Donald D. Hoffman: Downloadable Publications

Donald D. Hoffman: Downloadable Publications*

D. Hoffman. The interface theory of perception: Natural selection drives true perception to swift extinction. In Object categorization: Computer and human vision perspectives, S. Dickinson, M. Tarr, A. Leonardis, B. Schiele (Eds.) Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, in press.
D. Hoffman. Conscious realism and the mind-body problem. in press, Mind & Matter.
D. Hoffman. Human vision as a reality engine. in press, FABBS.

J. Pyles, J. Garcia, D. Hoffman, E. Grossman. Visual perception and neural correlates of novel `biological motion'. in press, Vision Research.

D. Hoffman. A spoon is like a headache. In What is your dangerous idea? Today's leading thinkers on the unthinkable. John Brockman (Ed.) New York: HarperCollins, 2007, 211–213. Related article in Chicago Sun-Times.

D. Hoffman. Images as interstellar messages. In Between worlds: The art and science of interstellar message composition, Doug Vakoch (Ed.) Cambridge: MIT Press.
D. Hoffman. Sensory experiences as cryptic symbols of a multi-modal user interface. Kunst und Kognition, in press.
D. Hoffman. The Scrambling Theorem: A simple proof of the logical possibility of spectrum inversion. Consciousness and Cognition, 2006, 15, 31–45.
D. Hoffman. The Scrambling Theorem unscrambled: A response to commentaries. Consciousness and Cognition, 2006, 15, 51–53.
D. Hoffman. Mimesis and its perceptual reflections. In W. Pape (ed.) A View in the Rear-Mirror: Romantic Aesthetics, Culture, and Science Seen from Today. Festschrift for Frederick Burwick on the Occasion of His Seventieth Birthday. Trier: WVT, Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, 2006 (Studien zur Englischen Romantik. 3). 201–209.
D. Hoffman. Consciousness is fundamental. In What we believe but cannot prove: Today's leading thinkers on science in the age of certainty, J. Brockman (Ed.) New York: HarperCollins and London: Free Press, 2005, 93–96.
D. Hoffman. Visual illusions and perception. In 2005 McGraw-Hill Yearbook of Science & Technology.
R. Sneddon, W. R. Shankle, J. Hara, A. Rodriquez, D. Hoffman, U. Saha. EEG detection of early Alzheimer's disease using psychophysical tasks. Clinical EEG Neuroscience, 2005, 36, 141–150. R. Sneddon, W. R. Shankle, J. Hara, A. Rodriquez, D. Hoffman, U. Saha.
D. Hoffman. Kann man Gott abschreiben? In Im Anfang war Kein Gott: Naturwissenschaftliche und theologische Perspektiven, Tobias Daniel Wabbel (Ed.) 2004, Duesseldorf: Patmos. Pages 166–174.
D. Hoffman, M. Singh. Vision: Form perception. In L. Nadel (Ed.) Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science, Volume 4, 2003, 486–490. London: Macmillan Publishers Limited.
D. Hoffman. Does perception replicate the external world? Commentary in Behavioral & Brain Sciences, 2003, 26, 415–416.
T. Davies, D. Hoffman. Facial attention and spacetime fragments. Axiomathes, 2003, 13, 303–327.
D. Hoffman. An internalist account of colour. Commentary in Colour: Mind and the Physical World, D. Heyer and R. Mausfeld (Eds.) 2003, Oxford University Press, 435–436.
D. Hoffman. Colour construction. Commentary in Colour: Mind and the Physical World, D. Heyer and R. Mausfeld (Eds.) 2003, Oxford University Press, 273–274.
D. Hoffman. The interaction of colour and Motion. In Colour: Mind and the Physical World, D. Heyer and R. Mausfeld (Eds.) 2003, Oxford University Press, 361–377.
T. Davies, D. Hoffman. Psychophysical studies of expressions of pain. Commentary in Behavioral Brain Sciences, 2002, 25, 458–459.
D. Wollschlaeger, A.M. Rodriguez, D.D. Hoffman. Flank transparency: The effects of gaps, line spacing, and apparent motion. Perception, 2002, 31, 1073–1092.
T. Davies, D. Hoffman. Reality check: Insights from cognitive science. Topic, 2002, 1, 2, 102–105.
T. Davies, D. Hoffman. Attention to faces: A change-blindness study. Perception, 2002, 31, 9, 1123–1146.
T. Davies, D. Hoffman, A. Rodriguez. Visual worlds: Construction or reconstruction? Journal of Consciousness Studies, 2002, 9, 72–87.
B. Bennett, D. Hoffman, C. Prakash. Perception and evolution. In Perception and the Physical World: Psychological and Philosophical Issues in Perception, D. Heyer and R. Mausfeld (Eds.) 2002, Chichester, UK: Wiley, pp. 229–245.
W. Prophet, D. Hoffman, C. Cicerone. Contours from apparent motion: A computational theory. In From fragments to objects: Segmentation and grouping in vision P. Kellman and T. Shipley (Eds), 2001, Elsevier Science, pp. 509–530.
