Learning a grating discrimination task broadens human spatial frequency tuning

Biological Cybernetics

Volumn 84, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 383-400

  Meinhardt, G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMAN; LEARNING; TASK PERFORMANCE;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; LEARNING; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS;

EID: 0035347876     PISSN: 03401200     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/PL00007983     Document Type: Article

References (58)

1. Allman J, Miezin F, McGuinness EL (1985) Stimulus specific responses from beyond the classical receptive field. Ann Rev Neurosci 8: 407-430
2. Baldi P, Heiligenberg W (1988) How sensory maps could enhance resolution through ordered arrangements of broadly tuned receivers. Biol Cybern 59: 313-318
3. Beard BL, Levi DM, Reich LN (1995) Perceptual learning in parafoveal vision. Vision Res 35: 1679-1690
4. Crist RE, Kapadia MK, Westheimer G, Gilbert C (1997) Perceptual learning of spatial localization: specificity for orientation, position, and context. J Neurophysiol 78: 2889-2894
5. Das A, Gilbert CD (1995a) Long-range horizontal connections and their role in cortical reorganization revealed by optical recording of cat primary visual cortex. Nature 375: 780-784
6. Das A, Gilbert CD (1995b) Receptive field expansion in adult visual cortex is linked to dynamic changes in strength of cortical connections. J Neurophysiol 74: 779-792
7. De Valois RL, De Valois KK (1988) Spatial Vision. Oxford University Press, Oxford
8. Du Buf JMH (1992) Modeling spatial vision at the threshold level. Spatial Vision 6: 25-60
9. Du Buf JMH (1993) Responses of simple cells: events, interferences and ambiguities. Biol Cybern 68: 321-333
10. Eurich CW, Schwegler H (1997) Coarse coding: calculation of the resolution achieved by a population of large receptive field neurons. Biol Cybern 76: 357-363
11. Eurich CW, Schwegler H, Woesler R (1997) Coarse coding: application to the visual system of salamanders. Biol Cybern 77: 41-47
12. Fiorentini A, Beradi PE (1981) Learning in grating waveform discrimination: specificity for orientation and spatial frequency. Vision Res 21: 1149-1158
13. Gilbert CD (1996) Learning and receptive field plasticity. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 93: 10546-10547
14. Gilbert CD, Wiesel TN (1990) The influence of contextual stimuli on the orientation selectivity of cells in primary visual cortex of the cat. Vision Res 30: 1689-1701
15. Gilbert CD, Das A, Ito M, Kapadia M, Westheimer G (1996) Spatial integration and cortical dynamics. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 931: 615-622
16. Graham N (1989) Visual pattern analyzers. Oxford University Press, Oxford
17. Graham N, Beck J, Sutter A (1992) Nonlinear processes in spatial frequency channel models of perceived texture segregation: Effects of sign and amount of contrast. Vision Res 32: 719-743
18. Hauske G, Wolf W, Lupp U (1976) Matched filters in human vision. Biol Cybern 22: 181-188
19. Hauske G, Lupp U, Wolf W (1978) Matched filters - a new concept in vision. Soc Photogr Sci Eng 20: 59-64
20. Hinton GE (1981) Shape representation in parallel systems. In: Proceedings of the Seventh International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Vancouver, Canada, pp 1088-1096
21. Hirsch J, Hylton R (1982) Limits of spatial frequency discrimination as evidence for neural interpolation. J Opt Soc Am 72: 1367-1374
22. Hübner R (1996) Specific effects of spatial-frequency uncertainty and different cue types on contrast detection: data and Models. Vision Res 36: 3429-3439
23. Jones JP, Palmer LA (1987) An evaluation of the two-dimensional Gabor filter model of simple receptive fields in cat striate cortex. J Neurophysiol 58: 1233-1258
24. Kapadia MK, Westheimer G, Gilbert CD (1999) Dynamics of spatial summation in primary visual cortex of alert monekeys. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 96: 12073-12078
25. Karni A, Sagi D (1991) Where practice makes perfect in texture discrimination: evidence for primary visual cortex plasticity. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 88: 4966-4970
26. Kirkwood A, Rioult MG, Bear MF (1996) Experience-dependent modification of synaptic plasticity in visual cortex. Nature 381: 526-528
