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- Title
Masking within and across visual dimensions: Psychophysical evidence for perceptual segregation of color and motion.
- Authors
CHEADLE, SAMUEL W.; ZEKI, SEMIR
- Abstract
Visual masking can result from the interference of perceptual signals. According to the principle of functional specialization, interference should be greatest when signal and mask belong to the same visual attribute (e.g., color or motion) and least when they belong to different ones. We provide evidence to support this view and show that the time course of masking is visual attribute specific. First, we show that a color target is masked most effectively by color (homogeneous target-mask pair) and least effectively by motion (heterogeneous pair) and vice versa for a motion target. Second, we show that the time at which the mask is most effective depends strongly on the target-mask pairing. Heterogeneous masking is strongest when the mask is presented before the target (forward masking) but this is not true of homogeneous masking. This finding supports a delayed cross-feature interaction due to segregated processing sites. Third, lengthening the stimulus onset asynchrony between target and mask leads to a faster improvement in color than in motion detectability, lending support for a faster color processing system and consistent with reports of perceptual asynchrony in vision. In summary, we present three lines of psychophysical evidence, all of which support a segregated neural coding scheme for color and motion in the human brain.
- Subjects
PSYCHOPHYSICS; COLOR vision; MOTION perception (Vision); VISUAL masking; BRAIN; MASKING (Psychology); VISION
- Publication
Visual Neuroscience, 2011, Vol 28, Issue 5, p445
- ISSN
0952-5238
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1017/S0952523811000228