M. Singh, D. Hoffman. Part-based representations of visual shape and implications for visual cognition. In From fragments to objects: Segmentation and grouping in vision P. Kellman and T. Shipley (Eds), 2001, Elsevier Science, pp. 401–459.
D. Wollschlaeger, A. Rodriguez, D. Hoffman. Flank transparency: Transparent filters seen in dynamic two-color displays. Perception, 2001, 30, 1423–1426.
D. Hoffman. Mereology of visual form. Proceedings of the Fourth International Workshop on Visual Form, Capri, Italy 2001, 40–50.
D. Hoffman. The data problem for color objectivism. Commentary in Consciousness and Cognition, 2001, 10, 74–77.
C. Fidopiastis, D.D. Hoffman, W.D. Prophet, M. Singh. Constructing surfaces and contours in displays of color from motion: The role of nearest neighbors and maximal disks. Perception, 2000, 29, 567–580.
M. Albert, D. Hoffman. The generic-viewpoint assumption and illusory contours. Perception, 2000, 29, 303–312.
M. Singh, D. Hoffman. Perception, inference, and the veridicality of natural constraints. Commentary in Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 1999, 22, 395–396.
M. Singh, D. Hoffman, M. Albert. Contour completion and relative depth: Petter’s rule and support ratio. Psychological Science, 1999, 10, 423–428.
M. Singh, D. Hoffman. Completing visual contours: The relationship between relatability and minimizing inflections. Perception & Psychophysics, 1999, 61, 943–951.
M. Singh, G. Seyranian, D. Hoffman. Parsing silhouettes: The short-cut rule. Perception & Psychophysics, 1999, 61, 636–660.
M. Singh, D. Hoffman. Active vision and the basketball problem. Commentary in Behavioral & Brain Sciences, 1998, 21, 772–773.
M. Singh, D. Hoffman. Part boundaries alter the perception of transparency. Psychological Science, 1998, 9, 370–378.
D. Hoffman. Visual intelligence: How we create what we see. 1998, W.W. Norton & Co.
C. Cicerone, D. Hoffman. Color from motion: Dichoptic activation and a possible role in breaking camouflage. Perception, 1997, 26, 1367–1380.
M. Singh, D. Hoffman. Constructing and representing visual objects. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 1997, 1, 98-102.
D. Hoffman, M. Singh. Salience of visual parts. Cognition, 1997, 63, 29–78.
D. Hoffman. What do we mean by the structure of the world? In D. Knill and W. Richards (Eds) Perception as Bayesian inference, 1996, Cambridge University Press, pp. 219–221.
B. Bennett, D. Hoffman, C. Prakash, S. Richman. Observer theory, Bayes theory, and psychophysics. In D. Knill and W. Richards (Eds) Perception as Bayesian inference, 1996, Cambridge University Press, pp. 163–212.
M. Albert, D. Hoffman. Genericity in spatial vision. In D. Luce, K. Romney, D. Hoffman, & M. D’Zmura (Eds.), Geometric Representations of Perceptual Phenomena: Articles in Honor of Tarow Indow’s 70th Birthday. 1995, Erlbaum, New York, pp. 95–112.
C. Cicerone, D. Hoffman, P. Gowdy, J. Kim. The perception of color from motion. Perception & Psychophysics, 1995, 57(6), 761–777.
B. Bennett, D. Hoffman. Inferring 3D structure from three points in rigid motion. Journal of Mathematical Imaging and Vision, 1994, 4, 401–406.
J. Liter, M. Braunstein, D. Hoffman. Detection of one versus two objects in structure from motion. Journal of the Optical Society of America, A, 1994, 11, 3162–3166.
A. Saidpour, M. Braunstein, D. Hoffman. Interpolation Across Surface Discontinuities in Structure-from-motion. Perception & Psychophysics, 1994, 55, 611–622.
J. Liter, M. Braunstein, D. Hoffman. Inferring structure from motion in two-view and multi-view displays. Perception, 1993, 22, 1441–1465.
B. Bennett, D. Hoffman, J. Kim, S. Richman. Inferring 3D structure from image motion: The constraint of Poinsot motion. Journal of Mathematical Imaging and Vision, 1993, 3, 143–166.
B. Bennett, D. Hoffman, R. Kakarala. Modeling performance in observer theory. Journal of Mathematical Psychology, 1993, 37, 2, 220–240.
D. Hoffman. No perception without representation. Commentary in Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 1993, 16, 2, 247–247.
B. Bennett, D. Hoffman, P. Murthy. Lebesgue logic for probabilistic reasoning and some applications to perception. Journal of Mathematical Psychology, 1993, 37, 1, 63–103.
B. Bennett, D. Hoffman, C. Prakash. Recognition polynomials. Journal of the Optical Society of America, A, 1993, 10, 4, 759–764.
C. Cicerone, D. Hoffman. Dynamic neon colors: Perceptual evidence for parallel visual pathways. In Advances in color vision, Optical Society of America 1992 Technical Digest Series, Volume 4, 66–68.

