Integration of contours: new insights

R Hess, D Field - Trends in cognitive sciences, 1999 - cell.com
Psychophysical, neurophysiological and anatomical research of the last few years has
converged on a new explanation of how the components of a contour become integrated …

Compulsory averaging of crowded orientation signals in human vision

L Parkes, J Lund, A Angelucci, JA Solomon… - Nature …, 2001 - nature.com
A shape can be more difficult to identify when other shapes are near it. For example, when
several grating patches are viewed parafoveally, observers are unable to report the …

[HTML][HTML] Measurement and modeling of center-surround suppression and enhancement

J ** - Current Biology, 2003 - cell.com
Attention can modulate sensitivity to local stimuli in early vision [1–6]. But, can attention also
modulate integration of local stimuli into global visual patterns? We recently measured …

Collinear facilitation is largely uncertainty reduction

Y Petrov, P Verghese, SP McKee - Journal of vision, 2006 - jov.arvojournals.org
When flanked by collinear Gabor patches, detection thresholds for a target Gabor patch
improve by up to a factor of 2. This result has been interpreted as evidence for collinear …