We grew up thinking that all our channels are always available, waiting to be used, like the strings in a piano. Majaj et al. (2002 & this VSS) show that observers identifying letters or reading use only one spatial frequency channel, determined by the stroke frequency of the letters. We show that this is also true for faces and line drawings of common objects. There are indications that our visual system assigns an independent neural assembly to each perceived object/event in order to estimate speed or orientation, or track position (Verghese & Stone, 1995; Berger et al., submitted; Pylyshyn, 1989). Are all these mechanisms—channels, estimators, and trackers—just different aspects of the same neural assembly, synthesized, bottom-up, by the visual system, to represent each perceived object/event?
One channel per object? / Pelli, Denis G.; Martelli, Marialuisa; Majaj, Najib J.; Berger, Tracey D.. - In: JOURNAL OF VISION. - ISSN 1534-7362. - ELETTRONICO. - 3:9(2003), pp. 267-267. [10.1167/3.9.267]
One channel per object?
Martelli, Marialuisa
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2003
Abstract
We grew up thinking that all our channels are always available, waiting to be used, like the strings in a piano. Majaj et al. (2002 & this VSS) show that observers identifying letters or reading use only one spatial frequency channel, determined by the stroke frequency of the letters. We show that this is also true for faces and line drawings of common objects. There are indications that our visual system assigns an independent neural assembly to each perceived object/event in order to estimate speed or orientation, or track position (Verghese & Stone, 1995; Berger et al., submitted; Pylyshyn, 1989). Are all these mechanisms—channels, estimators, and trackers—just different aspects of the same neural assembly, synthesized, bottom-up, by the visual system, to represent each perceived object/event?I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
