Spatial frequency discrimination : visual long-term memory or criterion setting?
A long-term sensory memory is believed to account for spatial frequency discrimination when reference and test stimuli are separated by long intervals. We test an alternative proposal: that discrimination is determined by the range of test stimuli, through their entrainment of criterion-setting proc...
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description | A long-term sensory memory is believed to account for spatial frequency discrimination when reference and test stimuli are separated by long intervals. We test an alternative proposal: that discrimination is determined by the range of test stimuli, through their entrainment of criterion-setting processes. Experiments 1 and 2 show that the 50% point of the psychometric function is largely determined by the midpoint of the stimulus range, not by the reference stimulus. Experiment 3 shows that discrimination of spatial frequencies is similarly affected by orthogonal contextual stimuli and parallel contextual stimuli and that these effects can be explained by criterion-setting processes. These findings support the hypothesis that discrimination over long intervals is explained by the operation of criterion-setting processes rather than by long-term sensory retention of a neural representation of the stimulus. |
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spelling | oxford-uuid:9435daa7-2c8f-44f6-8c5d-69d28653c78a2022-03-26T23:37:47ZSpatial frequency discrimination : visual long-term memory or criterion setting?Journal articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_dcae04bcuuid:9435daa7-2c8f-44f6-8c5d-69d28653c78aMemoryPerceptionEnglishOxford University Research Archive - ValetElsevier1998Lages, MTreisman, MA long-term sensory memory is believed to account for spatial frequency discrimination when reference and test stimuli are separated by long intervals. We test an alternative proposal: that discrimination is determined by the range of test stimuli, through their entrainment of criterion-setting processes. Experiments 1 and 2 show that the 50% point of the psychometric function is largely determined by the midpoint of the stimulus range, not by the reference stimulus. Experiment 3 shows that discrimination of spatial frequencies is similarly affected by orthogonal contextual stimuli and parallel contextual stimuli and that these effects can be explained by criterion-setting processes. These findings support the hypothesis that discrimination over long intervals is explained by the operation of criterion-setting processes rather than by long-term sensory retention of a neural representation of the stimulus. |
spellingShingle | Memory Perception Lages, M Treisman, M Spatial frequency discrimination : visual long-term memory or criterion setting? |
title | Spatial frequency discrimination : visual long-term memory or criterion setting? |
title_full | Spatial frequency discrimination : visual long-term memory or criterion setting? |
title_fullStr | Spatial frequency discrimination : visual long-term memory or criterion setting? |
title_full_unstemmed | Spatial frequency discrimination : visual long-term memory or criterion setting? |
title_short | Spatial frequency discrimination : visual long-term memory or criterion setting? |
title_sort | spatial frequency discrimination visual long term memory or criterion setting |
topic | Memory Perception |
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