Selected Publications

Myron L. Braunstein


Braunstein, M. L. (1962). Depth perception in rotating dot patterns. Journal of Experimental Psychology, 64, 415-420.

Braunstein, M. L. (1962). The perception of depth through motion. Psychological Bulletin, 59, 422-433.

Braunstein, M. L., & White, W. J. (1962). Effects of acceleration on brightness discrimination. Journal of the Optical Society of America, 52, 931-933.

Braunstein, M. L., & Siegfried, J. B. (1963). Effect of body position on brightness discrimination. Journal of the Optical Society of America, 53, 1114.

Been, R. T., & Braunstein, M. L. (1964). Effect of injury information on damage estimates. Human Factors, 6, 475-477.

Braunstein, M. L., & Laughery, K. R. (1964). Detection of vehicle velocity changes during expressway driving. Human Factors, 6, 327-331.

Braunstein, M. L., Been, R. T., & Piazza, Mildred H. (1965). A rating scale for damage evaluation. Human Factors, 7, 71-73.

Braunstein, M. L. (1966). Interaction of flicker and apparent movement. Journal of the Optical Society of America, 56, 835-836.

Braunstein, M. L. (1966). Sensitivity of the observer to transformations of the visual field. Journal of Experimental Psychology, 72, 683-687.

Braunstein, M. L., & Coleman, O. F. (1967). An information-processing model of the aircraft accident investigator. Human Factors, 9, 61-70.

Braunstein, M. L. (1968). Motion and texture as sources of slant information. Journal of Experimental Psychology, 78, 247-253.

Braunstein, M. L., & Payne, J. W. (1968). Perspective and the rotating trapezoid. Journal of the Optical Society of America, 58, 399-403.

Braunstein, M. L., & Payne, J. W. (1969). Perspective and form ratio as determinants of relative slant judgments. Journal of Experimental Psychology, 81, 584-590.

Braunstein, M. L. (1971). Perception of rotation in figures with rectangular and trapezoidal features. Journal of Experimental Psychology, 91, 25-29.

Payne, J. W., & Braunstein, M. L. (1971). Preferences among gambles with equal underlying distributions. Journal of Experimental Psychology, 87, 13-18.

Braunstein, M. L. (1972). Perception of rotation in depth: A process model. Psychological Review, 79, 510-524.

Braunstein, M. L. (1976). Depth perception through motion. New York: Academic Press.

Braunstein, M. L. (1977). Minimal conditions for the perception of rotary motion. Scandinavian Journal of Psychology, 18, 216-223.

Braunstein, M. L. (1977). Perceived direction of rotation of simulated three-dimensional patterns. Perception & Psychophysics, 21, 553-557.

Braunstein, M. L. (1978). Perception of motion. In E. Carterette and M. Friedman (Eds.), Handbook of perception, (Vol. VIII). New York: Academic Press.

Payne, J. W., & Braunstein, M. L. (1978). Risky choice: An examination of information acquisition behavior. Memory Cognition, 6, 554-561.

Payne, J. W., Braunstein, M. L., & Carroll, J. S. (1978). Exploring predecisional behavior: An alternative approach to decision research. Organizational Behavior and Human Performance, 22, 17-44.

Braunstein, M. L., & Stern, K. R. (1980). Static and dynamic factors in the perception of rotary motion. Perception & Psychophysics, 27, 313-320.

Braunstein, M. L., & Andersen, G. J. (1981). Velocity gradients and relative depth perception. Perception & Psychophysics, 29, 145-155.

Braunstein, M. L., Andersen, G. J., & Riefer, D. M. (1982). The use of occlusion to resolve ambiguity in parallel projections. Perception & Psychophysics, 31, 261-267.

Braunstein, M. L. (1983). Contrasts between human and machine vision: Should technology recapitulate phylogeny? In J. Beck, B. Hope, A. Rosenfeld (Eds.), Human and machine vision, New York: Academic Press.

Andersen, G. J., & Braunstein, M. L. (1983). Dynamic occlusion in the perception of rotation in depth. Perception & Psychophysics, 34, 356-362.

Braunstein, M. L., & Andersen, G. J. (1984). A counterexample to the rigidity assumption in the perception of structure from motion. Perception, 13, 213-217.

Braunstein, M. L., & Andersen, G. J. (1984). Shape and depth perception from parallel projections of three-dimensional motion. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 10, 749-760.

Andersen, G. J., & Braunstein, M. L. (1985). Induced self-motion in central vision. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 11, 122-132.

Braunstein, M. L. Andersen, G. J., Rouse, M. W., & Tittle, J. S. (1986). Recovering viewer-centered depth from disparity, occlusion, and velocity gradients. Perception & Psychophysics, 40, 216-224.

Braunstein, M. L. (1986). Dynamic stereo displays for research on the recovery of three-dimensional structure. Behavior Research Methods, Instruments, Computers, 18, 522-530.

Braunstein, M. L., & Andersen, G. J. (1986). Testing the rigidity assumption: A reply to Ullman. Perception, 15, 641-644.

Braunstein, M. L., Hoffman, D. D., Shapiro, L. R., Andersen, G. J., & Bennett, B. M. (1987). Minimum points and views for the recovery of three-dimensional structure. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 13, 335-343.

Braunstein, M. L. (1988). The empirical study of structure from motion. In W. N. Martin J. K. Aggarwal (Eds.), Motion understanding: Robot and human vision (pp. 101-142). Hingham, MA: Kluwer Academic Publishers.

Braunstein, M. L., & Tittle, J. S. (1988). The observer-relative velocity field as the basis for effective motion parallax. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 14, 582-590.

Braunstein, M. L. (1989). Structure from motion. In J. I. Elkind, S. K. Card, J. Hochberg, & B. M. Huey (Eds.), Human performance models for Computer-Aided Engineering. Washington, D.C.: National Academy Press.

