Size-Detecting Mechanisms in Human Vision
- 6 December 1968
- journal article
- other
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 162 (3858), 1146-1148
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.162.3858.1146.b
Abstract
Inspecting a pattern of alternating dark and light bars makes it difficult to see a similar pattern presented afterward. This phenomenon can be used to isolate mechanisms responsive to bars of a given width. Our results suggest that the human visual system contains several different classes of size detectors, each maximally sensitive to visual targets with sizes in a particular range.Keywords
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