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Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Orientation discrimination across the visual field: matching perceived contrast near threshold.
Vision Research 2004 October
Performance can often be made equal across the visual field by scaling peripherally presented stimuli according to F=1+E/E2 where E2 is the eccentricity at which stimulus size must double to maintain foveal performance levels. Previous studies suggest that E2 for orientation discrimination is in the range of 1.5 degrees -2 degrees when stimuli are presented at contrasts well above detection threshold. Recent psychophysical and physiological evidence suggests spatial reorganization of receptive fields at near-threshold contrasts. Such contrast-dependent changes in receptive field structure might alter the amount of size scaling necessary to equate task performance across the visual field. To examine this question we measured orientation discrimination thresholds for a range of stimulus sizes and eccentricities (0 degrees -15 degrees ). We used the same procedure previously employed except that stimuli were presented at near-threshold contrasts. We controlled for the effects of perceptual contrast on thresholds through a matching procedure. A standard line of 3 degrees in length presented at fixation was set to 2 just noticeable differences above detection threshold. The perceived contrast of all other stimuli was adjusted by the subject to match this one. Orientation discrimination thresholds were then obtained at these matching contrasts for all stimulus sizes and eccentricities. E2 values of 3.42 degrees and 3.50 degrees were recovered for two subjects; these values were about a factor of two larger than E2 values previously found for this task when stimuli were presented at higher physical contrasts.
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