Scaling of Perceptual Errors Can Predict the Shape of Neural Tuning Curves

Weber’s law, first characterized in the 19th century, states that errors estimating the magnitude of perceptual stimuli scale linearly with stimulus intensity. This linear relationship is found in most sensory modalities, generalizes to temporal interval estimation, and even applies to some abstract...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Shouval, Harel Z., Agarwal, Animesh, Gavornik, Jeffrey
Other Authors: Picower Institute for Learning and Memory
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: American Physical Society 2013
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/79587
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8420-8973