Effects of Spatial Frequency Similarity and Dissimilarity on Contour Integration.

ABSTRACT: We examined the effects of spatial frequency similarity and dissimilarity on human contour integration under various conditions of uncertainty. Participants performed a temporal 2AFC contour detection task. Spatial frequency jitter up to 3.0 octaves was applied either to background elements, or to contour and background elements, or to none of both. Results converge on four major findings. (1) Contours defined by spatial frequency similarity alone are only scarcely visible, suggesting the absence of specialized cortical routines for shape detection based on spatial frequency similarity. (2) When orientation collinearity and spatial frequency similarity are combined along a contour, performance amplifies far beyond probability summation when compared to the fully heterogenous condition but

SUBMITTER: Persike M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4461267 | biostudies-literature | 2015

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature