crowding' effect: Physics or physiology?

R. F. Hess, S. C. Dakin & N. Kapoor 

Vision Research, 40, pp365-370.

The role of relative motion computation in 'direction repulsion'

S.C. Dakin & I. Mareschal

Vision Research, 40, pp833-841.

Impoverished second-order input to global linking in human vision

R. F. Hess, T. Ledgeway & S. Dakin 

Vision Research, 40, pp3309-3318. 

Contour interaction in fovea and periphery

R. F. Hess, S. C. Dakin, N. Kapoor, & M. Tewfi

Journal of the Optical Society of America A, 17, pp1516-1524 

Contour integration in the peripheral field

R.F. Hess & S.C. Dakin

Vision Research, 38, pp2867-2884

Orientation variance as a quantifier of structure in texture

S.C. Dakin

Spatial Vision, 12, pp1-30.

The interaction of first- and second-order cues to orientation

S.C. Dakin, C.B. Williams & R. F. Hess

Vision Research, 39, pp2867-2884. 

Contour integration and scale combination processes in visual edge detection

S.C. Dakin & R.F. Hess

Spatial Vision, 12, pp209-327.

Are judgements of circularity local or global?

R.F. Hess , Y-Z. Wang & S.C. Dakin

Vision Reserarch, 39, pp4354-4360 

The role of "contrast enhancement" in the detection and appearance of visual contours

R.F. Hess, S.C. Dakin & D.J. Field

Vision Research, 38, pp783-787.

The spatial region of integration for visual symmetry detection

S.C. Dakin & A.M. Herbert

Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, B265, pp659-664.

Spatial frequency tuning of visual contour extraction

S.C. Dakin & R.F. Hess

Journal of the Optical Society A, 15, pp1486-1499.

The detection of structure in Glass patterns: Psychophysics and computational models

S.C. Dakin

Vision Research, 37, pp2227-2246. 

Glass patterns: some contrast effects re-evaluated

S.C. Dakin

Perception, 26, pp253-268

The spatial mechanisms mediating symmetry perception

S.C. Dakin & R.F. Hess

Vision Research, 37, pp2915-2930. 

The computation of orientation statistics from visual texture

S.C. Dakin & R.J. Watt

Vision Research, 37, pp3181-3192. 

Absence of contour linking in peripheral vision

R.F. Hess & S.C. Dakin 

Nature, 390, pp602-604.

Detection of bilateral symmetry using spatial filters

S.C. Dakin & R.J. Watt 

Spatial Vision, 8, pp393-413.