Trial reportProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2013
Sensory adaptation as optimal resource allocation.
Trial report in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. An erratum has been issued. Cited by 30 papers.
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30 citing papers in PubMed.
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- Attractive and repulsive effects of sensory history concurrently shape visual perception.BMC biology · 2022Article
- Attractive serial dependence in heading perception from optic flow occurs at the perceptual and postperceptual stages.Journal of vision · 2022Article
- The nature of magnitude integration: Contextual interference versus active magnitude binding.Journal of vision · 2022Article
- Measuring the Contrast Sensitivity Function in Non-Neovascular and Neovascular Age-Related Macular Degeneration: The Quantitative Contrast Sensitivity Function Test.Journal of clinical medicine · 2021Review
- Sensitivity and Stability of Functional Vision Tests in Detecting Subtle Changes Under Multiple Simulated Conditions.Translational vision science & technology · 2021Article
- Echolocating bats rely on an innate speed-of-sound reference.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2021Article
- Adaptation to one perceived motion direction can generate multiple velocity aftereffects.Journal of vision · 2021Article
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- Serial dependence in position occurs at the time of perception.Psychonomic bulletin & review · 2018Article
- Measuring the Contrast Sensitivity Function Using the qCSF Method With 10 Digits.Translational vision science & technology · 2018Article
- Context Effects in the Judgment of Visual Relative-Frequency: Trial-by-Trial Adaptation and Non-linear Sequential Effect.Frontiers in psychology · 2018Article
- Adaptive Optimization of Visual Sensitivity.Journal of the Indian Institute of Science · 2017Article
- Paradoxical perception of object identity in visual motion.Vision research · 2017Article
- Different coding strategies for the perception of stable and changeable facial attributes.Scientific reports · 2016Article
- Adaptation to numerosity requires only brief exposures, and is determined by number of events, not exposure duration.Journal of vision · 2016Article
- Effects of Signal-to-Noise Ratio on Auditory Cortical Frequency Processing.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2016Article
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- Erratum issued
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3 authors.
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Abstract
Visual adaptation is expected to improve visual performance in the new environment. This expectation has been contradicted by evidence that adaptation sometimes decreases sensitivity for the adapting stimuli, and sometimes it changes sensitivity for stimuli very different from the adapting ones. We hypothesize that this pattern of results can be explained by a process that optimizes sensitivity for many stimuli, rather than changing sensitivity only for those stimuli whose statistics have changed. To test this hypothesis, we measured visual sensitivity across a broad range of spatiotemporal modulations of luminance, while varying the distribution of stimulus speeds. The manipulation of stimulus statistics caused a large-scale reorganization of visual sensitivity, forming the orderly pattern of sensitivity gains and losses. This pattern is predicted by a theory of distribution of receptive field characteristics in the visual system.
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