Tom Banton

Tom Banton
Email: tab2v@virginia.edu
Position: Research Scientist
Education:Indiana University
     (psychology)

Illinois College of Optometry
      OD, BS (visual sciences)

University of Houston College of Optometry
      PhD (physiological optics)

University of Virginia
      Post doc (visual development)
Research:Visual perception in natural and virtual environments; Motion perception


Lab Publications

  • Zhu, J., Bakdash, J.Z., Koller, D., Banton, T.B., Proffitt, D.R., and Humpherys, G. (2008). Quantifying Usability in Secure Graphics: Assessing the user costs of protecting 3-D content. In Proceedings of the 5th Annual ACM SIGGRAPH Symposium on Applied Perception in Graphics and Visualization.
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  • Proffitt, D.R., Stefanucci, J., Banton, T., & Epstein, W. (2007). Reply to Hutchison and Loomis. The Spanish Journal of Psychology. 9, 340-342.
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  • Proffitt, D.R., Stefanucci, J., Banton, T., & Epstein, W. (2007). A Final Reply to Hutchison and Loomis. The Spanish Journal of Psychology, 9, 346-348.
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  • Stefanucci, J., Proffitt, D., Banton, T., & Epstein, W. (2005). Distances appear different on hills. Perception & Psychophysics, 67(6), 1052-1060.
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  • Banton, T., Stefanucci, J., Durgin, J., Fass, A., & Proffitt, D. (2005). The Perception of Walking Speed in a Virtual Environment. Presence, 14(4), 394-406.
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  • Proffitt, D.R., Stefanucci, J., Banton, T., & Epstein, W. (2003). The role of effort in perceiving distance. Psychological Science.
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  • Proffitt, D., & Banton, T. (1999). Perceived depth is enhanced with parallax scanning.: Technical report for Vision III Imaging.

  • Kaiser, M. K., Proffitt, D. R., Banton, T., & Steve, J. (1999). Learning to walk on other worlds: Simulation of alternative gravitational / inertial environments.

Other Publications

  • Ridder, W. H. I., Borsting, E., & Banton, T. (2001). All developmental dyslexic subtypes display an elevated motion coherence threshold. Optometry and Vision Science, 78(7), 510-517.

  • Banton, T., Dobkins, K., & Bertenthal, B. I. (2001). Infant direction discrimination thresholds. Vision Research, 41(8), 1049-1056.

  • Banton, T., Bertenthal, B. I., & Seaks, J. (1999). Infants' sensitivity to statistical distributions of motion direction and speed. Vision Research, 39(20), 3417-3430.

 

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