Abstract:
:Thresholds were measured for discriminating changes in the slopes of the amplitude spectra of stimuli derived from photographs of natural scenes and from random-luminance patterns. The variety and magnitudes of the thresholds could be explained by a model based on the discrimination of the changes in band-limited local contrast. Different spatial scales of local contrast (or different spatial-frequency bands of about 1 octave) were implicated for different reference spectral slopes; the model implicated a lower frequency-band for stimuli with shallower amplitude spectra. The implications of the model were tested experimentally by using stimuli in which the spectra were changed within restricted spatial-frequency bands. When the amplitude spectra of the test and reference stimuli differed only within the implicated frequency bands, thresholds were affected little. However, when the test and reference spectra differed at all frequencies except those in the implicated bands, thresholds were elevated markedly. The forms of the psychometric functions for the discrimination task were entirely compatible with the hypothesis that the task relies upon the ability to discriminate changes of contrast. The Weibull functions fitted to the data had slope parameters (beta) in the range 1 to 3, compatible with discrimination of low (but suprathreshold) contrasts.
journal_name
Perceptionjournal_title
Perceptionauthors
Tolhurst DJ,Tadmor Ydoi
10.1068/p261011subject
Has Abstractpub_date
1997-01-01 00:00:00pages
1011-25issue
8eissn
0301-0066issn
1468-4233journal_volume
26pub_type
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