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Date: June 27, Jeffrey M. McKenzie, Donald I.

Siegel, Laura K. Lautz, Martin H. Otz, James Hassett, Ines Otz.

Date: January 5, Date: April 18, Carlos E. Restrepo, Jeffrey S. Simonoff, George D.

Thurston, Rae Zimmerman. Ringach described a related but dissimilar technique.

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By adding together pixel-by-pixel all of the masks eliciting correct responses and subtracting off all of the masks eliciting incorrect responses, Ahumada produced a picture of the template for the mechanism subserving vernier discrimination. On each trial i of this procedure, observers must select the one of two displays of visual noise that also contains a target pattern. In Equation 1 , the target t and both samples of noise n i 1 and n i 2 are represented by vectors. For simplicity, assume that both target and noise are gray-scale as opposed to color images.

In that case, each entry in each vector describes the intensity of a particular pixel. In Equation 2 , the vector s i represents the display on trial i , which may or may not contain the target.

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Each of these equations makes a prediction that has been confirmed by numerous conventional experiments Pelli, : threshold contrast increases linearly with the contrast of the noise mask. Abbey et al. These are examples of what I call the standard analytical technique for psychophysical reverse correlation.

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Equation 2 suggests an alternative analysis based upon multiple regression. Recognizing the similarity between Equations 2 and 3 , Ahumada and Lovell presented auditory noise and asked observers to rate how confident they were that a target tone was present. If these ratings indeed reflect multiple internal criteria, then multiple regression is the most efficient way to reveal the template for the tone-detection mechanism.

Several psychophysical reverse-correlation studies report systematic differences between the template an ideal mechanism would use for target detection in white noise, this is simply the target itself and the templates used by visual mechanisms. However, the significance of these differences is rarely quantified. In several of the experiments reported below, I use a maximum-likelihood analysis MLA both to derive template estimates and to quantify their difference from the ideal.

For comparison, I also use the standard analytical technique. The first step of the MLA is to derive the formula for response likelihood. The assumption of Gaussian internal noise, when coupled with the response rule in Equation 1 , implies the following formula for the likelihood of a correct response on any trial i :.

For clarity, any parameters appearing in the likelihood formula will be called response parameters. For any given template w , one needs only to assign values to the response parameters in order to calculate the joint likelihood of all responses collected. The second step of the MLA is to find those values for the response parameters that maximize the joint likelihood of all responses collected by each observer, given no difference between the ideal and visual templates, i.

Templates themselves are specified by another set of parameters the template parameters.

With no constraints, the number of parameters required to completely specify a template will be equal to the number of elements in the vector that represents it. In the MLAs described below, I make certain assumptions about the form of visual templates, which reduce the number of parameters required for their specification. If, for example, the ideal template is a Gabor pattern, then it is not unreasonable to assume that the visual template is also a Gabor pattern, which can be fully specified by 6 parameters: frequency, orientation, phase, spread, horizontal position, and vertical position.

In step three of the MLA, the maximum joint likelihood of all responses is again determined, this time with some subset of the template parameters allowed to vary from their ideal values along with the response parameters. The significance of the difference between ideal and visual templates can therefore be quantified.

Threshold contrast does not increase linearly with the contrast of masks that are not composed of visual noise Legge, , and SDT must be modified accordingly. A simple modification that will allow SDT to account for this facilitation is a sensory threshold.

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Not to be confused with the performance thresholds discussed above, a sensory threshold serves to attenuate the output of a detection mechanism when its template is poorly matched by the visual stimulus. With this modification, the rule for a correct response in the 2AFC procedure becomes. Consider a 2AFC noise-masking experiment in which a different sample of noise is used on every trial, but within each trial, both displays contain the same sample. On the other hand, if the sensory-threshold theory Equation 6 were correct, then in a twinned-noise experiment those samples that are least likely to cause errors are those that are most similar to the target.

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Thus, t t e should be less than zero. Simulations of these models are shown in conjunction with Experiment 3, which corroborates the prediction of sensory-threshold theory. All of the analyses described above assume that the observer will use the same mechanism with template w on every trial of a particular experiment. For many experiments, this assumption may not be correct.

Indeed, one popular model of detection posits that some responses are based on the outputs of mechanisms that are completely insensitive to the target Pelli, Hits i. Stimuli were displayed on an Apple Multiple Scan monitor using only the green gun. A video signal with 12 bit precision was attained using an ISR Video Attenuator, which conforms to the specifications described by Pelli and Zhang Display resolution was A frame rate of Hz allowed target and mask to be presented on alternate frames with no visible flicker.

In some experiments, images were magnified by pixel replication to reduce limitations imposed by monitor bandwidth. All of the experiments were performed between late and early Every few months the monitor was re-calibrated and the background luminance was set to one half of the maximum luminance. I also frequently cite the correlation r x,y between two vectors x and y usually representing a target and an estimated template :.

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Previous research Abbey et al. Experiment 1 replicates the conditions of the previous study and employs MLA to evaluate differences between the templates used by various observers including the ideal observer. The viewing distance was such that each magnified pixel subtended 37 s of visual angle.

Each trial contained two 0. The luminance of each pixel in each sample was independently drawn from a Gaussian distribution, with a standard deviation equal to one quarter of the available range of luminances. The mean of this distribution was the background luminance. This target was added, pixel-by-pixel, to one of the displays in each trial.

The accuracy of each response was indicated with a tone. Viewing was binocular and there were four observers: J. Each observer completed 2, trials. The first were discarded and templates were estimated using the standard technique from the remainder. The green curves in Figure 1a—1d show how template intensities vary with distance from the center of the display. They have been scaled to have unit height. They have been scaled to have minimal distance from the green curves.

Consistent with the previous report Abbey et al. To determine whether these templates are significantly narrower than the target, two template models were compared.

In the more general model, the template was allowed to be any bright Gaussian blob. In the less general model, the template was forced to have the same space constant as the Gaussian target. MLA revealed that the responses from three of the four observers A.

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