Doctor John Cass

Doctor John Cass

SENIOR RESEARCH LECTURER,
Social, Personal & Developmental Psychology (SoSSP

Personal

Qualifications

  • PhD University of New South Wales

UWS Organisational Unit (School / Division)

  • Social, Personal & Developmental Psychology (SoSSP

Contact

Email:J.Cass@uws.edu.au
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Location:24.1.07
Bankstown
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Biography

John was awarded his PhD in 2005 from the University of New South Wales in the area of visual psychophysics. A major research theme is sensory dynamics: such questions as how do sensory processes evolve over time; what temporal information are we sensitive to; and how do we perceive time? Other research interests include the effects of context on visual perception such as “visual crowding” and the perceptual integration of audio and visual information.

This information has been contributed by Doctor Cass.

Teaching

Previous Teaching Areas

  • 101680 Perception, 2011
  • 101680 Perception, 2012
  • 101684 Brain and Behaviour, 2011

Publications

Journal Articles

  • Cass, J., Johnson, A., Bex, P. and Alais, D. (2012), 'Orientation-specificity of adaptation: Isotropic adaptation is purely monocular', PLOS ONE, .
  • Zannoli, M., Cass, J., Mamassian, P. and Alais, D. (2012), 'Synchronized audio-visual transients drive efficient visual search for motion-in-depth', PLoS ONE, .
  • Zannoli, M., Cass, J., Alais, D. and Mamassian, P. (2012), 'Disparity-based stereomotion detectors are poorly suited to track 2D motion', Journal of Vision, 9.
  • Wardle, S., Bex, P., Cass, J. and Alais, D. (2012), 'Stereoacuity in the periphery is limited by internal noise', Journal of Vision, 12.
  • Cass, J., Johnson, A., Bex, P. and Alais, D. (2012), 'Orientation-specificity of adaptation : isotropic adaptation is purely monocular', PLOS ONE, .
  • Apthorp, D., Cass, J. and Alais, D. (2011), 'The spatial tuning of "motion streak" mechanisms revealed by masking and adaptation', Journal of Vision, 16.
  • Alais, D., Apthorp, D., Karmann, A. and Cass, J. (2011), 'Temporal integration of movement: The time-course of motion streaks revealed by masking', PLoS ONE, .
  • Cass, J., Van der Burg, E. and Alais, D. (2011), 'Finding flicker: critical differences in flicker rate capture attention', Frontiers in Perception Science, .
  • Van Der Burg, E., Cass, J., Olivers, C., Theeuwes, J. and Alais, D. (2010), 'Efficient Visual Search from Synchronized Auditory Signals Requires Transient Audiovisual Events', PLos ONE, 11.
  • Alais, D. and Cass, J. (2010), 'Multisensory Perceptual Learning of Temporal Order: Audiovisual Learning Transfers to Vision but Not Audition', PLos ONE, 9.
  • Apthorp, D., Cass, J. and Alais, D. (2010), 'Orientation tuning of contrast masking caused by motion streaks', Journal of Vision, 13.
  • Dakin, S., Cass, J., Greenwood, J. and Bex, P. (2010), 'Probabilistic, positional averaging predicts object-level crowding effects with letter-like stimuli', Journal of Vision, 16.
  • Alais, D., Cass, J., O'Shea, R. and Blake, R. (2010), 'Visual Sensitivity Underlying Changes in Visual Consciousness', Current Biology, 6.
  • Wardle, S., Cass, J., Brooks, K. and Alais, D. (2010), 'Breaking camouflage: Binocular disparity reduces contrast masking in natural images', Journal of Vision, 12.
  • Dakin, S., Watt, R., Cass, J. and Bex, P. (2009), 'Dissociable effects of attention and crowding on orientation averaging', Journal of Vision, 16.
  • Cass, J., Clifford, C., Alias, D. and Spehar, B. (2009), 'Temporal structure of chromatic channels revealed through masking', Journal of Vision, 15.
  • Cass, J., Alais, D., Spehar, B. and Bex, P. (2009), 'Temporal whitening: Transient noise perceptually equalizes the 1/f temporal amplitude spectrum', Journal of Vision, .
  • Stuit, S., Cass, J., Paffen, C. and Alais, D. (2009), 'Orientation-tuned suppression in binocular rivalry reveals general and specic components of rivalry suppression', Journal of Vision, 15.
  • Cass, J., Stuit, S., Bex, P. and Alais, D. (2009), 'Orientation bandwidths are invariant across spatiotemporal frequency after isotropic components are removed', Journal of Vision, 14.
  • Cass, J. and Alias, D. (2006), 'The mechanisms of collinear integration', Journal of Vision, 8.
  • Cass, J. and Alias, D. (2006), 'Evidence for two interacting temporal channels in visual processing', Vision Research, 10.
  • Cass, J. and Spehar, B. (2005), 'Dynamics of iso- and cross-surround facilitation suggest distinct mechanisms', Vision Research, 14.
  • Alias, D., Lorenceau, J., Arrighi, R. and Cass, J. (2005), 'Contour interactions between pairs of Gabors engaged in binocular rivalry reveal a map of the association field', Vision Research, 15.
  • Cass, J. and Spehar, B. (2005), 'Dynamics of collinear contrast facilitation are consistent with long-range horizontal striate transmission', Vision Research, 12.
  • Burke, D., Cieplucha, C., Cass, J., Russell, F. and Fry, G. (2002), 'Win-shift and win-stay learning in short beaked echidna (Tachyglossus aculeatus', Animal Cognition, 6.

Conference Papers

  • Arnold, D., Cass, J. and Alias, D. (2006), 'Mandatory integration of visual and auditory timing cues', 4th Asian Conference on Vision, Matsue, Japan.

Research

Psychophysics, sensory and perceptual processes; Time perception; Visual dynamics; Spatial vision; Multisensory integration.

This information has been contributed by Doctor Cass.

Current Projects

Title:Temporal synchrony as a binding cue between the senses [via USYD]
Years:2012-01-01 - 2014-12-31
ID:P00020677
UWS Researchers:John Cass
Funding:
  • Australian Research Council (ACRG)

Previous Projects

Title:Filters reveal what flicker conceals: temporal processing in the human visual system
Years:2010-01-13 - 2011-06-27
ID:P00018421
UWS Researchers:John Cass
Funding:
  • Australian Research Council (ACRG)
Title:Auditory facilitation of visual search; a steay state visual evoked potential investigation of neural mechanisms.
Years:2011-11-09 - 2012-11-08
ID:P00020509
UWS Researchers:Tamara Watson and John Cass
Funding:
  • University of Western Sydney

Supervision

Current Supervision

Title:Understanding Audiovisual Interaction using Behaviour and Brain Based Measures
Field of Research:

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