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A psychophysical experiment to test the efficient stereo coding theory

Chen, D.; Zhaoping, L.; (1998) A psychophysical experiment to test the efficient stereo coding theory. In: Wong, K.-Y.M and King, I. and Yeung, D.Y., (eds.) Theoretical Aspects of Neural Computation: A Multidisciplinary Perspective. (pp. 225-235). Springer Verlag: New York, US. Green open access

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Abstract

A theory of efficient stereo coding [2] predicts that, in a natural visual environment, where the ocular correlation of the input depends on stimulus orientations, the striate cortical cells are more likely binocular when selective to horizontal rather than vertical orientations. A psychophysical experiment was designed to test this prediction. The interocular transfers of simultaneous orientation contrast at near horizontal and vertical orientations were measured. This measure was used to access the binocularity of the underlying cells. It turned out that in the natural stereovisual environment, the transfers for horizontal orientations were larger than that for vertical case. And in the unnatural stereo experimental environment, where the binocular correlation is the same for vertical and horizontal orientations, the transfer for the horizontal orientation was almost equal to that in the corresponding vertical case. These results are consistent with the theoretical prediction.

Type: Book chapter
Title: A psychophysical experiment to test the efficient stereo coding theory
ISBN-13: 9789813083707
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
Publisher version: http://www.springer.com/computer/foundations/book/...
Language: English
Additional information: The original publication is available at www.springerlink.com
UCL classification: UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Life Sciences > Gatsby Computational Neurosci Unit
URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/18217
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