Luminance-contrast properties of contour-shape processing revealed through the shape-frequency after-effect

Vision Research

Volumn 46, Issue 21, 2006, Pages 3603-3615

  Gheorghiu, Elena ^a   Kingdom, Frederick A A ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Blur; Contour shape; Contrast; Contrast polarity; Shape frequency after effect

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LUMINANCE; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY; STIMULUS RESPONSE; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL STIMULATION; VISUAL SYSTEM;

COMPUTER GRAPHICS; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; FIGURAL AFTEREFFECT; FORM PERCEPTION; HUMANS; LIGHTING; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOPHYSICS;

EID: 33748415308     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2006.04.021     Document Type: Article

References (81)

1. Albright T.D. Form-cue invariant motion processing in primate visual cortex. Science 255 (1992) 1141-1143
2. Anderson N.D., Habak C., Wilkinson F., and Wilson H.R. Evaluating curvature aftereffects with radial frequency contours. Journal of Vision 5 7 (2005) 209 [Abstract]
3. Anderson N.D., and Wilson H.R. The nature of synthetic face adaptation. Vision Research 45 (2005) 1815-1828
4. Blake R., Overton R., and Lema-Stern S. Interocular transfer of visual aftereffects. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance 7 2 (1981) 367-381
5. Blakemore C., and Over R. Curvature detectors in human vision?. Perception 3 (1974) 3-7
6. Blakemore C., and Sutton P. Size adaptation: a new aftereffect. Science 166 (1969) 245-247
7. Bonds A.B. Role of inhibition in the specification of orientation selectivity of cells in the cat striate cortex. Visual Neuroscience 2 1 (1989) 41-55
8. Bonds A.B. Temporal dynamics of contrast gain in single cells of the cat striate cortex. Visual Neuroscience 6 3 (1991) 239-255
9. Burton G.J., Nagshineh S., and Ruddock K.H. Processing by the human visual system of the light and dark contrast components of the retinal image. Biological Cybernetics 27 4 (1977) 189-197
10. Chaudhuri A., and Albright T.D. Neuronal responses to edges defined by luminance vs. temporal texture in macaque area V1. Visual Neuroscience 14 5 (1997) 949-962
11. Desimone R., Schein S.J., Moran J., and Ungerleider L.G. Contour, color and shape analysis beyond the striate cortex. Vision Research 25 3 (1985) 441-452
12. Desimone R., and Schein S.J. Visual properties of neurons in area V4 of the macaque: sensitivity to stimulus form. Journal of Neurophysiology. 57 3 (1987) 835-868
13. DeValois K.K. Independence of black and white: phase-specific adaptation. Vision Research 17 (1977) 209-215
14. DeValois K.K. Spatial frequency adaptation can enhance contrast sensitivity. Vision Research 17 9 (1977) 1057-1065
15. DeValois R.L., and DeValois K.K. Spatial vision (1988), Oxford University Press, Oxford
16. Durgin F.H. Visual aftereffect of texture density contingent on color of frame. Perception and Psychophysics 58 2 (1996) 207-223
17. Durgin F.H. Texture contrast aftereffects ate monocular; texture density aftereffects are binocular. Vision Research 41 20 (2001) 2619-2630
18. Durgin F.H., and Proffitt D.R. Visual learning in the perception of texture: simple and contingent aftereffects of texture density. Spatial Vision 9 4 (1996) 423-474
19. Durgin F.H., and Huk A.C. Texture density aftereffects in the perception of artificial and natural textures. Vision Research 37 23 (1997) 3273-3282
20. Elder J.H., and Sachs A.J. Psychophysical receptive fields of edge detection mechanisms. Vision Research 44 8 (2004) 795-813
21. Fiorentini A., Baumgartner G., Magnusson S., Schiller P.H., and Thomas J.P. The perception of brightness and darkness: Relations to neuronal receptive fields. In: Spillman L., and Werner J.S. (Eds). Visual perception: The neurophysiological foundations (1990), Academic Press, San Diego, CA
22. Gallant J.L., Braun J., and van Essen D.C. Selectivity for polar, hyperbolic and Cartesian gratings in macaque visual cortex. Science 259 5091 (1993) 1100-1103
