The Estimation of Apparent Size and Depth in Stereoscopic Vision

Katori, Hiroto; Suzukawa, Kazuko

doi:10.4992/psycholres1954.5.72

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“…In their studies on size constancy, Makino (1956) and Ueno (1962) used the method of transposition to measure perceived size ratio between two discs presented at different distances in real experimental rooms, and found a power functional relationship between the perceived size and the observation distance. Katori and Suzukawa (1963) duplicated Ogasawara's (1935) phenomenological study on the effect of binocular cues on size constancy using photographic stereograms of two white balls, but used the method of transposition for measurement of perceived relative sizes of the two balls in stereoscope. After these studies, Oyama and Sato (1967) analyzed systematically the effects of convergence and binocular disparity on apparent size by means of the method of transposition in stereoscopic vision, using simple light discs.…”

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Development of psychophysics in Japan¹

Oyama¹

2008

Jpn Psychol Res

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In Japan, psychophysics began as early as 1888 with the first lecture on it given by Yujiro Motora at the Imperial University (the University of Tokyo), following the completion of his PhD, at the laboratory of G. S. Hall. In 1910, A Photographic Album of Experimental Psychology was published, which included many photographs of psychophysical experiments. In 1933, Sadaji Takagi conducted the first experiment on animal psychophysics to investigate shape constancy in small birds. In 1949, the first experiment on infant psychophysics was conducted by Jyuji Misumi to study the early development of size constancy. And, in 1955, Tadasu Oyama proposed a new psychophysical technique, naming the method of transposition to measure perceived size ratios without using numerical expressions. This method has been successfully applied to the measurement of illusions, figural after-effects, and size constancy. In 1960, Tarow Indow and his collaborators published their first systematic application of multidimensional scaling to color perception. They also applied it to study the perceptual structure of visual space. Recent developments in those topics in Japan are also reviewed.

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Development of psychophysics in Japan¹

Oyama¹

2008

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“…This study was methodologically important because it made it possible for us to control each of various depth cues independently through stereoscopic presentation. Twenty‐eight years later, Katori and Suzukawa (1963) duplicated this study more systematically and quantitatively, utilizing Oyama's (1959) method of transposition (ratio‐matching method) for the measurement of the apparent relative size of the two balls in stereoscope. After these studies, Oyama and Sato (1967), Oyama and Iwawaki (1972), and Oyama (1974) analyzed systematically the effects of convergence and binocular disparity on apparent size and distance in stereoscopic vision and their mutual relation, using simplified stimuli.…”

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Pioneering studies in the 1930s on perception: An historical background of experimental psychology in Japan¹

2005

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Some pioneering experimental studies on perception conducted by Japanese investigators in the 1930s are reviewed. The topics and investigators of these studies were optical illusions (Obonai, Morinaga), size constancy (Akishige, Ogasawara), apparent movement in vision and audition (Ogasawara, Yuki), time-space interaction (Abe, Abbe), recovery from blindness (Kuroda, Akishige), and animal perception (Takagi, Kuroda). The originality in the ideas and methods of these studies compared with Western studies in that period and their influence on recent experimental psychology in Japan are discussed.

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“…Ogasawara (1935) studied size constancy in a stereoscope, but he only analyzed subjects' verbal reports qualitatively to find effects of convergence and some other variables. Oyama and Teraoka (1955) and Katori and Suzukawa (1963) utilized a new psychophysical method, the method of transposition, developed by Oyama (1955Oyama ( , 1959 to get a quantitative measure of the perceived size-ratio between two objects seen in a stereoscope.…”

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“…In the present study, a new stereoscopic apparatus with polarizing filters and projectors was used, instead of stereoscopes with lenticular prisms used in the studies of Oyama and Teraoka (1955) and Katori and Suzukawa (1963). This new type of stereoscopic apparatus made us easier to control systematically such experimental variables as convergence angle, binocular disparity, and luminance, whose effects were examined in this study.…”

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