How are local orientation signals pooled?
Ensemble perception
Generalized mean
Pooling orientation
Proportion of informative elements
Representational noise
Statistical averaging
Journal
Attention, perception & psychophysics
ISSN: 1943-393X
Titre abrégé: Atten Percept Psychophys
Pays: United States
ID NLM: 101495384
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
Apr 2022
Apr 2022
Historique:
accepted:
03
02
2022
pubmed:
4
3
2022
medline:
14
4
2022
entrez:
3
3
2022
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
Visual perception is capable of pooling multiple local orientation signals into a single more accurate summary orientation. However, there is still a lack of systematic inquiry into which summary statistics are implemented in that process. Here, the task was to recognize in which direction, clockwise or counter-clockwise, the mean orientation of a set of randomly distributed Gabor patches (N = 1, 2, 4, and 8) was rotated from the implicit vertical. The mean orientation discrimination accuracy did not improve with the increase of the number N of elements in proportion to the square-root-N, as could be expected if noisy internal representations were arithmetically averaged. The Proportion of Informative Elements (PIE), defined as the percentage of elements having an orientation different from the vertical, also affected the discrimination precision, violating the arithmetic averaging rules. The decrease in the orientation discrimination precision with the increase of the PIE would suggest that the orientation pooling could be more adequately described by a quadratic or higher power mean. Thus, we parameterized the averaging process for the power parameter of the generalized mean formula. The results indicate that different pooling rules in different trials may apply, for example, the arithmetic mean in some and the maximal deviation rule in others. It is concluded that pooling of orientation information is a relatively inaccurate process for which different perceptual cues and their combination rules can be used.
Identifiants
pubmed: 35237931
doi: 10.3758/s13414-022-02456-9
pii: 10.3758/s13414-022-02456-9
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Langues
eng
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Pagination
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Organisme : Estonian Research Council
ID : PRG1151
Informations de copyright
© 2022. The Psychonomic Society, Inc.
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