27. Kulikowski JJ, King-Smith PE (1973) Spatial arrangement of line, edge and grating detectors revealed by subthreshold summation. Vision Res 13: 1455-1478
28. Lee DK, Koch C, Braun J (1997) Spatial vision thresholds in the near absence of attention. Vision Res 37: 2409-2418
29. McKee SP, Westheimer G (1978) Improvement in vernier acuity with practice. Percep Psychophys 24: 258-262
30. Meinhardt G (2000) Detection of compound spatial patterns: further evidence for different channel interactions. Biol Cybern 82: 269-282
31. Meinhardt G (2001) Detection of sinusoidal gratings by pattern specific detectors: further evidence for the correlation principle in human vision. Biol Cybern (in press)
32. Meinhardt G, Mortensen U (1998) Detection of aperiodic test patterns by pattern specific detectors revealed by subthreshold summation. Biol Cybern 79: 413-425
33. Moran J, Desimone R (1985) Selective attention gates visual processing in the extrastriate cortex. Science 229: 782-784
34. Mortensen U, Meinhardt G (2001) Detection of simple radially symmetric targets: further evidence for the matched filter processing scheme in human pattern detection. Biol Cybern 84: 63-74
35. Mortensen U, Nachtigall C (2000) Visual channels, Hebbian assemblies and the effect of Hebb's rule. Biol Cybern 82: 401-413
36. Mussap A, Levi DM (1997) Vernier acuity with plaid masks: The role of oriented filters in vernier acuity. Vision Res 37: 1325-1340
37. Nachmias J, Weber A (1975) Discrimination of simple and complex gratings. Vision Res 15: 217-223
38. Olzak LA, Thomas JP (1981) "Gratings": why frequency discrimination is sometimes better than detection. J Opt Soc Am 71: 64-70
39. Olzak LA, Thomas JP (1992) Configural effects constrain Fourier models of pattern discrimination. Vision Res 32: 1885-1898
40. Pettet MW, Gilbert CD (1992) Dynamic changes in receptive-field size in cat primary visual cortex. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 89: 8366-8370
41. Poggio T, Fahle M, Edelman S (1992) Fast perceptual learning in visual hyperacuity. Science 256: 1018-1021
42. Quick RF (1974) A vector-magnitude model for contrast detection. Kybernetik 16: 65-67
43. Regan D, Beverley KI (1983) Spatial frequency discrimination and detection: comparison of postadaptation thresholds. J Opt Soc Am 73: 1684-1690
44. Robson JG, Graham N (1981) Probability summation and regional variation in contrast sensitivity across the visual field. Vision Res 21: 409-418
45. Saarinen J, Levi DM (1995) Perceptual learning in vernier acuity: what is learnt? Vision Res 35: 519-527
46. Spitzer H, Desimone R, Moran J (1988) Increased attention enhances both behavioral and neuronal performance. Science 240: 338-340
47. Steward AL, Pinkham RS (1991) A space-variant differential operator for visual sensitivity. Biol Cybern 64: 373-379
48. Thomas JP, Gille J (1979) Bandwidths of orientation channels in human vision. J Opt Soc Am 69: 652-660
49. Togerson WS (1965) Multidimensional scaling and similarity. Psychometrika 30: 379-393
50. Watson AB (1982) Summation of grating patches indicates many types of detector at one retinal location. Vision Res 22: 17-25
51. Waugh SJ, Levi DM, Carney T (1993) Orientation, masking, and vernier acuity for line targets. Vision Res 33: 991-995
52. Wilson HR (1986) Responses of spatial mechanisms can explain hyperacuity. Vision Res 26: 453-369
53. Wilson HR, Gelb DJ (1984) Modified line-element theory for spatial frequency and width discrimination. J Opt Soc Am 1: 124-131
54. Wilson HR, Regan DJ (1984) Spatial frequency adaptation and grating discrimination: predictions of a line-element model. J Opt Soc Am 1: 1091-1096
55. Wilson HR, McFarlane DK, Philipps GC (1983) Spatial frequency tuning of orientation selective units estimated by oblique masking. Vision Res 23: 873-882
56. Yager D, Kramer P, Shaw M, Graham N (1984) Detection and discrimination of spatial frequency: models and data. Vision Res 24: 1021-1035
57. Young RA (1979) The Gaussian derivative model for spatial vision. I. Retinal mechanisms. Spatial Vision 2: 273-293
58. Zohary E, Celebrini S, Britten KH, Newsome WT (1994) Neural plasticity underlies improvement in perceptual performance. Science 263: 1289-1291