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Visualizing Visual Adaptation
Published on: April 24, 2017
Visual sensitivity to parallel configurations of contours compared with sensitivity to other configurations
Maria Dvoeglazova1, Ekaterina Koshmanova1, Tadamasa Sawada1
1School of Psychology, HSE University, Moscow, Russia.
Abstract:
People can perceive 3D information from contour drawings and some types of configurations of contours in such drawings are important for 3D perception. We know that our visual system is sensitive to these configurations. Koshmanova & Sawada (2019, Vision Research, 154, 97-104) showed that the sensitivity is higher to a parallel configuration of contours than to a perpendicular configuration of contours. In this study, two psychophysical experiments were conducted that compared the sensitivity to a parallel configuration to two different configurations. In Experiment 1, orientation thresholds were measured with parallel and converging configurations composed of three contours. In Experiment 2, orientation thresholds of configurations composed of two contours were measured with parallel, collinear, and perpendicular configurations. The results of Experiment 1 showed that the visual system is more sensitive to parallel configurations than to converging configurations. The results of Experiment 2 showed that the sensitivity to the parallel configuration is analogous to the sensitivity to the collinear configuration, and it is higher than the sensitivity to the perpendicular configuration. The role that the parallel configuration plays in the 3D perception of contour-drawings is discussed.
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