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Preprints and reviewed publications by topic:

 Material perception: visual -, including color, haptic - & by machines
 Genetic influences on brain structure & function
Visual material perception
 Schmid, A.C., Barla, P. & Doerschner, K.(preprint). Material category determined by specular reflection structure mediates the processing of image features for perceived gloss. bioRxiv, doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2019.12.31.892083 (submitted, under revision)

Schmid, A.C., Boyaci, H. & Doerschner, K.(2021). Dynamic dot displays reveal material motion network in the human brain. NeuroImage, 228 (117688), DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2020.117688

Alley, L.M., Schmid, A.C. & Doerschner, K.(2020). Expectation affect the perception of material properties. Journal of Vision, 20(12), 1-20. DOI: 10.1167/jov.20.12.1

Toscani, M., Yucel, E. & Doerschner, K.(2019). Gloss and speed judgements yield different fine tuning of saccadic sampling in dynamic scenes. i-Perception https://doi.org/10.1177/2041669519889070

Schmid, A.C. & Doerschner, K.(2019). Representing stuff in the human brain. Cur. Op. Beh. Sci., 30, pp.178-185., https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cobeha.2019.10.007

Dovencioglu, D.N., van Doorn, A., Koenderink, J., Doerschner, K.(2018). Seeing through transparent layers. Journal of Vision, 18(9):25,1-19. doi:https://doi.org/10.1167/18.9.25

Schmid, A., Doerschner, K. (2018). The contribution of optical and mechanical properties to the perception of soft and hard breaking materials. Journal of Vision, 18(1):14, 1-32.,doi:https://doi.org/10.1167/18.1.14

Dovencioglu, D.N., Ben-Shahar ,O., Barla, P., Doerschner K. (2017). Specular motion and 3D shape estimation. Journal of Vision. doi: 10.1167/17.6.3

Dovencioglu, D. N., Wijntjes, M. W. A., Ben-Shahar, O., Doerschner, K., (2015). Effects of reflectance and object motion in estimating 3D structure, Journal of Vision, 17(1), 1-14, doi:10.1167/17.1.22.

Kam, T.E., Mannion, D. , Lee, S.W., Doerschner, K., Kersten, D. (2015). Human visual cortical responses to specular and matte motion flows, Front. Hum. Neurosci. 9:579. doi: 10.3389/fnhum.2015.00579. eCollection 2015.

Akin, B., Ozdem, C., Eroglu, S., Taslak Keskin, D.,Fang, F., Doerschner, K., Kersten, D., Boyaci H. (2014). Attention modulates neuronal correlates of interhemispheric integration and global motion perception, Journal of Vision, 27, vol. 14, no. 12, article 30. doi: 10.1167/14.12.30

Doerschner, K., Yilmaz. O., Kucukoglu, Fleming, R. (2013) Effects of 3D Shape and Surface Reflectance on Perceived Rotation Axis, Journal of Vision, 13(11):8, pp.1-23, doi: 10.1167/13.11.8

Doerschner, K. (2013). Motion and object appearance. In L. Albertazzi (Ed.), The Wiley-Blackwell Handbook of Experimental Phenomenology; Visual Perception of Shape, Space and Appearance. Wiley - Blackwell. DOI: 10.1002/9781118329016.ch9

Wijntes, M., Doerschner, K., Kucukoglu, G., Pont, S., (2012) Relative flattening between velvet and matte 3D shapes: evidence for similar shape-from-shading computations. Journal of Vision, 12(1)2, 1-11, http://journalofvision.org/12/1/2/; doi:10.1167/12.1.2.

Doerschner, K., Fleming, R., Yilmaz, O., Schrater, P., Hartung, B., Kersten, D., (2011) Visual Motion and the Perception of Surface Material. Current Biology 21(23), 2010-2016; doi:10.1016/j.cub.2011.10.036

Doerschner, K., Boyaci, H., Maloney, L.T. (2010). Perceived Glossiness in High Dynamic Range
Scenes. Journal of Vision, 10(9):11, 1-11, http://journalofvision.org/10/9/11/, doi:10.1167/10.9.11

Doerschner, K., Boyaci, H., Maloney, L.T. (2010). Estimating the glossiness transfer function induced by illumination change and testing its transitivity. Journal of Vision, 10(4):8, 1-9, http://journalofvision.org/10/4/8/, doi:10.1167/10.4.8

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Color perception
 Ennis, R. & Doerschner, K.(2021). The color appearance of three-dimensional, curved, transparent objects. Journal of Vision. https://doi.org/10.1167/jov.21.5.20

Ennis, R. & Doerschner, K. (2019). Disentangling simultaneous changes of surface and illumination. Vision Research, 158, 173-188. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.visres.2019.02.004

Braun, D.I. & Doerschner, K.(2019). Kandinsky or me? How free is the eye of the beholder in abstract art? i-Perception, 10(5), pp. 1-29.

