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Facilitative and inhibitory factors in visual texture discrimination

journal contribution
posted on 1980-11-01, 00:00 authored by Terry Caelli
In this paper we consider some spatial and temporal properties of visual textures which either inhibit or enhance their discrimination. From exposure time and texture mixing studies two findings emerge. First, it is clear that the spatial summation process involved in texture discrimination has a time course consistent with counting models for decision making. Secondly, the receptive field structures of salient texture features, in particular-orientation, seem to involve simple excitatory center and inhibitory surround mechanisms.

History

Journal

Biological Cybernetics

Volume

39

Pagination

21-26

Location

Heidelberg, Germany

ISSN

0340-1200

eISSN

1432-0770

Language

eng

Publication classification

C1 Refereed article in a scholarly journal

Copyright notice

1980, Springer-Verlag

Issue

1

Publisher

Springer