Orientation tuning of curvature adaptation reveals both curvature-polarity-selective and non-selective mechanisms

Journal of Vision

Volumn 9, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 1-11

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

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Contour; Curvature; Orientation; Shape

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; NERVE CELL; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOPHYSICS; ROTATION; VISION;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; FEMALE; FIGURAL AFTEREFFECT; FORM PERCEPTION; HUMANS; MALE; MOTION PERCEPTION; NEURONS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOPHYSICS; ROTATION; VISION, OCULAR;

EID: 77950343692     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15347362     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/9.12.1     Document Type: Article

References (39)

1. Arguin, M., & Saumier, D. (2000). Conjunction and linear non-separability effects in visual shape encoding. Vision Research, 40, 3099-3115.
2. Attneave, F. (1954). Some informational aspects of visual perception. Psychological Review, 61, 183-193.
3. Bell, J., & Badcock, D. R. (2008). Luminance and contrast cues are integrated in global shape detection with contours. Vision Research, 48, 2336-2344.
4. Bell, J., Badcock, D. R., Wilson, H., & Wilkinson, F. (2007). Detection of shape in radial frequency contours: Independence of local and global form information. Vision Research, 47, 1518-1522.
5. Bell, J., Dickinson, J. E., & Badcock, D. R. (2008). Radial frequency adaptation suggests polar-based coding of local shape cues. Vision Research, 48, 2293-2301.
6. Bell, J., & Kingdom, F. A. A. (2009). Global contour shapes are coded differently from their local components. Vision Research, 49, 1702-1710.
7. Biederman, I. (1987). Recognition-by-components: A theory of human image understanding. Psychological Review, 94, 115-147.
8. Blakemore, C., & Over, R. (1974). Curvature detectors in human vision? Perception, 3, 3-7.
9. Cadieu, C., Kouh, M., Pasupathy, A., Connor, C. E., Riesenhuber, M., & Poggio, T. (2007). A model of V4 shape selectivity and invariance. Journal of Neurophysiology, 98, 1733-1750.
10. Connor, C. E. (2004). Shape dimensions and object primitives. In L. M. Chalupa & J. S. Werner (Eds.), The visual neurosciences (pp. 1080-1089). London: MIT Press.
11. Dakin, S. C., & Hess, R. F. (1997). The spatial mechanisms mediating symmetry perception. Vision Research, 37, 2915-2930.
12. Dakin, S. C., & Watt, R. J. (1994). Detection of bilateral symmetry using spatial filters. Spatial Vision, 8, 393-413.
13. Gheorghiu, E., & Kingdom, F. A. (2006). Luminancecontrast properties of contour-shape processing revealed through the shape-frequency after-effect. Vision Research, 46, 3603-3615.
14. Gheorghiu, E., & Kingdom, F. A. (2007a). Chromatic tuning of contour-shape mechanisms revealed through the shape-frequency and shape-amplitude after-effects. Vision Research, 47, 1935-1949.
15. Gheorghiu, E., & Kingdom, F. A. (2007b). The spatial feature underlying the shape-frequency and shapeamplitude after-effects. Vision Research, 47, 834-844.
16. Gheorghiu, E., & Kingdom, F. A. (2008). Spatial properties of curvature-encoding mechanisms revealed through the shape-frequency and shape-amplitude after-effects. Vision Research, 48, 1107-1124.
17. Gheorghiu, E., & Kingdom, F. A. (2009). Multiplication in curvature processing. Journal of Vision, 9(2):23, 1-17, http://journalofvision.org/9/2/23/, doi:10.1167/9.2.23.
18. Gibson, J. J., & Radner, M. (1937). Adaptation, aftereffect and contrast in the perception of tilted lines. Journal of Experimental Psychology, 20, 453-467.
19. Habak, C., Wilkinson, F., & Wilson, H. R. (2006). Dynamics of shape interaction in human vision. Vision Research, 46, 4305-4320.
20. Habak, C., Wilkinson, F., Zakher, B., & Wilson, H. R. (2004). Curvature population coding for complex shapes in human vision. Vision Research, 44, 2815-2823.
21. Hancock, S., & Peirce, J. W. (2008). Selective mechanisms for simple contours revealed by compound adaptation. Journal of Vision, 8(7):11, 1-10, http://journalofvision. org/8/7/11/, doi:10.1167/8.7.11.
22. Loffler, G., Wilson, H. R., & Wilkinson, F. (2003). Local and global contributions to shape discrimination. Vision Research, 43, 519-530.
23. Magnussen, S., & Kurtenbach, W. (1979). A test for contrast-polarity selectivity in the tilt aftereffect. Perception, 8, 523-528.
24. Muller, K. M., Wilke, M., & Leopold, D. A. (2009). Visual adaptation to convexity in macaque area V4. Neuroscience, 161, 655-662.
25. Pasupathy, A., & Connor, C. E. (1999). Responses to contour features in macaque area V4. Journal of Neurophysiology, 82, 2490-2502.
26. Pasupathy, A., & Connor, C. E. (2001). Shape representation in area V4: Position specific tuning for boundary conformation. Journal of Neurophysiology, 86, 2505-2519.[Article]
27. Pasupathy, A., & Connor, C. E. (2002). Population coding of shape in area V4. Nature Neuroscience, 5, 1332-1338.
28. Poirier, F. J., & Wilson, H. R. (2007). Object perception and masking: Contributions of sides and convexities. Vision Research, 47, 3001-3011.
29. Poirier, F. J., & Wilson, H. R. (2006). A biologically plausible model of human radial frequency perception. Vision Research, 46, 2443-2455.
30. Rainville, S. J., & Kingdom, F. A. (2000). The functional role of oriented spatial filters in the perception of mirror symmetry-psychophysics and modeling. Vision Research, 40, 2621-2644.
31. Timney, B. N., & Macdonald, C. (1978). Are curves detected by 'curvature detectors'? Perception, 7, 51-64.
32. Treisman, A., & Gormican, S. (1988). Feature analysis in early vision: Evidence from search asymmetries. Psychological Review, 95, 15-48.
33. Van der Zwan, R., Badcock, D. R., & Parkin, B. (1999). Global form perception: Interactions between luminance and texture information. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Ophthalmology, 27, 268-270.
34. Wagemans, J. (1995). Detection of visual symmetries. Spatial Vision, 9, 9-32.
35. Ware, C., & Mitchell, D. E. (1974). The spatial selectivity of the tilt aftereffect. Vision Research, 14, 735-737.
36. Watt, R. J. (1984). Further evidence concerning the analysis of curvature in human foveal vision. Vision Research, 24, 251-253.
37. Watt, R. J., & Andrews, D. P. (1982). Contour curvature analysis: Hyperacuities in the discrimination of detailed shape. Vision Research, 22, 449-460.
38. Wilson, H. R., & Richards, W. A. (1989). Mechanisms of contour curvature discrimination. Journal of the Optical Society of America A, Optics and Image Science, 6, 106-115.
39. Wilson, H. R., & Wilkinson, F. (2002). Symmetry perception: A novel approach for biological shapes. Vision Research, 42, 589-597.