Speed of visual processing increases with eccentricity

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作者
Carrasco, M
McElree, B
Denisova, K
Giordano, AM
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[1] NYU, Dept Psychol, New York, NY 10003 USA
[2] NYU, Dept Neural Sci, New York, NY 10003 USA
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10.1038/nn1079
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Q189 [神经科学];
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071006 ;
摘要
The visual system has a duplex design to meet conflicting environmental demands: the fovea has the resolution required to process fine spatial information, but the periphery is more sensitive to temporal properties(1-3). To investigate whether the periphery's sensitivity is partly due to the speed with which information is processed, we measured the full timecourse of visual information processing by deriving joint measures of discriminability and speed, and found that speed of information processing varies with eccentricity: processing was faster when same-size stimuli appeared at 9degrees than 4degrees eccentricity, and this difference was attenuated when the 9degrees stimuli were magnified to equate cortical representation size. At the same eccentricity, larger stimuli are processed more slowly. These temporal differences are greater than expected from neurophysiological constraints(4-6).
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