Associate Professor John Cass

Journal Articles

• Cass, J., Giltrap, G. and Talbot, D. (2020), 'Female body dissatisfaction and attentional bias to body images evaluated using visual search', Frontiers in Psychology, vol 10 .
• Talbot, D., Cass, J. and Smith, E. (2020), 'Male figural rating scales : a critical review of the literature', Behaviour Change, vol 37, no 2 , pp 59 - 73.
• Talbot, D., Smith, E., Cass, J. and Griffiths, S. (2019), 'Development and validation of the New Somatomorphic Matrix-Male : a figural rating scale for measuring male actual-ideal body discrepancy', Psychology of Men and Masculinity, vol 20, no 3 , pp 356 - 367.
• Cass, J. and Van der Burg, E. (2019), 'Dynamic distractor environments reveal classic visual field anisotropies for judgments of temporal order', Attention, Perception and Psychophysics, vol 81, no 3 , pp 738 - 751.
• Talbot, D., Smith, E. and Cass, J. (2019), 'The relationship between psychophysical body categorization performance and male body dissatisfaction', Scientific Reports, vol 9 .
• Talbot, D., Cass, J. and Smith, E. (2019), 'Visual Body Scale for Men (VBS) : validation of a new figural rating scale to measure perceived-desired body discrepancy in men', Journal of Clinical Psychology, vol 75, no 3 , pp 462 - 480.
• Talbot, D., Smith, E. and Cass, J. (2019), 'Male body dissatisfaction, eating disorder symptoms, body composition, and attentional bias to body stimuli evaluated using visual search', Journal of Experimental Psychopathology, vol 10, no 2 .
• Burg, E., Cass, J. and Theeuwes, J. (2019), 'Changes (but not differences) in motion direction fail to capture attention', Vision Research, vol 165 , pp 54 - 63.
• Burg, E., Alais, D. and Cass, J. (2018), 'Rapid recalibration to audiovisual asynchrony follows the physical - not the perceived - temporal order', Attention, Perception and Psychophysics, vol 80, no 6 , pp 2060 - 2068.
• Burg, E., Olivers, C. and Cass, J. (2017), 'Evolving the keys to visual crowding', Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, vol 43, no 4 , pp 690 - 699.
• Apthord, D., Griffin, S., Alais, D. and Cass, J. (2017), 'Adaptation-induced blindness is orientation-tuned and monocular', i-Perception, vol 8, no 2 .
• Talbot, D., Burg, E. and Cass, J. (2017), 'Stereoscopic segmentation cues improve visual timing performance in spatiotemporally cluttered environments', i-Perception, vol 8, no 2 .
• Burg, E., Cass, J., Theeuwes, J. and Alais, D. (2015), 'Evolving the stimulus to fit the brain : a genetic algorithm reveals the brain's feature priorities in visual search', Journal of Vision, vol 15, no 2 .
• Cass, J., Oake, D. and Burg, E. (2015), 'Stretching time : relativistic lag-induced shifts in perceived audiovisual synchrony using cluttered displays', Journal of Vision, vol 15, no 11 .
• Burg, E., Alais, D. and Cass, J. (2015), 'Audiovisual temporal recalibration occurs independently at two different time scales', Scientific Reports, vol 5 .
• Burg, E., Cass, J. and Alais, D. (2014), 'Window of audio-visual simultaneity is unaffected by spatio-temporal visual clutter', Scientific Reports, vol 4 .
• Cass, J. and Burg, E. (2014), 'Remote temporal camouflage : contextual flicker disrupts perceived visual temporal order', Vision Research, vol 103 , pp 92 - 100.
• Burg, E., Alais, D. and Cass, J. (2013), 'Rapid recalibration to audiovisual asynchrony', Journal of Neuroscience, vol 33, no 37 , pp 14633 - 14637.
• Baker, D. and Cass, J. (2013), 'A dissociation of performance and awareness during binocular rivalry', Psychological Science, vol 24, no 12 , pp 2563 - 2568.
• Zannoli, M., Cass, J., Mamassian, P. and Alais, D. (2012), 'Synchronized audio-visual transients drive efficient visual search for motion-in-depth', PLoS One, vol 7, no 5 .
• Zannoli, M., Cass, J., Alais, D. and Mamassian, P. (2012), 'Disparity-based stereomotion detectors are poorly suited to track 2D motion', Journal of Vision, vol 12, no 11 , pp 1 - 9.
• Wardle, S., Bex, P., Cass, J. and Alais, D. (2012), 'Stereoacuity in the periphery is limited by internal noise', Journal of Vision, vol 12, no 6 , pp 1 - 12.
