JACOB NACHMIAS

EDUCATION

A.B. 1950
M.A. 1952
Ph.D. 1956

Cornell University
Swarthmore College
Harvard University

19 57--1961

1961--1995

1996--

1974 --78, 1988--91

Instructor, Assistant Professor
Department of Psychology, Swarthmore College

Assistant Professor ... Professor
Dept. of Psychology, University of Pennsylvania

Emeritus Professor
Dept. of Psychology, University of Pennsylvania

Chair, Dept. of Psychology

Nachmias, J. and Kocher, E. (1970) Visual detection and discrimination of luminance

increments. J. Opt. Soc. Amer., 60, 382-389.

Watson, A.B. and Nachmias, J (1977) Patterns of temporal interaction in the detection

of gratings. Vision Research, 17, 893-902.

Graham, N., Robson, J.G. and Nachmias, J. (1978) Grating summation in fovea and

periphery. Vision Research, 18, 815-827.

Watson, A.B., Thompson, P.G., Murphy, B.J. and Nachmias, J. (1980) Summation and

discrimination of gratings moving in opposite directions. Vision Research,

20, 341-348.

Nachmias, J. On the psychometric functions for contrast detection. (1981) Vision

Research, 21, 215-223.

Field, D.J. and Nachmias, J. Pha se reversal discrimination. (1984) Vision

Research, 24, 333-341.

Nachmias, J. Contrast modulated maskers: Test of a late non-linearity hypothesis. (1989) Vision

Research, 29, 137--142.

Nachmias, J. A template matching model of subthreshold summation. ( 1991) In Computational

Models of Visual Processing, (eds. M. Landy and J.A. Movshon), MIT Press:

Cambridge, 137-- 147.

Nachmias, J. Masked detection of gratings: the standard model revisited. (1993) Vision

Research, 33, 1359-1365.

Nachmias, J. How is a grating detected on a narrowband noise masker? (1999) Vision

Research, 39, 1133-1142.

Nachmias, J. Contrast discrimination with and without spatial uncertainty (2002) Vision

Research, 42, 41-48.