Toscani, M., Gegenfurtner, K.R., Doerschner, K. (2017). Differences in illumination estimation in #thedress. Journal of Vision, 17(1), 1-14. doi:10.1167/17.1.22.

Maloney, L. T., Gerhard, H. E., Boyaci, H., & Doerschner, K. (2010). Surface color perception and light field estimation in 3D scenes. In L. Harris & M. Jenkins (Eds.), Vision in 3D environments (pp. 65-88). Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.

Doerschner, K., Boyaci, H., Maloney, L.T. (2007). Testing limits on matte surface color perception in three- dimensional scenes with complex light fields. Vision Research, 47, 3409-3423. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.visres.2007.09.020

Boyaci, H., Doerschner, K., Snyder, J., and Maloney, L.T. (2006). Surface Color Perception in Three-Dimensional Scenes. Visual Neuroscience, 23, 311-321. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0952523806233431

Schultz, S., Doerschner, K., and Maloney, L. T. (2006). Color constancy and hue scaling. Journal of Vision, 6, 1102-1116. http://journalofvision.org/6/10/10/

Boyaci, H., Doerschner, K., and Maloney, L. T. (2006). Cues to an equivalent lighting model. Journal of Vision, 6, 106-118. doi:10.1167/6.2.2

Snyder, J. L., Doerschner, K., and Maloney, L. T. (2005). Illumination estimation in three-dimensional scenes with and without specular cues. Journal of Vision, 5(10), 863-87. http://journalofvision.org/5/10/8

Maloney, L.T., Boyaci, H., Doerschner, K. (2005). Surface color perception as an inverse problem in biological vision. Computational Imaging III, edited by Charles A. Bouman, Eric L. Miller, Proceedings of SPIE-IS&T Electronic Imaging, SPIE Vol. 5674. doi:10.1117/12.598463

Boyaci, H., Doerschner, K., and Maloney, L. T. (2004). Perceived surface color in binocularly-viewed scenes with two light sources differing inchromaticity. Journal of Vision, 4, 664-679. doi:10.1167/4.9.1

Doerschner, K., Boyaci, H., and Maloney, L. T. (2004). Human observers compensate for secondary illumination originating in nearby chromatic surfaces. Journal of Vision, 4, 92-105. doi:10.1167/4.2.3
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Haptic material perception
 Cavdan, M., Doerschner, K. Drewing, K. (in press). Haptic discrimination of different types of soft materials. EuroHaptics 2022. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer, Cham

Cavdan, M., Drewing, K. Doerschner, K. (2021). The look and feel of soft are similar across different softness dimensions. Journal of Vision, 21(10):20, DOI: 10.1167/jov.21.10.20

Cavdan, M., Ennis, R., Drewing, K.,Doerschner, K. (2021). Constraining haptic explorations with sensors and gloves hardly changes the multidimensional structure of softness perception. IEEE World Haptic Conference. DOI: 10.1109/WHC49131.2021.9517138

Cavdan, M., Doerschner, K. Drewing, K. (2021). Task and material properties interactively affect softness exploration along different dimensions. IEEE Transactions on Haptics. DOI 10.1109/TOH.2021.3069626

Cavdan, M., Freund, A., Trieschmann, A.K., Doerschner, K. Drewing, K. (2020). From Hate to Love: How Learning Can Change Affective Responses to Touched Materials. In: Nisky I., Hartcher-OBrien J., Wiertlewski M., Smeets J. (eds) Haptics: Science, Technology, Applications. EuroHaptics 2020. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 12272. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-58147-3_7

Cavdan, M., Doerschner, K. Drewing, K., (2019). The many dimensions underlying perceived softness: H ow exploratory procedures are influences by material and the perceptual task. IEEE World Haptic Conference. DOI: 10.1109/WHC.2019.8816088
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Machine Vision
 Yilmaz. O., Doerschner, K., (2014). Detection and Localization of Specular Surfaces using Motion Cues, Machine Vision and Applications. Volume 25, Issue 5, pp 1333-1349. doi: 10.1007/s00138-014-0610-9

