Constant contour integration in peripheral vision for stimuli with good Gestalt properties

Journal of Vision

Volumn 6, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 1412-1420

  Kuai, Shu Guang ^a,b   Yu, Cong ^a,b  

^a BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

Contour integration; Good Gestalt; Peripheral vision

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NOISE REDUCTION; NORMAL HUMAN; PERIPHERAL VISION; RETINA FOVEA; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SPATIAL FREQUENCY DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL FIELD; VISUAL STIMULATION; VISUAL SYSTEM;

CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; CUES; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); FORM PERCEPTION; HUMANS; ORIENTATION; PERCEPTUAL CLOSURE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; VISUAL FIELDS;

EID: 33845753980     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15347362     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/6.12.7     Document Type: Article

References (22)

1. Braun, J. (1999). On the detection of salient contours. Spatial Vision, 12, 211-225. [PubMed]
2. Field, D. J., Hayes, A., & Hess, R. F. (1993). Contour integration by the human visual system: Evidence for a local "association field." Vision Research, 33, 173-193. [PubMed]
3. Geisler, W. S., Perry, J. S., Super, B. J., & Gallogly, D. P. (2001). Edge co-occurrence in natural images predicts contour grouping performance. Vision Research, 41, 711-724. [PubMed]
4. Gilbert, C., Ito, M., Kapadia, M., & Westheimer, G. (2000). Interactions between attention, context and learning in primary visual cortex. Vision Research, 40, 1217-1226. [PubMed]
5. He, S., Cavanagh, P., & Intriligator, J. (1996). Attentional resolution and the locus of visual awareness. Nature, 383, 334-337. [PubMed]
6. Hess, R. F., & Dakin, S. C. (1997). Absence of contour linking in peripheral vision. Nature, 390, 602-604. [PubMed]
7. Hess, R. F., & Dakin, S. C. (1999). Contour integration in the peripheral field. Vision Research, 39, 947-959. [PubMed]
8. Hess, R., & Field, D. (1999). Integration of contours: New insights. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 3, 480-486. [PubMed]
9. Hess, R. F., Hayes, A., & Field, D. J. (2003). Contour integration and cortical processing. Journal of Physiology, 97, 105-119. [PubMed]
10. Ito, M., & Gilbert, C. D. (1999). Attention modulates contextual influences in the primary visual cortex of alert monkeys. Neuron, 22, 593-604. [PubMed] [Article]
11. Kapadia, M. K., Westheimer, G., & Gilbert, C. D. (2000). Spatial distribution of contextual interactions in primary visual cortex and in visual perception. Journal of Neurophysiology, 84, 2048-2062. [PubMed] [Article]
12. Kovacs, I., & Julesz, B. (1993). A closed curve is much more than an incomplete one: Effect of closure in figure-ground segmentation. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 90, 7495-7497. [PubMed] [Article]
13. Levitt, H. (1971). Transformed up-down methods in psychoacoustics. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 49, 467-477. [PubMed]
14. Li, Z. (1998). A neural model of contour integration in the primary visual cortex. Neural Computation, 13, 903-940. [PubMed]
15. Nugent, A. K., Keswani, R. N., Woods, R. L., & Peli, E. (2003). Contour integration in peripheral vision reduces gradually with eccentricity. Vision Research, 43, 2427-2437. [PubMed]
16. Orbach, H. S., & Wilson, H. R. (1999). Factors limiting peripheral pattern discrimination. Spatial Vision, 12, 83-106. [PubMed]
17. Pettet, M. W. (1999). Shape and contour detection. Vision Research, 39, 551-557. [PubMed]
18. Pettet, M. W., McKee, S. P., & Grzywacz, N. M. (1998). Constraints on long range interactions mediating contour detection. Vision Research, 38, 865-879. [PubMed]
19. Rubin, N., Nakayama, K., & Shapley, R. (1996). Enhanced perception of illusory contours in the lower versus upper visual hemifields. Science, 271, 651-653. [PubMed]
20. Sigman, M., Cecchi, G. A., Gilbert, C. D., & Magnasco, M. O. (2001). On a common circle: Natural scenes and Gestalt rules. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 98, 1935-1940. [PubMed] [Article]
21. Tversky, T., Geisler, W. S., & Perry, J. S. (2004). Contour grouping: Closure effects are explained by good continuation and proximity. Vision Research, 44, 2769-2777. [PubMed]
22. Van Essen, D. C., Newsome, W. T., & Maunsell, J. H. (1984). The visual field representation in striate cortex of the macaque monkey: Asymmetries, anisotropies, and individual variability. Vision Research, 24, 429-448. [PubMed]