Dr Piers Douglas Howe
Academic profile

Dr Piers Douglas Howe
MPhys, PhD
Senior Lecturer
Research area
Cognitive psychology and behavioural neuroscience
Key research questions
How does visual attention work? What are its limitations?
How does one attend to multiple objects simultanously?
How does one search for a particular object in the visual scene?
How does one detect a change to a scene?
Publications
Hudson C, Howe PD & Little DR (2012). Hemifield effects in multiple identity tracking. PLoS One. 7(8). Download pdf
Howe PD, Incledon NC & Little DR (2012). Can attention be confined to just part of a moving object? Revisiting target-distractor merging in multiple object tracking. PLoS One. 7(7). Download pdf
Bowers AR, Anastasio RJ, Howe PD, O’Connor MG, Hollis AM, Kapust LR, Bronstad PM & Horowitz TS. (2011) Dynamic attention as a predictor of driving performance in clinical populations: preliminary results. Proceedings of the 6th International Driving Symposium on Human Factors in Driver Assessment, Training and Vehicle Design. Lake Tahoe, CA. 307-313. Download pdf
Cohen MA, Pinto Y, Howe PDL & Horowitz TS (2011). The what-where trade-off in multiple-identity tracking. Attention, Perception and Psychophysics, 73(5), 1422-1434. Download pdf
Howe PDL, Drew T, Pinot Y & Horowitz TS (2011). Remapping attention in multiple object tracking. Vision Research, 51(5), 489-95. Download pdf
Howe PDL, Pinto Y & Horowitz TS (2010). The coordinate systems used in visual tracking. Vision Research, 50, 2375-2380. Download pdf
Evans KK, Horowitz TS, Howe PD, Pedersini R, Kuzmova Y, Reijnen E, Pinto Y & Wolfe JM (2010) Visual Attention. In Nadel L (Ed) Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Cognitive Science. John Wiley & Sons Ltd. Download pdf
Pinto Y, Howe PD, Cohen MA & Horowitz TS. (2010). The more often you see it, the easier it becomes to track. Journal of Vision, 10(10). Download pdf
Howe PD, Cohen MA, Pinto Y & Horowitz TS. (2010). Distinguishing between parallel and serial accounts of multiple object tracking. Journal of Vision, 10(8). Download pdf
Howe PD, Livingstone MS, Morocz I & Horowitz TS. (2009). An fMRI investigation into multiple object tracking. Journal of Vision, 9(4). Download pdf
Howe PD (2009). Neglect and Balint's syndrome. Encyclopedia for Consciousness. Elsevier, UK. Download pdf
Hubel, DH, Howe PD, Duffy, AM & Hernandez, A (2009). Scotopic foveal afterimages. Perception, 38(2), 313-316. Download pdf
Howe PD, Evans KK, Pedersini R, Horowitz TS, Wolfe JM, & Cohen M (2009). Attention: Selective Attention and Consciousness. Encyclopedia for Consciousness. Elsevier, UK. Download pdf
Howe PD, Horowitz TS & Wolfe JM (2008). Transient signals per se do not disrupt the flash-lag effect. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 31(2), 206. Download pdf
Howe PD, Sagreiya H, Curtis DL, Zheng CC & Livingstone MS. (2008). The double-anchoring theory of lightness perception: A comment on Bressan (2006). Psychological Review, 114(4), 1105-9. Download pdf
Howe PD & Livingstone MS. (2007). The use of the cancellation technique to quantify the Hermann grid illusion. PLoS ONE, 2(2): e265, 1-4. Download pdf
Howe PD, Thompson PG, Anstis SM, Sagreiya H & Livingstone MS. (2006). Explaining the Footsteps, Bellydancer, Wenceslas and Kickback Illusions. Journal of Vision, 6, 12(5), 1396-1405. Download pdf
Howe PD & Livingstone MS (2006). End-stopping and the stereo aperture problem in macaque V1. Cerebral Cortex, 16(9), 1332-1337. Download pdf
Howe PD (2006). Testing the coplanar ratio hypothesis of lightness perception. Perception, 35(3), 291-301. Download pdf
Howe PD (2005). White’s effect: removing the junctions but preserving the strength of the illusion. Perception, 34(5), 557-564. Download pdf
Grossberg S & Howe PD (2003). A laminar cortical model of stereopsis and three-dimensional surface perception. Vision Research, 43, 801-829. Download pdf
Howe PD & Watanabe T (2003). Measuring the depth induced by an opposite-luminance (but not anti-correlated) stereogram. Perception, 32(4), 415-21. Download pdf
Howe PD (2003). Cortical mechanisms of depth and lightness perception. Neural models and psychophysical experiments. PhD Dissertation, Boston University.
Howe PD, & Watanabe T (2002). Measuring the depth perception invoked by a simple, sustained, polarity-reversed stereogram. Boston University Technical Report CAS/CNS-02-004.
Grossberg S & Howe PD (2002). A laminar cortical model of stereopsis and three-dimensional surface perception. Boston University Technical Report CAS/CNS-02-2002.
Howe PD (2001). A comment on the Anderson (1997), the Todorovic (1997), and the Ross and Pessoa (2000) explanations of White's effect. Perception, 30(8), 1023-1026. Download pdf
Howe PD (2000). A comment on Anderson’s and Todorovic’s explanations of White’s effect. Boston University Technical Report CAS/CNS-2000-15.
Supervising interests
Visual Perception, Visual Attention, Object Tracking, Visual Search, Change Blindness, Mathematical Modelling, Lightness, Motion Perception, Decision Making, Consumer Behaviour
Teaching into
Perception, Memory and Cognition
Models of Psychological Processes
Associations
Academic Editor PLoS ONE
Review Editor Frontiers in Perception Science
Member Vision Sciences Society
Current grants
2012 NHMRC/ARC Melbourne Research Grant Support Scheme
2012 Research Collaboration Grant, University of Melbourne
2011 Early Career Research Grant, University of Melbourne
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