Subjective contours - bridging the gap between psychophysics and physiology
Subjective contours - bridging the gap between psychophysics and physiology
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主观轮廓——弥合心理物理学和生理学之间的差距
DOI:
10.1016/0166-2236(91)90072-3
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发表时间:
1991
影响因子:
15.9
通讯作者:
R. Heydt
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文献类型:
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作者:
E. Peterhans;R. Heydt
Much is known about the initial stages of visual processing up to the striate cortex, but how is visual information represented and handled at subsequent stages? Phenomena of contour, color and movement perception have been used to identify functions of neurons and to reveal functional differences between cortical areas that application of classical receptive-field concepts has not suggested. These differences can be related to theoretical stages of visual processing that provide stability of perception under changing conditions of stimulation.Psychophysical methods have long been used to investigate physiological processes that were hidden in the brain and, when physiological data eventually became available, they often confLrmed the conclusions drawn from psychophysical experiments, or indicated a correlation between the physiological and psychophysical phenomena. The measurements of cone absorption spectra, for example, confirmed the Young-Helmholtz theory of color vision and demonstrated the physiological correlate of trichromatism. More often, however, particularly in recent decades, physiological studies have led to findings that neither confirmed expectations nor provided correlates of known psychophysical concepts, such as the receptive fields of cortical neurons. Physiology became emancipated, so to speak, and was used independently to study vision. However, many authors have since studied visual cortical processing without reference to perception. Indeed, it might appear to be pointless to try to find corresponding physiological data for the vast variety of psychophysical phenomena. Yet physiology needs to be linked to perception. The complexity of the visual cortex defies an approach that is comparable to taking a clock apart in order to understand its function 1.
影响因子:
4.4
作者:
Burns,FR;Gray,RD;Paterson,CA
通讯作者:
Paterson,CA