Rouse, M. W., Tittle, J. S., & Braunstein, M. L. (1989). Stereoscopic depth perception by static stereo-deficient observers in dynamic displays with constant and changing disparity. Optometry and Vision Science, 66, 355-362.

Braunstein, M. L., Hoffman, D. D., & Saidpour, A. (1989). Parts of visual objects: an experimental test of the minima rule. Perception, 18, 817-826.

Braunstein, M. L., Hoffman, D. D., & Pollick, F. E. (1990). Discriminating rigid from nonrigid motion: Minimum points and views. Perception & Psychophysics, 47, 205-214.

Braunstein, M. L., & Todd, J. T. (1990). On the distinction between artifacts and information. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 16, 211-216.

Saidpour A., Braunstein, M. L., & Hoffman D. D. (1992). Interpolation in structure from motion. Perception & Psychophysics, 51, 105-117.

Braunstein, M. L., Liter, J. C., & Tittle, J. S. (1993). Recovering 3-D shape from perspective translations and orthographic rotations Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 19, 598-614.

Liter, J. C., Braunstein, M. L., & Hoffman, D. D. (1993). Inferring structure from motion in two-view and multiview displays. Perception, 22, 1441-1465.

Tittle, J. S., & Braunstein, M. L. (1993). Recovery of 3-D shape from binocular disparity and structure from motion. Perception & Psychophysics, 54, 157-169

Braunstein, M. L. (1994). Decoding principles, heuristics and inference in visual perception. In G. Jansson, S. S. Bergstrom, W. Epstein (Eds.), Perceiving Events and Objects. Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.

Saidpour, A., Braunstein, M. L., & Hoffman D. D. (1994). Interpolation across surface discontinuities in strucure from motion. Perception & Psychophysics, 55, 611-622.

Braunstein, M. L. (1994). Structure from motion. In A. T. Smith R. J. Snowden (Eds.) Visual Detection of Motion. New York: Academic Press.

Turner, J., Braunstein, M. L., & Andersen, G. J. (1995). Detection of surfaces in structure from motion. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 21, 809-821.

Liter, J. C., Braunstein, M. L., & Hoffman, D. D. (1994). Detection of one versus two objects in structure from motion. Journal of the Optical Society of America A, 11, 3162-3166.

Eby. D. W., & Braunstein, M. L. (1995). The perceptual flattening of three-dimensional scenes enclosed by a frame. Perception, 24, 981-993.

Turner, J., & Braunstein, M. L. (1995). Size constancy in structure from motion. Perception, 24, 1155-1164.

Turner, J., Braunstein, M. L., & Andersen, G. J. (1997). Relationship between binocular disparity and motion parallax in surface detection. Perception & Psychophysics, 59, 370-380.

Domini, F. , Braunstein, M. L. (1998). Recovery of 3D structure from motion is neither Euclidean nor affine, Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 24, 1273-1295.

Liter, J. L., & Braunstein, M. L. (1998). The relationship of vertical and horizontal velocity gradients in the perception of shape, rotation, and rigidity, Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 24, 1257-1272.

Andersen, G. J., Saidpour, A., & Braunstein, M. L. (1998). Effects of collimation on perceived layout in 3D scenes, Perception, 27, 1305-1315.

Andersen, G. J., Braunstein, M. L., & Saidpour, A. (1998). The perception of depth and slant from texture in 3D scenes, Perception, 27, 1087-1106.

Bocheva, N., & Braunstein, M. L. (2000). The contributions of slant and tilt to the detection of local surface orientation in structure from motion. Vision Research, 40, 3637-3649.

Domini, F., & Braunstein, M. L. (2001). Two-dimensional monocular distortions induced by a stereo surface. Perception & Psychophysics, 63, 607-624.

Sauer, C. W., Braunstein, M. L., Saidpour, A, & Andersen, G. J. (2001). Perceived depth of 3-D objects in 3-D scenes. Perception, 30, 681-692.

Braunstein, M. L. (2002). A better understanding of inference can reconcile constructivist and direct theories. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 25, 99.

Sauer, C. W., Braunstein, M. L., Saidpour, A., & Andersen, G. J.  Propagation of depth information from local regions in 3-D scenes.  (2002).  Perception, 31, 1047-1059.

Feria, C. S., Braunstein, M. L., & Andersen, G. J.  (2003).  Judging distance across texture discontinuities.  Perception, 32, 1423 – 1440.

Zhong, H., & Braunstein, M. L.  (2004).  Effect of background motion on the perceived shape of a 3D object.  Vision Research, 44, 2505-2513.

Ni, R., Braunstein, M. L., & Andersen, G. J.  (2004).  Perception of scene layout from optical contact, shadows and motion.  Perception, 33, 1305-1318.

Bian, Z., Braunstein, M. L., & Andersen, G. J.  (2005).  The ground dominance effect in the perception of 3-D layout.  Perception & Psychophysics, 67, 802-815.

Ni, R., Braunstein, M. L., & Andersen, G. J.  (2005).  Distance perception from motion parallax and ground contact.  Visual Cognition, 12, 1235-1254.

Bian, Z., Braunstein, M. L., & Andersen, G. J.  (2006).  The ground dominance effect in the perception of relative distance in 3-D scenes is mainly due to characteristics of the ground surface.  Perception & Psychophysics, 68, 1297-1309.

Bocheva, N., & Braunstein, M. L.  (2006).  Effects of surface markings on judgments of motion direction.  Perception, 35, 723-748.

Ni, R., Braunstein, M. L., & Andersen, G. J. (2007). Scene layout from ground contact, occlusion, and motion parallax.  Visual Cognition, 15, 46-68.

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