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Discriminating mirror symmetry in foveal and extra-foveal vision
B T Barrett1, D Whitaker, P V McGraw
1Department of Optometry, University of Bradford, UK. b.t.barrett@bradford.ac.uk
Abstract:
The ability to discriminate perfect from imperfect mirror symmetry was examined at the fovea and at eccentricities out to 10 degrees in the nasal visual field. A 2-AFC method of constant stimuli was employed in which a bilaterally symmetric pattern was presented in one interval and a degraded version of this symmetric pattern in the other. The subject's task was to decide which interval contained the perfectly symmetric pattern. Pattern size was varied by changing the viewing distance. Probit analysis revealed the degree of asymmetry corresponding to 75% correct performance. Given sufficient size scaling, perfectly symmetric stimuli can be discriminated from degraded symmetric stimuli in extra-foveal vision. Spatial scaling with an E2 value similar to that for positional acuity was successful in removing the eccentricity dependence for the task.
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