Retinal Encoding of Ultrabrief Shape Recognition Cues
Ernest Greene · 2007
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Description
Ernest Greene studied how the retina handles very brief shape cues, in a solo PLOS ONE article from 2007. Shape can be probed by flashing dots along an outline one after another. Gaps of less than a thousandth of a second between dots can already hurt recognition, which raises a puzzle about where the loss happens.
Greene asks whether the eye itself keeps the signal in order, or whether later brain stages do that work. The question goes to how vision turns a stream of flashes into a steady form. It also matters for displays and tests that rely on rapid images. The study keeps the focus on the first stage of seeing.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Ernest Greene |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2007 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 47 KB |
| LICENSE | Creative Commons Attribution License |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | PLOS ONE |
Source: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0000871