Doerschner, K., Kersten, D., Schrater, P., (2011). Rapid Classification of Specular and Diffuse Reflection from Image Velocities. Pattern Recognition, 44(9), 1874-1884 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.patcog.2010.09.007

Zang, D., Schrater, P., Doerschner, K. (2010). Object Rigidity and Reflectivity Identi.cation Based on Motion Analysis. International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), Hong Kong September 26-29, 2010. doi10.1109/ICIP.2010.5652288

Doerschner, K., Kersten, D., Schrater, P. (2009). Rapid Classi.cation of Surface Reflectance from Image Velocities. In Proceedings of the 13th international Conference on Computer Analysis of Images and Patterns (Mnster, Germany, September 02 - 04, 2009). X. Jiang and N. Petkov, Eds. Lecture Notes In Computer Science, vol. 5702. Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Heidelberg, 856-864. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-03767-2 104

Zang, D., Doerschner, K., Schrater, P. R. (2009). Rapid Inference of Object Rigidity and Reflectance Using Optic Flow. In Proceedings of the 13th international Conference on Computer Analysis of Images and Patterns (Mnster, Germany, September 02 - 04, 2009). X. Jiang and N. Petkov, Eds. Lecture Notes In Computer Science, vol. 5702. Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Heidelberg, 881-888.http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-03767-2 107
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Brain structure and function
Demirayak, P., Oguz, K.K., Ustun, S. F., Urgen, M. B., Topac, Y., Gilani, I., Kansu, T., Saygi, S., Ozcelik, T., Boyaci, H.,Doerschner, K. (2021). Functional connectivity in the face of congenital structural changes - a case of homozygous LAMC3 mutation. Brain and Behavior. http://doi.org/10.1002/brb3.2241

Gilani, I.A., Oguz, K.K., Boyaci, H., & Doerschner, K. (preprint 2020) Assessing Topographic Structural Connectivity of the Human Basal Ganglia and Thalamus. Brain Structure and Function. bioRxiv, https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.03.06.981142.

Urgen, M. B., Topac, Y., Ustun, S. F., Demirayak, P., Oguz, K., Kansu, T., Saygi, S., Ozcelik, T., Boyaci, H., Doerschner, K. (2018). Homozygous LAMC3 mutation links to structural and functional changes in visual attention networks. NeuroImage. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.201803077.

Oguz, K. K., Temucin, E., Gocmen, R., Has, A.C., Dolgun, A., Doerschner, K., Alikasifoglu, M. (2013) Assessment of Whole Brain White Matter by DTI in Autosomal Recessive Spastic Ataxia of Charlevoix- Saguenay, AJNR, doi: 10.3174/ajnr.A3488

Oguz, K. K., Sanverdi, E.,Temucin, C., Turk, S.,Haliloglu G., Doerschner, K., (2013) Tract- Based Spatial Statistics of Diffusion Tensor Imaging in Hereditary Spastic Paraplegia with Thin Corpus Callosum Reveals Widespread White Matter Abnormality, Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology, 19(3):181-6. doi: 10.5152/dir.2013.046.

Gulsuner, S., Tekinay, A.B., Doerschner, K.., Boyaci, H., Bilguvar, K., Unal, H., Ors, A., Atalar, E., Basak, N.,Topaloglu, H.Tan, M., Tan, U., Murat Gunel, M. Ozcelik, T., (2011) Homozygosity mapping and targeted genomic sequencing reveal the gene responsible for cerebellar hypoplasia and quadrupedal locomotion in a consanguineous kindred. Genome Research 21(12), 1995-2003; doi: 10.1101/gr.126110.111

Barak, T. , Kwan, K.Y. , Louvi, A., Demirbilek, V., Saygi, S., Tysz, B., Choi, M., Boyaci, H., Doerschner, K., Zhu, Z., Kaymakcalan, H., Yilmaz, S., Bakircioglu, M., Caglayan, O.A., Ozturk, A.K., Yasuno, K., BrunkenW.J., Atalar, E., Yalcinkaya, C., Dincer, A. Bronen, R.A., Mane, S., Oscelik, T, Lifton, R.P., Sestan, N., Bilguvar, K. & Gunel, M. (2011). Recessive LAMC3 mutations cause malformations of occipital cortical development. Nature Genetics 43(9), 590-594; doi:10.1038/ng.836
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