The discrimination of speed when the discriminanda are spatially separated and are moving in the same or in different directions

[摘要] The early stages of vision are often represented as parallel arrays of filters tuned to different attributes, such as orientation, spatial frequency or color. The receptive fields of different filters vary in size, but are typically localised to a region of the photoreceptor matrix. But how should we account for the human ability to compare two objects with respect to a particular attribute when discriminanda fall at arbitrary positions in the visual field? For some attributes (e.g. luminance, binocular disparity, temporal phase) discrimination is known to deteriorate as spatial separation increases: These discriminations may depend on dedicated local comparator neurons. But for other attributes (e.g. spatial frequency, orientation, hue, saturation) we have found that thresholds are constant as spatial separation increases, even when stimuli fall in opposite hemifields. We can add speed to the attributes of this latter group.

[学科分类] 眼科学