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J. Farley Norman is affiliated with Western Kentucky University in the United States and specializes in research primarily within the fields of Neuroscience and Psychology. Their published work spans across Cognitive Neuroscience and Social Psychology, with additional contributions in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, as well as Experimental and Cognitive Psychology and Automotive Engineering.

The scientist's research predominantly focuses on visual perception and processing mechanisms, color perception and design, color science and applications, multisensory perception and integration, spatial cognition and navigation, urban green space and health, and aesthetic perception and analysis.

Frequent coauthors include Jessica M. Dukes, Hannah Shapiro, James T. Todd, Karli N. Sanders, and Alejandro B. Ramirez.

J. Farley Norman has published in several academic journals, with notable venues being:

  • Scientific Reports
  • Journal of Vision
  • Vision Research
  • PLoS ONE
  • Attention Perception & Psychophysics

Some of their recent papers are listed below:

  • The Visual Perception of Large-Scale Distances Outdoors (2020, Perception)
  • Aging and the visual perception of object size (2022, Scientific Reports)
  • Aging and the perception of global structure (2020, PLoS ONE)

Other titles in the field of visual perception include:

  • Contours produced by internal specular interreflections provide visual information for the perception of glass materials (2020, Journal of Vision)
  • Visual distance perception indoors, outdoors, and in the dark (2022, Vision Research)

The body of work by J. Farley Norman engages mainly with understanding how humans perceive spatial information and object characteristics, often considering factors such as environmental context and aging. Their contributions extend across both theoretical and experimental approaches within visual and cognitive neuroscience frameworks.

Best Publications

  • The Visual Perception of Three-Dimensional Length

    J. Farley Norman;James T. Todd;Victor J. Perotti;James S. Tittle

  • Systematic distortion of perceived three-dimensional structure from motion and binocular stereopsis.

    James S. Tittle;James T. Todd;Victor J. Perotti;J. Farley Norman

  • The visual perception of 3-D shape from multiple cues: are observers capable of perceiving metric structure?

    James T. Todd;J. Farley Norman

  • The visual and haptic perception of natural object shape

    J. Farley Norman;Hideko F. Norman;Anna Marie Clayton;Joann Lianekhammy

  • Perception of Three-Dimensional Shape From Specular Highlights, Deformations of Shading, and Other Types of Visual Information

    J. Farley Norman;James T. Todd;Guy A. Orban

  • The visual perception of smoothly curved surfaces from minimal apparent motion sequences

    James T. Todd;James T. Todd;J. Farley Norman

  • Parietal regions processing visual 3D shape extracted from disparity.

    Jean-Baptiste Durand;Ronald R. Peeters;J. Farley Norman;James T. Todd

  • The perception of surface orientation from multiple sources of optical information

    J. Farley Norman;James T. Todd;Flip Phillips

  • Attention to 3-D Shape, 3-D Motion, and Texture in 3-D Structure from Motion Displays

    Hendrik Peuskens;Kristl G. Claeys;James T. Todd;J. Farley Norman

  • The perception of globally coherent motion.

    Ennio Mingolla;James T. Todd;J. Farley Norman

  • Aging and the perception of speed.

    J Farley Norman;Heather E Ross;Laura M Hawkes;Jennifer R Long

  • Aging and the perception of biological motion.

    J. Farley Norman;Sharon M. Payton;Jennifer R. Long;Laura M. Hawkes

  • The perceptual analysis of structure from motion for rotating objects undergoing affine stretching transformations

    J. Farley Norman;James T. Todd

  • Blindness enhances tactile acuity and haptic 3-D shape discrimination

    J. Farley Norman;Ashley N. Bartholomew

  • Lightness Constancy in the Presence of Specular Highlights

    James T. Todd;J. Farley Norman;Ennio Mingolla

  • Effects of Texture, Illumination, and Surface Reflectance on Stereoscopic Shape Perception:

    James T Todd;J Farley Norman;Jan J Koenderink;Astrid M L Kappers

  • Information concentration along the boundary contours of naturally shaped solid objects.

    J Farley Norman;Flip Phillips;Heather E Ross

  • The detection of surface curvatures defined by optical motion.

    J. Farley Norman;Joseph S. Lappin

  • The Effects of Age upon the Perception of Depth and 3-D Shape from Differential Motion and Binocular Disparity

    J Farley Norman;Thomas E Dawson;Amy K Butler

  • Aging and the Visual, Haptic, and Cross-Modal Perception of Natural Object Shape:

    J Farley Norman;Charles E Crabtree;Hideko F Norman;Brandon K Moncrief

  • The visual and haptic perception of natural object shape

    Hideko F Norman;J. Farley Norman;Anna M Clayton;Joann Lianekhammy

Frequent Co-Authors

James T. Todd
James T. Todd The Ohio State University
Joseph S. Lappin
Joseph S. Lappin Vanderbilt University
Geoffrey P. Bingham
Geoffrey P. Bingham Indiana University
Frans A. J. Verstraten
Frans A. J. Verstraten University of Sydney

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