How many positions can we perceptually encode, one or many?

Vision Research

Volumn 43, Issue 14, 2003, Pages 1575-1587

  Hess, R F ^a   Barnes, G ^b   Dumoulin, S O ^a   Dakin, S C ^c  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b ASTON UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c NONE

Author keywords

Positional accuracy; Positional coding; Relative position

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EYE POSITION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPATIAL DISCRIMINATION; SPATIAL SUMMATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; VARIANCE; VISION; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL FIELD; VISUAL STIMULATION; VISUAL SYSTEM;

EID: 0037716393     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0042-6989(03)00122-6     Document Type: Article

References (19)

1. Allik J., Tuulmets T. Occupancy model of perceived numerosity. Perceprion and Psychphysics. 49:1991;303-314.
2. Barlow H.B. Retinal noise and absolute threshold. Journal of Optical Society of America. 46:1956;634-638.
3. Brainard, D. H. (1997). The Psychophysics Toolbox. 10, 433-446.
4. Carney T., Klein S.A. Optimal spatial localization is limited by contrast sensitivity. Vision Research. 39:1999;503-511.
5. Dakin S.C. An information limit on the spatial integration of local orientation signals. Journal of the Optical society of America A. 18:2001;1016-1026.
6. Hess R.F., Holliday I.E. Primitives used in the spatial localization of non-abutting stimuli: Peaks or Centroids? Vision Research. 36:1996;3821-3826.
7. Marr D. Vision. 1982;Freeman, San Francisco, California.
8. Pelli D.G. The videotoolbox software for visual psychophysics: Transforming numbers into movies. Spatial Vision. 10:1997;437-442.
9. Pelli D.G., Zhang L. Accurate control of contrast on microcomputer displays. Vision Research. 31:1991;1337-1347.
10. Ross J., Morrone M., Burr D.C. Compression of visual space before saccades. Nature. 384:1997;598-601.
11. Toet A., Koenderink J.J. Differential spatial displacement discriminations for Gabor patches. Vision Research. 28:1988;133-143.
12. Van Essen D.C., Anderson C.H., Felleman D.J. Information processing in the primate visual system: An integrated systems perspective. Science. 255:1992;419-423.
13. Watt R.J. Visual processing: computational, psychophysical and cognitive research. 1988;Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, London.
14. Watt R.J., Andrews D. APE: Adaptive probit estimation of psychometric functions. Current Psychological Review. 1:1981;205-214.
15. Watt R.J., Hess R.F. Spatial information and uncertainty in anisometropic amblyopia. Vision Research. 27:1987;661-674.
16. Watt R.J., Morgan M.J. Mechanisms responsible for the assessment of visual location: Theory and evidence. Vision Research. 23:1983;97-109.
17. Waugh S.J. Masks reveal temporal processing of position. Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science. 39(suppl):1998;s622.
18. Weibull W. A statistical distribution function of wide applicability. Journal of Applied Mechanics. 18:1951;292-297.
19. Zeevi Y.Y., Mangoubi S.S. Vernier acuity with noisy lines: Estimation of relative positional uncertainty. Biological Cybernetics. 50:1984;371-376.