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Title: | Masking of figure-ground and features by surround inhibition: A spiking model |
Author: | Supèr, Hendrik Anne Romeo Val, August |
Keywords: | Còrtex visual Neurones Visió Visual cortex Neurons Visión |
Issue Date: | 2011 |
Publisher: | Public Library of Science (PLoS) |
Abstract: | A visual stimulus can be made invisible, i.e. masked, by the presentation of a second stimulus. In the sensory cortex, neural responses to a masked stimulus are suppressed, yet how this suppression comes about is still debated. Inhibitory models explain masking by asserting that the mask exerts an inhibitory influence on the responses of a neuron evoked by the target. However, other models argue that the masking interferes with recurrent or reentrant processing. Using computer modeling, we show that surround inhibition evoked by ON and OFF responses to the mask suppresses the responses to a briefly presented stimulus in forward and backward masking paradigms. Our model results resemble several previously described psychophysical and neurophysiological findings in perceptual masking experiments and are in line with earlier theoretical descriptions of masking. We suggest that precise spatiotemporal influence of surround inhibition is relevant for visual detection. |
Note: | Reproducció del document publicat a: http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0031773 |
It is part of: | PLoS One, 2011, vol. 7, num. 2, p. e31773 |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/2445/69712 |
Related resource: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0031773 |
ISSN: | 1932-6203 |
Appears in Collections: | Articles publicats en revistes (Cognició, Desenvolupament i Psicologia de l'Educació) |
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