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Limited-capacity mechanisms of visual discrimination
Greenlee, Mark W.
and Magnussen, Svein
(1998)
Limited-capacity mechanisms of visual discrimination.
Vision Research 38 (3), pp. 375-385.
Date of publication of this fulltext: 16 Jan 2020 13:08
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DOI to cite this document: 10.5283/epub.41268
Abstract
Discrimination thresholds of spatial frequency and choice reaction times (RT) were measured in three subjects who performed a dual-judgment delayed discrimination task. Two reference gratings were presented side-by-side with a 0-800 msec stimulus onset asynchrony (SOA), which were followed after a 5-sec retention interval by two test gratings. Subjects judged which component changed and which ...
Discrimination thresholds of spatial frequency and choice reaction times (RT) were measured in three subjects who performed a dual-judgment delayed discrimination task. Two reference gratings were presented side-by-side with a 0-800 msec stimulus onset asynchrony (SOA), which were followed after a 5-sec retention interval by two test gratings. Subjects judged which component changed and which interval had the higher spatial frequency (SF). Thresholds in the dual-judgment task were four to six times higher than thresholds in single-judgment tasks. The SOA had only a moderate effect on discrimination thresholds, whereas the difference between the spatial frequencies of the two components had a highly significant effect. The discrimination thresholds increase with increasing spatial frequency difference for the lower SF component, while they decrease for the higher SF component. An analysis of the distribution of possible error types indicated that all subjects tended to respond more frequently that the higher SF component changed. This tendency led to more errors on trials where the low SF component changed. A post- hoc analysis revealed, in two of the three subjects, a significant correlation between Af/f and RT such that higher Af/f values were associated with lower RTs and vice versa.
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| Item type | Article | ||||
| Journal or Publication Title | Vision Research | ||||
| Publisher: | Elsevier | ||||
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| Volume: | 38 | ||||
| Number of Issue or Book Chapter: | 3 | ||||
| Page Range: | pp. 375-385 | ||||
| Date | 1998 | ||||
| Institutions | Human Sciences > Institut für Psychologie > Lehrstuhl für Psychologie I (Allgemeine Psychologie I und Methodenlehre) - Prof. Dr. Mark W. Greenlee | ||||
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| Keywords | Divided attention, Perceptual discrimination, Short-term memory, Spatial frequency | ||||
| Dewey Decimal Classification | 100 Philosophy & psychology > 150 Psychology 500 Science > 570 Life sciences | ||||
| Status | Published | ||||
| Refereed | Yes, this version has been refereed | ||||
| Created at the University of Regensburg | Yes | ||||
| URN of the UB Regensburg | urn:nbn:de:bvb:355-epub-412686 | ||||
| Item ID | 41268 |
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