On peripheral and central processes in vision: inferences from an information-processing analysis of masking with patterned stimuli.
On peripheral and central processes in vision: inferences from an information-processing analysis of masking with patterned stimuli.
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DOI:
10.1037/h0033872
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发表时间:
1973
影响因子:
5.4
通讯作者:
M. Turvey
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作者:
M. Turvey
Investigated how masking varies with origin in 9 experiments with naive and experienced undergraduates (N= 36). Stimuli masked the target forms only monoptically (or binocularly), or both monoptically and dichoptically. Peripheral forward and backward masking were described by a simple relation between target stimulus energy and the minimal interval between target offset and mask onset permitting evasion of masking: The minimal interval multiplied by the target energy equaled a constant. Peripheral forward masking, however, was more sensitive to mask intensity than was peripheral backward masking. Central masking, which was primarily backward, was relatively unaffected by stimulus energy and was determined by the interval elapsing between the onsets of the 2 stimuli. The multiplicative and the onset-onset rules characterized, respectively, peripheral and central visual processes. The peripheral processes are viewed as a set of parallel systems or nets signaling crude features of the stimulus and the central processes as a series of decisions conducted, in part, on these features and resulting in stimulus recognition. It is concluded that the peripheral and central processes are related in a concurrent and contingent fashion, apparently occurring in parallel, with the central decisions contingent on the output of the peripheral systems which signal different features at different rates.(4 p. ref.)(PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)