Necessity of spatial pooling for the perception of heading in nonrigid environments
Necessity of spatial pooling for the perception of heading in nonrigid environments
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DOI:
10.1037//0096-1523.28.5.1192
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发表时间:
2002-10-01
影响因子:
2.1
通讯作者:
Saidpour, A
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作者:
Andersen, GJ;Saidpour, A
This study examined whether the perception of heading is determined by spatially pooling velocity information. Observers were presented displays simulating observer motion through a volume of 3-D objects. To test the importance of spatial pooling, the authors systematically varied the nonrigidity of the flow field using two types of object motion: adding a unique rotation or translation to each object. Calculations of the signal-to-noise (observer velocity-to-object motion) ratio indicated no decrements in performance when the ratio was .39 for object rotation and .45 for object translation. Performance also increased with the number of objects in the scene. These results suggest that heading is determined by mechanisms that use spatial pooling over large regions.