Review: Textures as Probes of Visual Processing
Textures as probes of visual processing
Jonathan D. Victor, Mary M. Conte and Charles F. Chubb
Annual Review of Vision Science 3, 275-296 (2017)
Abstract
Visual textures are a class of stimuli with properties that make them well
suited for addressing general questions about visual function at the levels of
behavior and neural mechanism. They have structure across multiple spatial
scales, they put the focus on the inferential nature of visual processing, and
they help bridge the gap between stimuli that are analytically convenient and
the complex, naturalistic stimuli that have the greatest biological relevance.
Key questions that are well suited for analysis via visual textures include
the nature and structure of perceptual spaces, modulation of early visual
processing by task, and the transformation of sensory stimuli into patterns
of population activity that are relevant to perception.
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