Selectivities of Human Visual Mechanisms for Direction of Movement and Contour Orientation*
- 1 August 1968
- journal article
- Published by Optica Publishing Group in Journal of the Optical Society of America
- Vol. 58 (8), 1146-1150
- https://doi.org/10.1364/josa.58.001146
Abstract
The luminance threshold for horizontal contours which move upward is raised by prior exposure of any of wide range of different directions of movement. The threshold for a stationary grating of horizontal bars is raised only by prior exposure of similarly oriented bars. It is also found that sensitivity to changes in orientation of a stationary grating is greater than sensitivity to changes in the direction in which a grating moves. It is proposed that the interactions between pre-exposed adapting stimuli and the stimuli for which thresholds are determined reflect the orientation and direction selectivities of the underlying mechanisms.Keywords
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