Spatiotemporal filters in the detection of background modulation targets
JOSA A, Vol. 17, Issue 5, pp. 836-845 (2000)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1364/JOSAA.17.000836
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Abstract
The background modulation method has been proposed as a useful test of early visual mechanisms [Biol. Cybern. 37, 77 (1980); Biol. Cybern. 47, 173 (1983)]. The task involves measuring detection thresholds for a luminous spot (increment) drifting over a spatially or temporally modulated background. The study explores the nature of the detecting mechanism in terms of spatial and temporal filters for both spatial and temporal background modulations. In both cases we find that thresholds can be explained by spatial contrast cues generated by the moving spot and that their spatiotemporal characteristics suggest detection by magnocellular processes.
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OCIS Codes
(330.1800) Vision, color, and visual optics : Vision - contrast sensitivity
(330.5510) Vision, color, and visual optics : Psychophysics
(330.6110) Vision, color, and visual optics : Spatial filtering
(330.7310) Vision, color, and visual optics : Vision
Citation
Allison M. McKendrick, David R. Badcock, and Algis J. Vingrys, "Spatiotemporal filters in the detection of background modulation targets," J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 17, 836-845 (2000)
http://www.opticsinfobase.org/josaa/abstract.cfm?URI=josaa-17-5-836
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