Interaction between motion scales: When performance in motion discrimination is worse for a compound stimulus than for its integrating components
Motion direction discrimination becomes impaired when combinations of drifting high spatial frequency (HSF) and static low spatial frequency (LSF) patterns are merged into a compound stimulus. Such impairment has been suggested to occur due to an interaction between motion sensors tuned to coarse an...
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| Keyword: | 159.93 Motion perception Contrast Spatial frequency Interaction between fine and coarse scales Motion sensors Inhibition Percepción 6106.09 Procesos de Percepción |
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| author | Luna del Valle, Raúl |
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| description | Motion direction discrimination becomes impaired when combinations of drifting high spatial frequency (HSF) and static low spatial frequency (LSF) patterns are merged into a compound stimulus. Such impairment has been suggested to occur due to an interaction between motion sensors tuned to coarse and fine scale spatial patterns. This interaction is modulated by different stimulus parameters like temporal frequency, size, the spectral components mixed, and their relative contrast. The present research precisely aims to explore in a deeper way the interaction’s dependency upon the spatial frequency and the relative contrast of the components when both move coherently. Two experiments were therefore performed measuring duration thresholds (Experiment 1) and proportion of correct responses (Experiment 2) in a motion direction discrimination task. Stimuli were vertical Gabor patches of 4 deg diameter horizontally drifting with a speed of 2 deg/sec. Simple LSF and HSF stimuli as well as complex stimuli where both components moved coherently (LSFm + HSFm) were used. These were grouped in the following LSF and HSF pairs: 0.25–0.75, 0.5–1.5, 1–3 and 2–6 c/deg. Each component had a Michelson contrast of 28% or 7%, giving rise to different relative contrast combinations. Most interestingly, the results show a decrease in performance for complex stimuli with respect to each of their simple components when the LSF component has a lower contrast than the HSF one. The decrease depends on the particular spatial frequencies mixed in a stimulus. Further knowledge about the inhibitory mechanism is thus provided, revealing its joint dependency upon contrast and spatial frequency. |
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| spelling | Interaction between motion scales: When performance in motion discrimination is worse for a compound stimulus than for its integrating components Luna del Valle, Raúl Serrano Pedraza, Ignacio 159.93 Motion perception Contrast Spatial frequency Interaction between fine and coarse scales Motion sensors Inhibition Percepción 6106.09 Procesos de Percepción Motion direction discrimination becomes impaired when combinations of drifting high spatial frequency (HSF) and static low spatial frequency (LSF) patterns are merged into a compound stimulus. Such impairment has been suggested to occur due to an interaction between motion sensors tuned to coarse and fine scale spatial patterns. This interaction is modulated by different stimulus parameters like temporal frequency, size, the spectral components mixed, and their relative contrast. The present research precisely aims to explore in a deeper way the interaction’s dependency upon the spatial frequency and the relative contrast of the components when both move coherently. Two experiments were therefore performed measuring duration thresholds (Experiment 1) and proportion of correct responses (Experiment 2) in a motion direction discrimination task. Stimuli were vertical Gabor patches of 4 deg diameter horizontally drifting with a speed of 2 deg/sec. Simple LSF and HSF stimuli as well as complex stimuli where both components moved coherently (LSFm + HSFm) were used. These were grouped in the following LSF and HSF pairs: 0.25–0.75, 0.5–1.5, 1–3 and 2–6 c/deg. Each component had a Michelson contrast of 28% or 7%, giving rise to different relative contrast combinations. Most interestingly, the results show a decrease in performance for complex stimuli with respect to each of their simple components when the LSF component has a lower contrast than the HSF one. The decrease depends on the particular spatial frequencies mixed in a stimulus. Further knowledge about the inhibitory mechanism is thus provided, revealing its joint dependency upon contrast and spatial frequency. Elsevier https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/110959 |
| spellingShingle | Interaction between motion scales: When performance in motion discrimination is worse for a compound stimulus than for its integrating components Luna del Valle, Raúl 159.93 Motion perception Contrast Spatial frequency Interaction between fine and coarse scales Motion sensors Inhibition Percepción 6106.09 Procesos de Percepción |
| title | Interaction between motion scales: When performance in motion discrimination is worse for a compound stimulus than for its integrating components |
| title_full | Interaction between motion scales: When performance in motion discrimination is worse for a compound stimulus than for its integrating components |
| title_fullStr | Interaction between motion scales: When performance in motion discrimination is worse for a compound stimulus than for its integrating components |
| title_full_unstemmed | Interaction between motion scales: When performance in motion discrimination is worse for a compound stimulus than for its integrating components |
| title_short | Interaction between motion scales: When performance in motion discrimination is worse for a compound stimulus than for its integrating components |
| title_sort | Interaction between motion scales: When performance in motion discrimination is worse for a compound stimulus than for its integrating components |
| topic | 159.93 Motion perception Contrast Spatial frequency Interaction between fine and coarse scales Motion sensors Inhibition Percepción 6106.09 Procesos de Percepción |
| topic_facet | 159.93 Motion perception Contrast Spatial frequency Interaction between fine and coarse scales Motion sensors Inhibition Percepción 6106.09 Procesos de Percepción |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/110959 |