Distraction of attention and the slope of the psychometric function
JOSA A, Vol. 16, Issue 2, pp. 217-222 (1999)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1364/JOSAA.16.000217
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Abstract
The influential uncertainty model [J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 2, 1508 (1985)] attributes nonlinear contrast sensitivity near threshold to the inability of the observer to discriminate between the signal from stimulated locations and the noise from nonstimulated locations. We introduce an alternative interpretation, the distraction model, to describe the behavior of an observer who knows exactly which location was stimulated but may miss the test stimulus because attention has been distracted by irrelevant (noise) signals. For any stimulus sample, the observer is assumed to be certain of whether this sample is relevant or irrelevant to the stimulus. The nonlinear effects predicted by the distraction model without uncertainty are similar to those predicted by the uncertainty model.
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OCIS Codes
(000.5490) General : Probability theory, stochastic processes, and statistics
(330.4060) Vision, color, and visual optics : Vision modeling
(330.5510) Vision, color, and visual optics : Psychophysics
Citation
Leonid L. Kontsevich and Christopher W. Tyler, "Distraction of attention and the slope of the psychometric function," J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 16, 217-222 (1999)
http://www.opticsinfobase.org/josaa/abstract.cfm?URI=josaa-16-2-217
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