Abstract
To address the question of whether temporal-frequency information in the fovea and the periphery is processed in fundamentally different ways we measured temporal-frequency-discrimination thresholds for spatiotempo- rally narrow-band stimuli presented at suprathreshold contrast. Temporal-frequency-discrimination thresh-olds are similar (within a factor of 2) at the fovea and at 30° in the periphery. We use a line-element approach and three spatiotemporally separable temporal mechanisms to model foveal and peripheral data with the same degree of fidelity. These findings suggest that not only are the front-end temporal mechanisms in the fovea and periphery likely to be similar but also the way in which their outputs are combined at more central sites is the same.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 1199-1212 |
| Number of pages | 14 |
| Journal | Journal of the Optical Society of America A: Optics and Image Science, and Vision |
| Volume | 11 |
| Issue number | 4 |
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| Publication status | Published - 1 Apr 1994 |
| Externally published | Yes |