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Selective Luminance Induction on Bright and Dark Regions in Textures

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McDonald,  JS
Department Human Perception, Cognition and Action, Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Max Planck Society;
Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Max Planck Society;

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McDonald, J., & Tadmor, Y. (2004). Selective Luminance Induction on Bright and Dark Regions in Textures. Poster presented at 7th Tübingen Perception Conference (TWK 2004), Tübingen, Germany.


Cite as: https://hdl.handle.net/11858/00-001M-0000-0013-DA0B-D
Abstract
It is thought that the "ON" and "OFF" channels, used for detecting luminance increments and decrements, are perceptually inseparable when we process complex textures. Here we show
that this is not the case. Methods: a 256 grey-levels texture patch (0.5 x 0.5 deg.), with the characteristic second order statistics of natural images, was surrounded by a uniform luminance region of various sizes (up to 4.0 x 4.0 deg.). We have modulated the luminance of the
surrounding region sinusoidally in time (at 0.6Hz) either above or below the mean luminance
of the central texture. We found that this modulation induced changes in the perceived contrast
of the central patch. Subjects were asked to null this induction by adjusting the depth of modulation
of either the bright or the dark regions of the central texture. Results: when uniform
surround luminance was modulated above the mean luminance of the central patch, subjects
chose to null the perceived induction by primarily altering the modulation of the bright regions
of the texture. Conversely, when uniform surround luminance was less than the mean of the
central patch, subjects chose to null the induction by primarily altering the modulation of the
dark regions of the texture. This implies that, in contradiction to previous reports, our perception
of bright and dark regions in complex textures is mediated by perceptually segregated ONand
OFF-channels.