IMPLICATIONS OF SUSTAINED AND TRANSIENT CHANNELS FOR THEORIES OF VISUAL-PATTERN MASKING, SACCADIC SUPPRESSION, AND INFORMATION-PROCESSING
IMPLICATIONS OF SUSTAINED AND TRANSIENT CHANNELS FOR THEORIES OF VISUAL-PATTERN MASKING, SACCADIC SUPPRESSION, AND INFORMATION-PROCESSING
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DOI:
10.1037/0033-295x.83.1.1
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发表时间:
1976-01-01
影响因子:
5.4
通讯作者:
GANZ, L
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作者:
BREITMEYER, BG;GANZ, L
Reviews the visual masking literature in the context of known neurophysiological and psychophysical properties of the visual system's spatiotemporal response. The literature indicates that 3 consistent and typical pattern masking effects—(a) Type B forward or paracontrast,(b) Type B backward or metacontrast, and (c) Type A forward and backward—can be explained in terms of 3 simple sensory processes. It is hypothesized that sustained channels are involved in the processing of structural or figural information, whereas transient channels are involved in signaling the spatial location or change in spatial location (ie, the motion) of a stimulus. In the proposed model, Type B forward masking or paracontrast is mediated via lateral inhibition realized in the center-surround antagonism of the receptive fields of the sustained cells. In apposition to this mechanism of intrachannel inhibition, Type B backward masking or metacontrast is produced by a mechanism of interchannel inhibition (ie, transient cells laterally inhibit the activity of sustained cells). Both mechanisms are assumed to be operating at or prior to the contour-forming levels of visual processing. Type A masking effects are explained in terms of sensory integration of sustained channel information at preiconic and iconic levels of visual processing. The implications of this multichannel model for saccadic-suppression and information-processing approaches to pattern recognition are discussed.(5 p ref)(PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)