M. Albert, D. Hoffman. Perception is no accident. Optics & Photonics News, 1992, 3 (9), 50–51.
M. Albert, D. Hoffman. Topological factors in neon color spreading. In Advances in color vision, Optical Society of America 1992 Technical Digest Series, Volume 4, 158–160.
A. Saidpour, M. Braunstein, D. Hoffman. Interpolation in structure from motion. Perception & Psychophysics, 1992, 51 (2), 105–117.
D. Hoffman. Vision. 1992 McGraw-Hill Yearbook of Science and Technology, 1992, 487–489.
B. Bennett, D. Hoffman, C. Prakash. Unity of perception. Cognition, 1991, 38, 295–334.
M. Braunstein, D. Hoffman, F. Pollick. Discriminating rigid from nonrigid motion: Minimum points and views. Perception & Psychophysics, 1990, 47, 3, 205–214.
M. Braunstein, D. Hoffman, A. Saidpour. Parts of visual objects: An experimental test of the minima rule. Perception, 1989, 18, 817–826.
B. Bennett, D. Hoffman, J. Nicola, C. Prakash. Structure from two orthographic views of rigid motion. Journal of the Optical Society of America, A, 1989, 6, 1052–1069.
Bennett, D. Hoffman, J. Nicola, C. Prakash. Inferring structure from motion: A homotopy algorithm. Proceedings of the IEEE Workshop on Visual Motion, Irvine, 1989, 238–245. B.
B. Bennett, D. Hoffman, C. Prakash. Observer Mechanics: A formal theory of perception. 1989, Academic Press, New York.
D. Hoffman, B. Bennett. Perceptual representations: Meaning and truth conditions. In Cognition and representation, S. Schiffer and S. Steele (Eds), Westview Press, Boulder, 1988, 87–128.
B. Bennett, D. Hoffman. Shape decompositions for visual shape recognition: The role of transversality. In Image Understanding, W. Richards (Ed), Ablex Publishing Company, New Jersey, 1987, 215–256.
M. Braunstein, D. Hoffman, L. Shapiro, G. Andersen, B. Bennett. Minimum points and views for the recovery of three-dimensional structure. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 1987, 13, 335–343.
B. Bennett, D. Hoffman, C. Prakash. Perception and computation. IEEE First International Conference on Computer Vision, London, 1987, 356–364.
W. Richards, J. Koenderink, D. Hoffman. Inferring three-dimensional shapes from two-dimensional silhouettes. Journal of the Optical Society of America, A, 1987, 4, 1168–1175.
J. Beusmans, D. Hoffman, B. Bennett. Description of solid shape and its inference from occluding contours. Journal of the Optical Society of America, A, 1987, 4, 1155–1167.
D. Hoffman, B. Bennett. The computation of structure from fixed-axis motion: Rigid structures. Biological Cybernetics, 1986, 54, 71–83.
S. Reuman, D. Hoffman. Regularities of nature: The interpretation of visual motion. In From Pixels to Predicates: Recent Advances in Computational Vision, A. Pentland (Ed), Ablex Publishing Company, New Jersey, 1986, 201–226.
W. Richards, D. Hoffman. Codon constraints on closed 2-D shapes. Computer Vision, Graphics, and Image Processing, 1985, 31, 265–281.
D. Hoffman, B. Bennett. Inferring the relative 3-D positions of two moving points. Journal of the Optical Society of America A, 2, 350–353.
B. Bennett, D. Hoffman. The computation of structure from fixed-axis motion: Nonrigid structures. Biological Cybernetics, 1985, 51, 293–300.
D. Hoffman, W. Richards. Parts of recognition. Cognition, 1984, 18, 65–96.
D. Hoffman. The interpretation of visual illusions. Scientific American, 1983, 249, 6, 154–162.
D. Hoffman, B. Flinchbaugh. The interpretation of biological motion. Biological Cybernetics, 1982, 42, 3, 197–204.
W. Richards, J. Rubin, D. Hoffman. Equation counting and the interpretation of sensory data. Perception, 1982, 11, 557–576.

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