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  1. The McGill Diverse Face Database: 92 Complex Mental States Across Socially Perceived Racial Categories

    Article • November 2025, Center for Open Science

    Dr Gunnar Schmidtmann, Mr Andrew Logan

  2. Connecting the dots - Recognition of artificial and natural shapes relies on representing points of high information

    Article • November 2025, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Dr Gunnar Schmidtmann

  3. Investigating Age-Related Decline in Sensorimotor Control Using Robotic Tasks

    Article • July 2025, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Dr Gunnar Schmidtmann

  4. Investigating the repeatability and behavioral relationships of acuity, contrast sensitivity, form, and motion perception measurements using a novel tablet-based vision test tool

    Article • June 2025, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Dr Gunnar Schmidtmann

  5. The influence of similarity, sensitivity and bias on letter identification

    Article • April 2025, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Dr Gunnar Schmidtmann

  6. Clinical Vision Science

    Article • January 2025, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Gunnar Schmidtmann

  7. AVA Christmas Meeting Abstracts 2023

    Article • Perception, April 2024, SAGE Publications

    Dr Gunnar Schmidtmann

  8. Revealing the influence of bias in a letter acuity identification task: A noisy template model

    Article • Vision Research, July 2023, Elsevier

    Dr Gunnar Schmidtmann

  9. The discrimination of self from other as a component of empathy.

    Article • Emotion, December 2022, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Dr Gunnar Schmidtmann

  10. 43rd European Conference on Visual Perception (ECVP) 2021 Online

    Article • Perception, December 2021, SAGE Publications

    Dr Gunnar Schmidtmann

  11. Clinician’s perspectives in using head impulse-nystagmus-test of skew (HINTS) for acute vestibular syndrome: UK experience

    Article • Stroke and Vascular Neurology, October 2021, BMJ

    Dr Gunnar Schmidtmann

  12. Clinician’s perspectives of head impulse-nystagmus-test of skew for acute vestibular syndrome

    Article • Journal of the Neurological Sciences, October 2021, Elsevier

    Dr Gunnar Schmidtmann

  13. The effect of response biases on resolution thresholds of Sloan letters in central and paracentral vision

    Article • Vision Research, October 2021, Elsevier

    Dr Gunnar Schmidtmann

  14. AVA 2020 Virtual Christmas Meeting December 21, 2020

    Article • Perception, April 2021, SAGE Publications

    Dr Gunnar Schmidtmann

  15. The effect of response biases on resolution thresholds of Sloan letters in central and paracentral vision

    Article • September 2020, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Dr Gunnar Schmidtmann

  16. In the Blink of an Eye: Reading Mental States From Briefly Presented Eye Regions

    Article • i-Perception, September 2020, SAGE Publications

    Dr Gunnar Schmidtmann

  17. AVA Christmas Meeting, Cardiff University, December 16, 2019

    Article • Perception, June 2020, SAGE Publications

    Dr Gunnar Schmidtmann

  18. A new image database of facial expressions of complex mental states

    Article • Perception, February 2020, SAGE Publications

    Dr Gunnar Schmidtmann

  19. Clinical Vision Science

    Article • January 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Gunnar Schmidtmann

  20. Detection of distortions in images of natural scenes in mild traumatic brain injury patients

    Article • Vision Research, August 2019, Elsevier

    Dr Gunnar Schmidtmann

  21. The processing of compound radial frequency patterns

    Article • Vision Research, August 2019, Elsevier

    Dr Gunnar Schmidtmann

  22. Temporal processing of facial expressions of mental states

    Article • April 2019, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Dr Gunnar Schmidtmann

  23. The McGill Face Database: validation and insights into the recognition of facial expressions of complex mental states

    Article • March 2019, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Dr Gunnar Schmidtmann

  24. Radial frequency patterns describe a small and perceptually distinct subset of all possible planar shapes

    Article • Vision Research, January 2019, Elsevier

    Dr Gunnar Schmidtmann

  25. RF shape channels: The processing of compound Radial Frequency patterns.

    Article • Journal of Vision, August 2017, Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO)

    Dr Gunnar Schmidtmann

  26. Sensitivity to Binocular Disparity is Reduced by Mild Traumatic Brain Injury

    Article • Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science, May 2017, Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO)

    Dr Gunnar Schmidtmann

  27. Nothing more than a pair of curvatures: A common mechanism for the detection of both radial and non-radial frequency patterns

    Article • Vision Research, May 2017, Elsevier

    Dr Gunnar Schmidtmann

  28. Nothing more than a curve: a common mechanism for the detection of radial and non-radial frequency patterns?

    Article • Journal of Vision, September 2016, Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO)

    Dr Gunnar Schmidtmann

  29. Rejecting probability summation for radial frequency patterns, not so Quick!

    Article • Vision Research, May 2016, Elsevier

    Dr Gunnar Schmidtmann

  30. Imagining circles – Empirical data and a perceptual model for the arc-size illusion

    Article • Vision Research, April 2016, Elsevier

    Dr Gunnar Schmidtmann

  31. Probability, not linear summation, mediates the detection of concentric orientation-defined textures

    Article • Journal of Vision, December 2015, Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO)

    Dr Gunnar Schmidtmann

  32. Shape recognition: convexities, concavities and things in between

    Article • Scientific Reports, November 2015, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Gunnar Schmidtmann

  33. Modelling probability summation for the detection of multiple stimuli under the assumptions of signal detection theory

    Article • Journal of Vision, September 2015, Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO)

    Dr Gunnar Schmidtmann

  34. Rejecting probability summation for RF patterns, not so Quick!

    Article • Journal of Vision, September 2015, Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO)

    Dr Gunnar Schmidtmann

  35. Shape recognition: convexities, concavities and things in between

    Article • Journal of Vision, September 2015, Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO)

    Dr Gunnar Schmidtmann

  36. Distinct lower visual field preference for object shape

    Article • Journal of Vision, April 2015, Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO)

    Dr Gunnar Schmidtmann

  37. Modeling probability and additive summation for detection across multiple mechanisms under the assumptions of signal detection theory

    Article • Journal of Vision, April 2015, Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO)

    Dr Gunnar Schmidtmann

  38. Shape recognition: Convexities, concavities and things in between

    Article • Journal of Vision, December 2014, Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO)

    Dr Gunnar Schmidtmann

  39. Spatial integration of orientation-defined texture

    Article • Journal of Vision, August 2014, Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO)

    Dr Gunnar Schmidtmann

  40. The role of the type of local contour in global shape discrimination.

    Article • Journal of Vision, July 2013, Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO)

    Dr Gunnar Schmidtmann

  41. Detecting shapes in noise: tuning characteristics of global shape mechanisms

    Article • Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience, January 2013, Frontiers

    Dr Gunnar Schmidtmann

  42. Non-linear global pooling in the discrimination of circular and non-circular shapes

    Article • Vision Research, June 2012, Elsevier

    Dr Gunnar Schmidtmann

  43. Intraocular pressure fluctuations in professional brass and woodwind musicians during common playing conditions

    Article • Graefe s Archive for Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology, January 2011, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Gunnar Schmidtmann