Interactions Elicited by the Contradiction Between Figure Direction Discrimination and Figure-Ground Segregation
Figure-ground (FG) segregation that separates an object from the rest of the image is a fundamental problem in vision science. A majority of neurons in monkey V2 showed the selectivity to border ownership (BO) that indicates which side of a contour owns the border. Although BO could be a precursor o...
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| description | Figure-ground (FG) segregation that separates an object from the rest of the image is a fundamental problem in vision science. A majority of neurons in monkey V2 showed the selectivity to border ownership (BO) that indicates which side of a contour owns the border. Although BO could be a precursor of FG segregation, the contribution of BO to FG segregation has not been clarified. Because FG segregation is the perception of the global region that belongs to an object, whereas BO determination provides the local direction of figure (DOF) along a contour, a spatial integration of BO might be expected for the generation of FG. To understand the mechanisms underlying the perception of figural regions, we investigated the interaction between the local BO determination and the global FG segregation through the quantitative analysis of the visual perception and the spatiotemporal characteristics of eye movements. We generated a set of novel stimuli in which translucency induces local DOF along the contour and global FG independently so that DOF and FG could be either consistent or contradictory. The perceptual responses showed better performance in DOF discrimination than FG segregation, supporting distinct mechanisms for the DOF discrimination and the FG segregation. We examined whether the contradiction between DOF and FG modulates the eye movement while participants judged DOF and FG. The duration of the first eye fixation was modulated by the contradiction during FG segregation but not DOF discrimination, suggesting a sequential processing from the BO determination to the FG segregation. These results of human perception and eye fixation provide important clues for understanding the visual processing for FG segregation. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-d56d57a3be5548799eb866eba8821f812022-12-21T18:18:53ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Psychology1664-10782018-09-01910.3389/fpsyg.2018.01681333813Interactions Elicited by the Contradiction Between Figure Direction Discrimination and Figure-Ground SegregationNobuhiko Wagatsuma0Nobuhiko Wagatsuma1Mika Urabe2Ko Sakai3Faculty of Sciences, Toho University, Funabashi, JapanDepartment of Computer Science, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, JapanDepartment of Computer Science, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, JapanDepartment of Computer Science, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, JapanFigure-ground (FG) segregation that separates an object from the rest of the image is a fundamental problem in vision science. A majority of neurons in monkey V2 showed the selectivity to border ownership (BO) that indicates which side of a contour owns the border. Although BO could be a precursor of FG segregation, the contribution of BO to FG segregation has not been clarified. Because FG segregation is the perception of the global region that belongs to an object, whereas BO determination provides the local direction of figure (DOF) along a contour, a spatial integration of BO might be expected for the generation of FG. To understand the mechanisms underlying the perception of figural regions, we investigated the interaction between the local BO determination and the global FG segregation through the quantitative analysis of the visual perception and the spatiotemporal characteristics of eye movements. We generated a set of novel stimuli in which translucency induces local DOF along the contour and global FG independently so that DOF and FG could be either consistent or contradictory. The perceptual responses showed better performance in DOF discrimination than FG segregation, supporting distinct mechanisms for the DOF discrimination and the FG segregation. We examined whether the contradiction between DOF and FG modulates the eye movement while participants judged DOF and FG. The duration of the first eye fixation was modulated by the contradiction during FG segregation but not DOF discrimination, suggesting a sequential processing from the BO determination to the FG segregation. These results of human perception and eye fixation provide important clues for understanding the visual processing for FG segregation.https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fpsyg.2018.01681/fullfigure-ground segregationborder ownershippsychophysical experimenteye movementperceptual organization |
| spellingShingle | Nobuhiko Wagatsuma Nobuhiko Wagatsuma Mika Urabe Ko Sakai Interactions Elicited by the Contradiction Between Figure Direction Discrimination and Figure-Ground Segregation Frontiers in Psychology figure-ground segregation border ownership psychophysical experiment eye movement perceptual organization |
| title | Interactions Elicited by the Contradiction Between Figure Direction Discrimination and Figure-Ground Segregation |
| title_full | Interactions Elicited by the Contradiction Between Figure Direction Discrimination and Figure-Ground Segregation |
| title_fullStr | Interactions Elicited by the Contradiction Between Figure Direction Discrimination and Figure-Ground Segregation |
| title_full_unstemmed | Interactions Elicited by the Contradiction Between Figure Direction Discrimination and Figure-Ground Segregation |
| title_short | Interactions Elicited by the Contradiction Between Figure Direction Discrimination and Figure-Ground Segregation |
| title_sort | interactions elicited by the contradiction between figure direction discrimination and figure ground segregation |
| topic | figure-ground segregation border ownership psychophysical experiment eye movement perceptual organization |
| url | https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fpsyg.2018.01681/full |
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