Experimental and theoretical results for some models of random-dot-pattern discrimination |
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Authors: | Wolfgang Schwarz |
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Institution: | (1) Psychologisches Institut, Freie Universität, Habelschwerdter Allee 45, W-1000 Berlin 33, Germany |
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Abstract: | Summary The popular, but low-power, two-stimulus signal-detection paradigms are extended to generate response-criterion-dependent psychometric functions. Maximumlikelihood estimation within a sufficiently powerful experimental design is described, and theoretical conditions for the resulting psychometric functions to be monotonically increasing are presented. These results are applied to an experiment on the detection of spatial-density differences in briefly presented random-dot patterns. The results confirm, extend, and complement current notions put forth by H. B. Barlow and his co-workers on mechanisms of internal spatial-density representation and the efficiency of intermediate levels of visual processing. |
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