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The channel for detecting contrast modulation also responds to density modulation (or vice versa)
Michael J Morgan1, Donald I A MacLeod2, Joshua A Solomon1
1Division of Optometry, School of Health Sciences, City, University of London, UK.
Abstract:
In textures composed of black and white dots, we modulated dot density and/or dot contrast in one direction of visual space. Just as Mulligan and MacLeod (Vision Research 28 (1988) 503-519) found a strong reciprocity between density and luminance for dots viewed against a darker background, we found a strong reciprocity between density and contrast: detection thresholds for in-phase modulations of density and contrast were 30% - 55% lower than detection thresholds for density and contrast modulations that were 180° out of phase. These findings support the existence of at least one psychophysical channel that is excited by both density modulations and contrast modulations. A good, quantitative fit to our data can be obtained with a two-channel model.
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