Selected conference and workshop presentations

Blaser, E. (2006). The hidden scale of natural forms: A new cue to depth? The Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society (VSS), Sarasota, FL

Niederhoefer, V. & Blaser, E. (2006). The functional units of visual working memory: Objects or Locations? The Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society (VSS), Sarasota, FL

Kaldy, Z., Blaser, E., & Kibbe, M. (2006). Detection vs. Salience of color and motion-defined stimuli in 6-month-old infants. The Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society (VSS), Sarasota, FL

Kaldy, Z., Blaser, E., Kibbe, M., & Pomplun, M. (2005). What drives visual salience in young infants? The Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society (VSS), Sarasota, FL

Blaser, E., Kaldy, Z., Eddy, K., & Pomplun, M. (2005). Determining salience for complex objects. The Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society (VSS), Sarasota, FL

Kaldy, Z. & Blaser, E. (2005). Visual salience relations reflect perceptual development in 5- and 6-month-old infants. The Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development (SRCD), Atlanta, GA

Kaldy, Z., & Blaser, E. (2004). Iso-salient color and luminance information in visual working memory. European Conference on Visual Perception (ECVP), Budapest, Hungary

Kaldy, Z., Blaser, E., & Leslie, A. (2004). Iso-salient color and luminance information in object identification. International Conference on Infancy Studies (ICIS), Chicago, IL

Blaser, E., Domini, F., & Raymond, L. (2004). Perceptual learning increases the tilt aftereffect. The Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society (VSS), Sarasota, FL

Blaser, E., Papathomas, T., & Vidnyanszky, Z. (2003). Polarity-contingent motion aftereffects at the stage of local motion processing. The Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society (VSS), Sarasota, FL

Blaser, E., Vidnyanszky, Z., & Papathomas, T. (2002). Relative motion, not polarity, breaks ‘surface tension’. The Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society (VSS), Sarasota, FL

Sohn, W., Blaser, E., Vidnyanszky, Z., & Papathomas, T. (2002). Surface based mechanisms of attentional facilitation and inhibition in motion perception. The Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society (VSS), Sarasota, FL

Vidnyanszky, Z., Blaser, E., & Papathomas, T. (2001). An explanation for unidirectional motion aftereffects following adaptation to bivectorial transparent motion. The Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society (VSS), Sarasota, FL

Sohn, W., Vidnyanszky, Z., Blaser, E., & Papathomas, T. (2001). Attention to one component of bivectorial transparent motion strongly inhibits the processing of the unattended component. The Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society (VSS), Sarasota, FL

Domini, F. & Blaser, E. (2000).  Surface-based depth perception. The Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO), Annual Meeting, Ft. Lauderdale, FL

Blaser, E., Pylyshyn, Z.W., & Domini, F. (1999). Measuring attention during 3D multielement tracking.  The Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO), Annual Meeting, Ft. Lauderdale, FL

Sohn, W., Papathomas, T., Blaser, E., & Vidnyanszky, Z. (2003).  Object-based cross-attribute attentional effects in bivectorial motion. The Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society (VSS), Sarasota, FL

Selected publications

Blaser, E. & Shepard, T (accepted, pending editor approval). Maximal motion aftereffects in spite of diverted awareness. Vision Research.

Kaldy, Z. & Blaser, E. (accepted, pending editor approval) How to compare apples and oranges: Infants’ visual memory or equally salient shape and luminance changes.

Blaser, E. & Sperling, G.  (2008) When is motion motion? Perception.

Kaldy, Z., Blaser, E., & Leslie, A., (2006). A new method for calibrating perceptual salience across dimensions in infants: the case of color vs. luminance.  Developmental Science, 9:5, 482–489

Blaser, E., Papathomas, T.V., & Vidnyanszky, Z.  (2005). Binding of motion and colour is local and automatic. European Journal of Neuroscience, 21, 2040-2044

Papathomas T.V., Vidnyanszky Z., Blaser E. (2004). Transparent motion: a powerful tool  to study segmentation, integration, adaptation, and attentional selection. Jenkin, M. and Harris, L. (eds.) Seeing Spatial Form, Oxford University Press, 2004.

Sohn, W., Papathomas, T., Blaser, E., & Vidnyanszky, Z. (2004). Object-based cross-attribute attentional modulation from color to motion. Vision Research, 44, 1437-1443.

Vidnyanszky, Z., Blaser, E., & Papathomas, T. (2002). Motion integration during motion aftereffects. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 6, 157-161.

Blaser, E. & Domini, F.  (2002). The conjunction of feature and depth information. Vision Research, 42, 273-279.

Sperling, G., Reeves A., Blaser, E., Lu, Z-L, & Weichselgartner, E. (2001). Two computational models of attention.  Visual attention and cortical circuits, MIT Press. 

Blaser, E., Pylyshyn, Z.W., & Holcombe, A. (2000). Tracking an object through feature-space. Nature, 408, 196-199.

see also:

Braun, J.  (2000). Intimate attention.  [Discussion of Blaser, Pylyshyn, & Holcombe (2000)]. Nature, 408, 154-155.

Domini, F., Blaser, E., & Cicerone, C. (2000). Color-specific depth mechanisms revealed by a color-contingent depth aftereffect. Vision Research, 40, 359-364.

Blaser, E., Sperling, G., & Lu, Z-L. (1999). Measuring the amplification of attention.  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 96, 11681-11686.

see also:

Snowden, R. (2000) In clear and vivid form?  [Discussion of Blaser, Sperling, & Lu (1999)]. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 4, 40.

Kowler, E. & Blaser, E. (1995). The accuracy and precision of saccades to small and large targets. Vision Research, 35, 1741-1754

Kowler, E., Anderson, E., Dosher, B., & Blaser, E. (1995). The role of attention in the programming of saccades. Vision Research, 35, 1897-1916.

Dr. Erik Blaser.  Assistant Professor, UMass Boston

B.A., Psychology, Rutgers University (advisor, Dr. Eileen Kowler)

M.A., Mathematical Behavioral Science, University of California, Irvine

Ph.D., Psychology (Cognitive Science), UC Irvine (advisor, George Sperling)

Postdoc, Rutgers University (supervisors, Dr. Thomas Papathomas & Dr. Zenon Pylyshyn)