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Visual form created solely from temporal structure.
MedLine Citation:
PMID:  10325226     Owner:  NLM     Status:  MEDLINE    
Abstract/OtherAbstract:
In several experiments, it was found that global perception of spatial form can arise exclusively from unpredictable but synchronized changes among local features. Within an array of nonoverlapping apertures, contours move in one of two directions, with direction reversing randomly over time. When contours within a region of the array reverse directions in synchrony, they stand out conspicuously from the rest of the array where direction reversals are unsynchronized. Clarity of spatial structure from synchronized change depends on the rate of motion reversal and on the proportion of elements reversing direction in synchrony. Evidently, human vision is sensitive to the rich temporal structure in these stochastic events.
Authors:
S H Lee; R Blake
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Publication Detail:
Type:  Journal Article; Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.    
Journal Detail:
Title:  Science (New York, N.Y.)     Volume:  284     ISSN:  0036-8075     ISO Abbreviation:  Science     Publication Date:  1999 May 
Date Detail:
Created Date:  1999-06-08     Completed Date:  1999-06-08     Revised Date:  2007-11-14    
Medline Journal Info:
Nlm Unique ID:  0404511     Medline TA:  Science     Country:  UNITED STATES    
Other Details:
Languages:  eng     Pagination:  1165-8     Citation Subset:  IM; S    
Affiliation:
Vanderbilt Vision Research Center, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN 37240, USA.
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MeSH Terms
Descriptor/Qualifier:
Brain / physiology*
Contrast Sensitivity
Cues
Form Perception / physiology*
Humans
Motion Perception / physiology*
Neurons / physiology
Stochastic Processes
Time Factors
Grant Support
ID/Acronym/Agency:
EY01826/EY/NEI NIH HHS; EY07760/EY/NEI NIH HHS
Comments/Corrections
Comment In:
Science. 1999 May 14;284(5417):1098-9   [PMID:  10366337 ]
Science. 1999 Dec 17;286(5448):2231

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