23. Gallant J.L., Connor C.E., Rakshit S., Lewis J.W., and van Essen D.C. Neural responses to polar, hyperbolic and Cartesian gratings in area V4 of the macaque monkey. Journal of Neurophysiology 76 4 (1996) 2718-2839
24. Greenlee M.W., and Heitger F. The functional role of contrast adaptation. Vision Research 28 7 (1988) 791-797
25. Greenlee M.W., and Thomas J.P. Effect of pattern adaptation on spatial frequency discrimination. Journal of the Optical Society of America A 9 6 (1992) 857-862
26. Greenlee M.W., and Thomas J.P. Simultaneous discrimination of the spatial frequency and contrast of periodic stimuli. Journal of the Optical Society of America A 10 3 (1993) 395-404
27. Gross C.G. Representation of visual stimuli in inferior temporal cortex. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society London Series B 335 1273 (1992) 3-10 [Review]
28. Habak C., Wilkinson F., Zahker B., and Wilson H.R. Curvature population coding for complex shapes in human vision. Vision Research 44 (2004) 2815-2823
29. Hanly M., and MacKay D.M. Polarity-sensitive perceptual adaptation to sawtooth modulation of luminance. Experimental Brain Research 35 1 (1979) 37-46
30. Hammett S.T., Snowden R.J., and Smith A.T. Perceived contrast as a function of adaptation duration. Vision Research 34 1 (1994) 31-40
31. Harris J.P., and Calvert J.E. Contrast, spatial frequency and test duration effects on the tilt aftereffect: implications for underlying mechanisms. Vision Research 29 1 (1989) 129-135
32. Hayes A., Kingdom F.A.A., and Prins N. The detection of smooth curves in jagged contours. Perception 31 supplement (2002) 153 [Abstract]
33. He Z.J., and Ooi T.L. Illusory-contour formation affected by luminance contrast polarity. Perception 27 3 (1998) 313-335
34. Heeger D.J. Normalization of cell responses in cat striate cortex. Visual Neuroscience 9 2 (1992) 181-197
35. Held R., Shattuck-Hufnagel S., and Moskowitz A. Color-contingent tilt aftereffect: spatial frequency specificity. Vision Research 22 7 (1982) 811-817
36. Hess R.F., Wang Y.Z., and Dakin S.C. Are judgments of circularity local or global?. Vision Research 39 26 (1999) 4354-4360
37. Hesse G.S., and Georgeson M.A. Edges and bars: where do people see features in 1D images?. Vision Research 45 4 (2005) 507-525
38. Huang P.-C., Kingdom F.A.A., and Hess R.F. Two phase mechanisms, ±cosine, in human vision. Vision Research 46 13 (2006) 2069-2081
39. Ito M., Fujita I., Tamura H., and Tanaka K. Processing of contrast polarity of visual images in inferotemporal cortex of the macaque monkey. Cerebral cortex 4 5 (1994) 499-508
40. Keeble D.R.T., and Hess R.F. Discriminating local continuity in curved figures. Vision Research 39 (1999) 3287-3299
41. Kingdom F.A.A., and Gheorghiu E. On the mechanisms for contour-shape after effects. Journal of Vision 6 6 (2006) 339a
42. Kingdom F.A.A., and Prins N. Different mechanisms encode the shapes of contours and contour-textures. Journal of Vision 5 8 (2005) 463 [Abstract]
43. Kingdom F.A.A., and Prins N. Separate after-effects for the shapes of contours and textures made from contours. Perception 34 supplement (2005) 92 [Abstract]
44. Kobatake E., and Tanaka K. Neuronal selectivities to complex object features in the ventral visual pathway of the macaque cerebral cortex. Journal of Neurophysiology 71 3 (1994) 856-867
45. Kramer D., and Fahle M. A simple mechanism for detecting low curvatures. Vision Research 36 10 (1996) 1411-1419
46. Koenderink J.J., and Richards W. Two-dimensional curvature operators. Journal of the Optical Society of America A 5 (1988) 1136-1141
47. Leventhal A.G., Wang Y., Schmolesky M.T., and Zhou Y. Neural correlates of boundary perception. Visual Neuroscience 15 6 (1998) 1107-1118
48. Levi D.M., and Klein S.A. Seeing circles: what limits shape perception?. Vision Research 40 17 (2000) 2329-2339
49. Loffler G., Wilson H.R., and Wilkinson F. Local and global contributions to shape discrimination. Vision Research 43 (2003) 519-530
50. Magnussen S., and Kurtenbach W. A test for contrast-polarity selectivity in the tilt aftereffect. Perception 8 5 (1979) 523-528
51. Marr D. Vision: A computational investigation into the human representation and processing of visual information (1982), W.H. Freeman, San Francisco
