Phone:: (023) 8059 4587
Email:: E.W.Graf@soton.ac.uk

Dr Erich Graf BSc, PhD

Associate Professor, Director of Postgraduate Taught Programmes

Related links

Dr Erich Graf is Associate Professor within Psychology at the University of Southampton.

BSc (Psychology) - University of Washington, USA (1996)

PhD (Vision Science) - University of California-Berkeley, USA (2001)

NSF International Research Fellow, University of Glasgow (2001 - 2003)

Research

Responsibilities

Publications

Teaching

Contact

Research interests

My research is directed at understanding more about how the brain processes perceptual information. Our perceptual experience is rich in detail, and the automatic nature of perception belies the complex processing involved.

Work in Progress

I am currently investigating the role of natural scenes statistics on human visual processing. The SYNS dataset is the result of an EPSRC-funded project in which we collected 3D range and image data across a large number of different categories of rural and urban environments.

We can use datasets like SYNS to evaluate and characterise the visual world. Starting with the hypothesis that the statistical structure of our environment may lead to measurable biases in how we see the world, lab-based studies investigate how our experience in the world has shaped our visual system.

Research group

Centre for Vision and Cognition (CVC)

Articles

Martin-Key, N. A., Graf, E., Adams, W., & Fairchild, G. (2018). Facial emotion recognition and eye movement behaviour in conduct disorder. Journal of Child Psychology & Psychiatry, 59(3), 247–257. DOI: 10.1111/jcpp.12795
Adams, W., Elder, J., Graf, E., Leyland, J., Lugtigheid, A., & Muryy, A. (2016). The Southampton-York Natural Scenes (SYNS) dataset: statistics of surface attitude. Scientific Reports, 6(35805), 1-16. DOI: 10.1038/srep35805
Adams, W., Kerrigan, I. S., & Graf, E. (2016). Touch influences perceived gloss. Scientific Reports, 6(21866), 1-12. DOI: 10.1038/srep21866
Vangorp, P., Myszkowski, K., Graf, E. W., & Mantiuk, R. K. (2015). A model of local adaptation. ACM Transactions on Graphics, 34(6). DOI: 10.1145/2816795.2818086
Warren, P. A., Graf, E. W., Maloney, L. T., & Champion, R. A. (2012). Visual extrapolation under risk: human observers estimate and compensate for exogenous uncertainty. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 279(1736), 2171-2179. DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2011.2527
Adams, W. J., Gray, K. L. H., Garner, M. J., & Graf, E. W. (2011). On the ‘special’ status of emotional faces... Comment on Yang, Hong, and Blake (2010). Journal of Vision, 11(3, article 10), 1-4. DOI: 10.1167/11.3.10
Baker, D. H., & Graf, E. W. (2010). Contextual effects in speed perception may occur at an early stage of processing. Vision Research, 50(2), 193-201. DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2009.11.011
Adams, W. J., Kerrigan, I. S., & Graf, E. W. (2010). Efficient visual recalibration from either visual or haptic feedback: The importance of being wrong. Journal of Neuroscience, 30(44), 14745-14749. DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2749-10.2010
Baker, D. H., & Graf, E. W. (2010). Extrinsic factors in the perception of bistable motion stimuli. Vision Research, 50, 9 pages. DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2010.04.016
Adams, W. J., Gray, K. L. H., Garner, M., & Graf, E. W. (2010). High-level face adaptation without awareness. Psychological Science, 21(2), 205-210. DOI: 10.1177/0956797609359508
Lages, M., Adams, W. J., & Graf, E. W. (2009). Motion-aftereffect-induced blindness. Journal of Vision, 9(11), 7pp. DOI: 10.1167/9.11.11
Baker, D. H., & Graf, E. W. (2009). Natural images dominate in binocular rivalry. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 106(13), 5436-5441. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0812860106
Baker, D. H., & Graf, E. W. (2009). On the relation between dichoptic masking and binocular rivalry. Vision Research, 49(4), 451-459. DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2008.12.002
