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    • Visual neuroscience
    • Human psychophysics
    • Perception

    Background:

    • Surround suppression diminishes visual stimulus response due to neighboring stimuli.
    • Animal models suggest monocular and binocular mechanisms for this effect.
    • These mechanisms differ in contrast adaptation sensitivity and eye-of-origin specificity.

    Purpose of the Study:

    • Investigate the existence of distinct monocular and binocular surround suppression mechanisms in humans.
    • Differentiate these mechanisms using psychophysical methods, specifically eye-of-origin and contrast adaptation.
    • Test predictions regarding the orientation tuning of monocular versus binocular suppression.

    Main Methods:

    • Presented visual stimuli dichoptically (different eyes) and monoptically (same eye).
    • Manipulated contrast adaptation in the surrounding visual field.
    • Measured psychophysical responses to assess surround suppression effects.

    Main Results:

    • Dichoptic surround suppression was orientation-tuned.
    • Monoptic surround suppression was not orientation-tuned.
    • Contrast adaptation eliminated dichoptic suppression and reduced monoptic suppression's orientation selectivity.

    Conclusions:

    • Human vision exhibits distinct monocular and binocular components of surround suppression.
    • These findings support models involving both low-level and higher-level visual processing.
    • The study offers a method to analyze spatial context processing in human vision.