Discrimination contours for the perception of head-centered velocity

Champion, Rebecca Anne and Freeman, Tom C. A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5989-9183 2010. Discrimination contours for the perception of head-centered velocity. Journal of Vision 10 (6) , 14. 10.1167/10.6.14

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Abstract

There is little direct psychophysical evidence that the visual system contains mechanisms tuned to head-centered velocity when observers make a smooth pursuit eye movement. Much of the evidence is implicit, relying on measurements of bias (e.g., matching and nulling). We therefore measured discrimination contours in a space dimensioned by pursuit target motion and relative motion between target and background. Within this space, lines of constant head-centered motion are parallel to the main negative diagonal, so judgments dominated by mechanisms that combine individual components should produce contours with a similar orientation. Conversely, contours oriented parallel to the cardinal axes of the space indicate judgments based on individual components. The results provided evidence for mechanisms tuned to head-centered velocity—discrimination ellipses were significantly oriented away from the cardinal axes, toward the main negative diagonal. However, ellipse orientation was considerably less steep than predicted by a pure combination of components. This suggests that observers used a mixture of two strategies across trials, one based on individual components and another based on their sum. We provide a model that simulates this type of behavior and is able to reproduce the ellipse orientations we found.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Psychology
Subjects:	R Medicine > R Medicine (General) R Medicine > RC Internal medicine > RC0321 Neuroscience. Biological psychiatry. Neuropsychiatry
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Detection/discrimination ; Motion—2D ; Eye movements
Publisher:	Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology
ISSN:	1534-7362
Last Modified:	18 Oct 2022 12:53
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/11521

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