Associate Professor
E-Mail: rpatter@mail.wsu.edu
Phone: (509) 335-8427
The broad interest of my laboratory is to understand the functional
properties and organization of the visual mechanisms mediating
stereoscopic (binocular) depthperception and motion perception in human
observers. My laboratory employs psychophysical and behavioral methods
to investigate depth and motion processing. Currently, we are
investigating higher-order motion perception from stereoscopic cues, the
processing of which occurs beyond the site of binocular integration in
the visual system. Related interests include human factors of
stereoscopic displays.
Biographical Information
Robert Patterson, Associate Professor, completed his B.A. in behavioral
science and his M.A. in psychology at San Jose State University in 1976
and 1978, respectively, and his Ph.D. in experimental psychology at
Vanderbilt University in 1984. He was a postdoctoral fellow in visual
neuroscience at the Cresap Neuroscience Laboratory, Northwestern
University from 1985 to 1987, and has been at Washington State
University since 1991.
Selected Publications
Patterson, R. (1999) A review of stereoscopic (cyclopean) motion
sensing. Vision Research, 39, 3329-3345.
Bowd, C., Donnelly, M., Shorter, S. &
Patterson, R. (2000) Cross-domain
adaptation reveals that a common mechanism computes stereoscopic
(cyclopean) and luminance plaid motion. Vision Research, 40, 331-339.
Patterson, R., Shorter, S. Bowd, C., Freudenberg, R. & Becker, S. (2000)
Exposure duration affects the perceived direction of cyclopean
(stereoscopic) Type II plaid patterns. Vision Research, 40, 3201-3207.
Shorter, S. &
Patterson, R. (2001) The cyclopean (stereoscopic) motion
aftereffect is dependent upon the temporal frequency of adapting motion.
Vision Research, in press.
Patterson, R., Shorter, S. Bassetti, T. & Tamura, E. Nulling of
adaptation induced by stereoscopic global motion: Evidence for cyclopean
gain control and cancellation of local stereoscpic motion signals.
Submitted to Vision Research.
