Magnitude of perceived change in natural images may be linearly proportional to differences in neuronal firing rates

Seeing and Perceiving

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 349-372

  Tolhurst, David J ^a   To, Michelle P S ^a   Chirimuuta, Mazviita ^a   Troscianko, Tom ^b   Chua, Pei Ying ^a   Lovell, P George ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Natural images; Ratings; Transducer function; V1 model

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL MODEL; CONTRAST DISCRIMINATION; FIRING RATES; IMAGE PAIRS; LINEARLY PROPORTIONAL; MAGNITUDE ESTIMATION; NATURAL IMAGES; NATURAL SCENES; NEURONAL FIRINGS; NEURONAL RESPONSE; NUMERICAL OUTPUT; NUMERICAL PARAMETERS; SUPRATHRESHOLD; TRANSDUCER FUNCTION; WEBER-FECHNER;

EXPERIMENTS; PHOTOGRAPHY; RATING;

OBSERVABILITY;

CINCLIDAE;

ARTICLE; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; HUMAN; MEMORY; NERVE CELL; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; THEORETICAL MODEL;

CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); HUMANS; MEMORY; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NEURONS; PHOTIC STIMULATION;

EID: 79958014537     PISSN: 18784755     EISSN: 18784763     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/187847510X532676     Document Type: Article

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