• Cass, J., Johnson, A., Bex, P. and Alais, D. (2012), 'Orientation-specificity of adaptation : isotropic adaptation is purely monocular', PLoS One, vol 7, no 11 .
• Apthorp, D., Cass, J. and Alais, D. (2011), 'The spatial tuning of "motion streak" mechanisms revealed by masking and adaptation', Journal of Vision, vol 11, no 7 , pp 1 - 16.
• Cass, J., Van der Burg, E. and Alais, D. (2011), 'Finding flicker: critical differences in temporal frequency capture attention', Frontiers in Psychology, vol 2, no NOV .
• Alais, D., Apthorp, D., Karmann, A. and Cass, J. (2011), 'Temporal integration of movement : the time-course of motion streaks revealed by masking', PLoS One, vol 6, no 12 , pp 1 - 10.
• Van Der Burg, E., Cass, J., Olivers, C., Theeuwes, J. and Alais, D. (2010), 'Efficient visual search from synchronized auditory signals requires transient audiovisual events', PLoS One, vol 5, no 5 , pp 1 - 11.
• Alais, D. and Cass, J. (2010), 'Multisensory perceptual learning of temporal order : audiovisual learning transfers to vision but not audition', PLoS One, vol 5, no 6 , pp 1 - 9.
• Apthorp, D., Cass, J. and Alais, D. (2010), 'Orientation tuning of contrast masking caused by motion streaks', Journal of Vision, vol 10, no 10 , pp 1 - 13.
• Dakin, S., Cass, J., Greenwood, J. and Bex, P. (2010), 'Probabilistic, positional averaging predicts object-level crowding effects with letter-like stimuli', Journal of Vision, vol 10, no 10 , pp 1 - 16.
• Alais, D., Cass, J., O'Shea, R. and Blake, R. (2010), 'Visual Sensitivity Underlying Changes in Visual Consciousness', Current Biology, vol 20, no 15 , pp 1362 - 1367.
• Wardle, S., Cass, J., Brooks, K. and Alais, D. (2010), 'Breaking camouflage : binocular disparity reduces contrast masking in natural images', Journal of Vision, vol 10, no 14 , pp 1 - 12.
• Dakin, S., Watt, R., Cass, J. and Bex, P. (2009), 'Dissociable effects of attention and crowding on orientation averaging', Journal of Vision, vol 9, no 11 , pp 1 - 16.
• Cass, J., Clifford, C., Alias, D. and Spehar, B. (2009), 'Temporal structure of chromatic channels revealed through masking', Journal of Vision, vol 9, no 5 , pp 1 - 15.
• Cass, J., Alais, D., Spehar, B. and Bex, P. (2009), 'Temporal whitening : transient noise perceptually equalizes the 1/f temporal amplitude spectrum', Journal of Vision, vol 9, no 10 .
• Stuit, S., Cass, J., Paffen, C. and Alais, D. (2009), 'Orientation-tuned suppression in binocular rivalry reveals general and specific components of rivalry suppression', Journal of Vision, vol 9, no 11 , pp 1 - 15.
• Cass, J., Stuit, S., Bex, P. and Alais, D. (2009), 'Orientation bandwidths are invariant across spatiotemporal frequency after isotropic components are removed', Journal of Vision, vol 9, no 12 , pp 1 - 14.
• Cass, J. and Alias, D. (2006), 'The mechanisms of collinear integration', Journal of Vision, vol 6, no 9 , pp 915 - 922.
• Cass, J. and Alias, D. (2006), 'Evidence for two interacting temporal channels in visual processing', Vision Research, vol 46 , pp 2859 - 2868.
• Cass, J. and Spehar, B. (2005), 'Dynamics of iso- and cross-surround facilitation suggest distinct mechanisms', Vision Research, vol 45 , pp 3060 - 3073.
• Alias, D., Lorenceau, J., Arrighi, R. and Cass, J. (2005), 'Contour interactions between pairs of Gabors engaged in binocular rivalry reveal a map of the association field', Vision Research, vol 46, no 40794 , pp 1473 - 1487.
• Cass, J. and Spehar, B. (2005), 'Dynamics of collinear contrast facilitation are consistent with long-range horizontal striate transmission', Vision Research, vol 45, no 21 , pp 2728 - 2739.
• Burke, D., Cieplucha, C., Cass, J., Russell, F. and Fry, G. (2002), 'Win-shift and win-stay learning in short beaked echidna (Tachyglossus aculeatus', Animal Cognition, vol 5 , pp 79 - 84.