Taya, S., Adams, W. J., Graf, E. W., & Lavie, N. (2009). The fate of task-irrelevant visual motion: perceptual load versus feature-based attention. Journal of Vision, 9(12), 12-[10pp]. DOI: 10.1167/9.12.12
Knapen, T., Brascamp, J., Adams, W. J., & Graf, E. W. (2009). The spatial scale of perceptual memory in ambiguous figure perception. Journal of Vision, 9(13), 1-12. DOI: 10.1167/9.13.16
Baker, D. H., & Graf, E. W. (2008). Equivalence of physical and perceived speed in binocular rivalry. Journal of Vision, 8(4), 1-12. DOI: 10.1167/8.4.26
Graf, E. W., & Adams, W. J. (2008). Surface organisation influences bistable vision. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 34(2), 502-508. DOI: 10.1037/0096-1523.34.2.502
Lages, M., Dolia, A., & Graf, E. W. (2007). Dichoptic motion perception limited to depth of fixation? Vision Research, 47(2), 244-252. DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2006.10.001
Graf, E. W., Warren, P. A., & Maloney, L. T. (2005). Explicit estimation of visual uncertainty in human motion processing. Vision Research, 45(24), 3050-3059. DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2005.08.007
Adams, W. J., Graf, E. W., & Ernst, M. O. (2004). Experience can change the 'light-from-above' prior. Nature Neuroscience, 7(10), 1057-1058. DOI: 10.1038/nn1312
Graf, E. W., Adams, W. J., & Lages, M. (2004). Prior depth information can bias motion perception. Journal of Vision, 4(6), 427-433.
Graf, E. W., Maxwell, J. S., & Schor, C. M. (2003). Comparison of the time courses of concomitant and nonconcomitant vertical phoria adaptation. Vision Research, 43(5), 567-576. DOI: 10.1016/S0042-6989(02)00597-7
Lages, M., Mamassian, P., & Graf, E. W. (2003). Spatial and temporal tuning of motion-in-depth. Vision Research, 43(27), 2861-2873. DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2003.08.006
Schor, C. M., Maxwell, J. S., McCandless, J., Graf, E., Kaminski, H. J. (Ed.), & Leigh, R. J. (Ed.) (2002). Adaptive control of vergence in humans. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 956, 297-305.
Graf, E. W., Maxwell, J. S., & Schor, C. M. (2002). Changes in cyclotorsion and vertical eye alignment during prolonged monocular occlusion. Vision Research, 42(9), 1185-1194. DOI: 10.1016/S0042-6989(02)00047-0
Suttle, C. M., Banks, M. S., & Graf, E. W. (2002). FPL and sweep VEP to tritan stimuli in young human infants. Vision Research, 42(26), 2879-2891. DOI: 10.1016/S0042-6989(02)00333-4
Graf, E. W., Adams, W. J., & Lages, M. (2002). Modulating motion induced blindness with surface completion and depth ordering. Vision Research, 42(25), 2731-2735. DOI: 10.1016/S0042-6989(02)00390-5
Maxwell, J. S., Graf, E. W., & Schor, C. M. (2001). Adaptation of torsional eye alignment in relation to smooth pursuit and saccades. Vision Research, 41(27), 3735-3749. DOI: 10.1016/S0042-6989(01)00215-2
Hasebe, S., Graf, E. W., & Schor, C. M. (2001). Fatigue reduces tonic accommodation. Ophthalmic and Physiological Optics, 21(2), 151-160. DOI: 10.1016/S0275-5408(00)00020-X

Conferences

Ehinger, K., Adams, W., Graf, E., & Elder, J. H. (2018). Local depth edge detection in humans and deep neural networks. In ICCV Workshop on Mutual Benefits of Cognitive and Computer Vision (pp. 2681-2689). (IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision Workshops). Piscataway: IEEE.
Adams, W. J., Muryy, A. A., Graf, E. W., Lugtigheid, A. J., & Elder, J. H. (2015). The Southampton York natural scenes (SYNS) dataset. In CVMP '15 Proceedings of the 12th European Conference on Visual Media Production New York, US: ACM. DOI: 10.1145/2824840.2824857

PSYC 1005: Thinking Psychologically

PSYC 2018: Perception

PSYC 3043: Ambiguity in visual scenes

PSYC 6022: MSc Dissertation

Dr Erich Graf
Building 44 Highfield Campus University of Southampton SO17 1BJ

Room Number:44/4107

Facsimile: (023) 8059 4597

Share this profile Share this on Facebook Share this on Google+ Share this on Twitter Share this on Weibo

We use cookies to ensure that we give you the best experience on our website. If you continue without changing your settings, we will assume that you are happy to receive cookies on the University of Southampton website.