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  • 标题:Paradoxical Psychometric Functions (“Swan Functions”) are Explained by Dilution Masking in Four Stimulus Dimensions
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  • 作者:Daniel H. Baker ; Tim S. Meese ; Mark A. Georgeson
  • 期刊名称:i-Perception
  • 电子版ISSN:2041-6695
  • 出版年度:2013
  • 卷号:4
  • 期号:1
  • 页码:17-35
  • DOI:10.1068/i0552
  • 出版社:Pion Ltd.
  • 摘要:The visual system dissects the retinal image into millions of local analyses along numerous visual dimensions. However, our perceptions of the world are not fragmentary, so further processes must be involved in stitching it all back together. Simply summing up the responses would not work because this would convey an increase in image contrast with an increase in the number of mechanisms stimulated. Here, we consider a generic model of signal combination and counter-suppression designed to address this problem. The model is derived and tested for simple stimulus pairings (e.g. A + B ), but is readily extended over multiple analysers. The model can account for nonlinear contrast transduction, dilution masking, and signal combination at threshold and above. It also predicts nonmonotonic psychometric functions where sensitivity to signal A in the presence of pedestal B first declines with increasing signal strength (paradoxically dropping below 50% correct in two-interval forced choice), but then rises back up again, producing a contour that follows the wings and neck of a swan. We looked for and found these “swan” functions in four different stimulus dimensions (ocularity, space, orientation, and time), providing some support for our proposal.
  • 关键词:dilution masking ; suppression ; summation ; binocular ; spatiotemporal vision ; orientation
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