Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: http://doi.org/10.25358/openscience-7342
Authors: Persike, Malte
Meinhardt, Günter
Title: Effects of spatial frequency similarity and dissimilarity on contour integration
Online publication date: 11-Jul-2022
Year of first publication: 2015
Language: english
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 only to a margin compatible with probability summation when compared to the fully homogenous case. (3) Psychometric functions are steeper but not shifted for homogenous contours in heterogenous backgrounds indicating an advantageous signal-to-noise ratio. The additional similarity cue therefore not so much improves contour detection performance but primarily reduces observer uncertainty about whether a potential candidate is a contour or just a false positive. (4) Contour integration is a broadband mechanism which is only moderately impaired by spatial frequency dissimilarity.
DDC: 150 Psychologie
150 Psychology
Institution: Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz
Department: FB 02 Sozialwiss., Medien u. Sport
Place: Mainz
ROR: https://ror.org/023b0x485
DOI: http://doi.org/10.25358/openscience-7342
Version: Published version
Publication type: Zeitschriftenaufsatz
License: CC0
Information on rights of use: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
Journal: PLoS one
10
6
Pages or article number: e0126449
Publisher: PLoS
Publisher place: Lawrence, Kan.
Issue date: 2015
ISSN: 1932-6203
Publisher URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0126449
Publisher DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0126449
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