Perceptual Neuroscience Laboratory

Three-Dimensional Shape Perception

Shape from Texture

1. Meng, X. and Zaidi, Q. Visual effects of haptic feedback are large but local. PloS one, 6 (5): e19877 1-6, 2011
2. Li, A. and Zaidi, Q. Release from cross-orientation suppression facilitates 3D shape perception. PloS one, 4 (12): 1-6, 2009
3. Li, A.; Tzen, B.; Yadgarova, A. and Zaidi, Q. Neural basis of 3-D shape aftereffects. Vision Research, 48 (2): 244-52, 2008
4. Zaidi, Q. and Li, A. Three-dimensional shape perception from chromatic orientation flows. Visual Neuroscience, 23 (3-4): 323-30, 2006
5. Li, A. and Zaidi, Q. Three-dimensional shape from non-homogeneous textures : Carved and stretched surfaces. Journal of Vision, 4 (10): 860-878, 2004
6. Li, A. and Zaidi, Q. Perception of 3D shape from homogeneous and non-homogeneous surface textures Human Vision and Electronic Imaging IX, 5292: 307-321, 2004
7. Li, A. and Zaidi, Q. Observer strategies in perception of 3-D shape from isotropic textures: developable surfaces. Vision Research, 43 (26): 2741-2758, 2003
8. Zaidi, Q. and Li, A. Limitations on shape information provided by texture cues. Vision Research, 42 (7): 815-35, 2002
9. Li, A. and Zaidi, Q. Information limitations in perception of shape from texture. Vision Research, 41 (12): 1519-33, 2001
10. Li, A. and Zaidi, Q. Perception of three-dimensional shape from texture is based on patterns of oriented energy. Vision Research, 40 (2): 217-42, 2000

3D Shape Illusions

1. Cohen, E. H. and Zaidi, Q. The oblique effect and three-dimensional shape Visual Cognition, 15: 80-83, 2007
2. Cohen, E. H and Zaidi, Q. Fundamental failures of shape constancy resulting from cortical anisotropy. The Journal of Neuroscience, 27 (46): 12540-5, 2007
3. Zaidi, Q A sculpture technique for rendering complex impossible objects. Perception, 34: 121-132, 2005
4. Zaidi, Q. and Griffiths, A. F. Generic assumptions shared by visual perception and imagery. Brain and Behavioral Sciences, 25: 215-216, 2002
5. Griffiths, A. F. and Zaidi, Q. Perceptual assumptions and projective distortions in a three-dimensional shape illusion. Perception, 29 (2): 171-200, 2000

Shape from Motion

1. Zaidi, Q.; Jain, A. and Meng, X. Perception of Non-rigid 3-D Shapes, in The Oxford Handbook of Computational Perceptual Organization, (Invited)., 2013
2. Jain, A. and Zaidi, Q. Discerning nonrigid 3D shapes from motion cues. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 108 (4): 1663-8, 2011