Mach Band Type Lateral Inhibition in Different Sense Organs
- 1 January 1967
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Rockefeller University Press in The Journal of general physiology
- Vol. 50 (3), 519-532
- https://doi.org/10.1085/jgp.50.3.519
Abstract
Experiments were done on the skin with shearing forces, vibrations, and heat stimuli and on the tongue with taste stimuli to show that the well known Mach bands are not exclusively a visual phenomenon. On the contrary, it is not difficult to produce areas of a decreased sensation magnitude corresponding to the dark Mach bands in vision. It is shown on a geometrical model of nervous interaction that the appearance of Mach bands for certain patterns of stimulus distribution is correlated with nervous inhibition surrounding the area of sensation. This corroborates the earlier finding that surrounding every area transmitting sensation there is an area simultaneously transmitting inhibition.This publication has 4 references indexed in Scilit:
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