52. Marr D., and Hildreth E. Theory of edge detection. Proceedings of the Royal society of London B 207 (1980) 187-217
53. Moronne M.C., and Burr D.C. Feature detection in human vision: a phase-dependent energy model. Proceedings of the Royal society of London B 235 (1988) 221-245
54. Pantle A., and Sekuler R. Size-detecting mechanisms in human vision. Science. 6 162 858 (1968) 1146-1148
55. Pasupathy A., and Connor C.E. Responses to contour features in macaque area V4. Journal of Neurophysiology 82 5 (1999) 2490-2502
56. Pasupathy A., and Connor C.E. Shape representation in area V4: position-specific tuning for boundary conformation. Journal of Neurophysiology 86 5 (2001) 2505-2519
57. Pasupathy A., and Connor C.E. Population coding of shape in area V4. Nature Neuroscience 5 12 (2002) 1332-1338
58. Regan D., and Hamstra S.J. Shape discrimination and the judgment of perfect symmetry: dissociation of shape from size. Vision Research 32 10 (1992) 1845-1864
59. Rolls E.T., and Baylis G.C. Size and contrast have only small effects on the responses to faces of neurons in the cortex of the superior temporal sulcus of the monkey. Experimental Brain Research 65 1 (1986) 38-48
60. Scalar G., Ohzawa I., and Freeman R.D. Contrast gain control in the cat visual cortex. Nature 298 5871 (1982) 266-268
61. Scalar G., Ohzawa I., and Freeman R.D. Contrast gain control in the cat's visual system. Journal of Neurophysiology 54 3 (1985) 651-657
62. Schiller P.H. Central connections of the retinal ON and OFF pathways. Nature 297 5867 (1982) 580-583
63. Schiller P.H. The connections of the retinal on and off pathways to the lateral geniculate nucleus of the monkey. Vision Research 24 9 (1984) 923-932
64. Schiller P.H., Sandell J.H., and Maunsell J.H. Functions of the ON and OFF channels of the visual system. Nature 322 6082 (1986) 824-825
65. Snowden R.J. Adaptability of the visual system is inversely related to its sensitivity. Journal of the Optical Society of America A, Optics and Image Science 11 1 (1994) 25-32
66. Stromeyer III C.F., and Riggs L.A. Curvature detectors in human vision?. Science 14 184 142 (1974) 1199-1201
67. Suzuki S. Attention-dependent brief adaptation to contour orientation: a high-level aftereffect for convexity?. Vision Research 41 (2001) 3883-3902
68. Suzuki S. Attentional selection of overlapped shapes: a study using brief shape aftereffects. Vision Research 43 (2003) 549-561
69. Suzuki S., and Cavanagh P. A shape-contrast effect for briefly presented stimuli. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance 24 5 (1998) 1315-1341
70. Tanaka K. Inferotemporal cortex and object vision. Annu. Rev. Neurosci. 19 (1996) 109-139
71. Tyler C.W. Periodic vernier acuity. Journal of Physiology 228 3 (1973) 637-647
72. Yamashita J.A., Hardy J.L., De Valois K.K., and Webster M.A. Stimulus selectivity of figural aftereffects for faces. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance 31 3 (2005) 420-437
73. Watt R.J. Visual processing (1988), L Erlbaum Associates, Hove and London
74. Watt R.J., and Andrews D.P. Contour curvature analysis: hyperacuities in the discrimination of detailed shape. Vision Research 22 4 (1982) 449-460
75. Watt R.J., and Morgan M.J. Spatial filters and the localization of luminance changes in human vision. Vision Research 24 10 (1985) 1387-1397
76. Wilkinson F., Wilson H.R., and Habak C. Detection and recognition of radial- frequency patterns. Vision Research 38 (1998) 3555-3568
77. Wilson H.R. Responses of spatial mechanisms can explain hyperacuities. Vision Research 26 3 (1986) 453-469
78. Wilson, H. R. (1991). Pattern discrimination, visual filters and spatial sampling irregularity. In Movshon J. A. & Landy M. S: Computational models of visual processing.
79. Wilson H.R., and Humanski R. Spatial frequency adaptation and contrast gain control. Vision Research 33 8 (1993) 1133-1149
80. Wilson H.R., and Richards W.A. Mechanisms of contour curvature discrimination. Journal of the Optical Society of America A 6 (1989) 106-115
81. Wilson H.R., and Richards W.A. Curvature and separation discrimination at texture boundaries. Journal of the Optical Society of America A 9 10 (1992) 1653-1662