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  • Visual Perception
  • Cognitive Psychology

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  • Understanding the neural basis of visual perception is crucial.
  • Hierarchical stimuli, composed of global shapes and local elements, are vital for studying visual processing.
  • The roles of subcortical structures in visual processing remain incompletely understood.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the involvement of subcortical structures in processing global and local visual information.
  • To determine how segregating global and local information between the eyes affects visual processing.
  • To elucidate the neural pathways underlying the global advantage and global-to-local interference.

Main Methods:

  • Utilized a stereoscope to present hierarchical visual stimuli.
  • Employed dichoptic and monocular presentation methods, varying same-eye versus different-eyes conditions.
  • Measured behavioral responses to assess global advantage and global-to-local interference.

Main Results:

  • The global advantage and global-to-local interference were observed in the same-eye presentation condition.
  • No global advantage or global-to-local interference was found when information was presented to different eyes.
  • Experiment 2 confirmed that stimulus segregation between eyes eliminated global-to-local interference.

Conclusions:

  • Processing the global aspect of hierarchical stimuli involves subcortical regions.
  • These subcortical regions are likely indexed by monocular portions of the visual system.
  • Visual information segregation between eyes disrupts global processing, highlighting the role of specific neural pathways.