Skip to main content
SpringerLink
Log in

Spatial Vision and Pattern Perception

  • Reference work entry
  • First Online:
Handbook of Visual Display Technology

  • 488 Accesses

Abstract

This chapter deals with the visual system’s sensitivity to contrast and the various ways by which it is affected. Specifically, contrast detection and discrimination thresholds and superimposed and lateral masking effects will be discussed. Effects of pattern adaptation and the consequent modification of the contrast sensitivity function will also be discussed.

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this chapter

Log in via an institution
Chapter
USD 29.95
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Available as PDF
  • Read on any device
  • Instant download
  • Own it forever
eBook
USD 1,399.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Available as EPUB and PDF
  • Read on any device
  • Instant download
  • Own it forever
Hardcover Book
USD 1,999.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Durable hardcover edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info

Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout

Purchases are for personal use only

Institutional subscriptions

Abbreviations

cpd:

Cycles per degree

CSF:

Contrast sensitivity function

FACT:

Functional acuity contrast test

MTF:

Modulation transfer function

Further Reading

  • Adini Y, Sagi D, Tsodykes M (1997) Excitatory – inhibitory networks in the visual cortex: psychophysical evidence. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 94:10426–10431

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Atchison DA, Woods RL, Bradley A (1998) Predicting the effects of optical defocus on human contrast sensitivity. J Opt Soc Am A 15:2536–2544

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Barlow HB (1958) Temporal and spatial summation in human vision at different background intensities. J Physiol 141:337–350

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Blakemore C, Campbell FW (1969) On the existence of neurones in the human visual system selectively sensitive to the orientation and size of retinal images. J Physiol 203:237–260

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Bour LJ, Apkarian P (1996) Selective broad-band spatial frequency loss in contrast sensitivity functions. Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci 37:2475–2482

    Google Scholar 

  • Campbell FW, Green DG (1965) Optical and retinal factors affecting visual resolution. J Physiol 181:576–593

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Crassini B, Brown B, Bowman K (1988) Age-related changes in contrast sensitivity in central and peripheral retina. Perception 17:315–332

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Davila KD, Geisler WS (1991) The relative contributions of pre-neural and neural factors to areal summation in the fovea. Vision Res 31:1369–1380

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • De Valois R, De Valois K (1988) Spatial vision. Oxford Science Publication, New York

    MATH  Google Scholar 

  • De Valois RL, Morgan H, Snodderly DM (1974) Psychophysical studies of monkey vision-III. Spatial luminance contrast sensitivity tests of macaque and human observers. Vision Res 14:75–81

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Elliott DB, Sanderson K, Conkey A (1990) The reliability of the Pelli-Robson contrast sensitivity chart. Ophthalmic Physiol Opt 10:21–24

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Foley JM (1994) Human luminance pattern-vision mechanisms: masking experiments require a new model. J Opt Soc Am A 11:1710–1719

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Foley JM, Chen C-C (1999) Pattern detection in the presence of maskers that differ in spatial phase and temporal offset: threshold measurements and a model. Vision Res 39:3855–3872

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Graham N (1992) Visual pattern analyzers. Oxford University Press, New York

    Google Scholar 

  • Hess R, Woo G (1978) Vision through cataracts. Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci 17:428–435

    Google Scholar 

  • Pelli DG, Zhang L (1991) Accurate control of contrast on microcomputer displays. Vision Res 31:1337–1350

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Pelli DG, Robson JG, Wilkins AJ (1988) The design of a new letter chart for measuring contrast sensitivity. Clin Vision Sci 2:187–199

    Google Scholar 

  • Schefrin BE, Bieber ML, McLean R, Werner JS (1998) The area of complete scotopic spatial summation enlarges with age. J Opt Soc Am A 15:340–348

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Shapley R, Man-Kit Lam D (1992) Contrast sensitivity. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA

    Google Scholar 

  • Strang NC, Atchison DA, Woods RL (1999) Effects of defocus and pupil size on human contrast sensitivity. Ophthalmic Physiol Opt 19:415–426

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Van Nes FL, Bouman M (1967) Spatial modulation transfer in the human eye. J Opt Soc Am 57:401–406

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Vassilev A, Ivanov I, Zlatkova MB, Anderson RS (2005) Human S-cone vision: relationship between perceptive field and ganglion cell dendritic field. J Vis 5:823–833

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Westheimer G (1965) Spatial interaction in the human retina. J Physiol 181:881–894

    Article  Google Scholar 

Download references

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

  1. Hyderabad Eye Research Foundation, L. V. Prasad Eye Institute, Hyderabad, India

    L. Srinivasa Varadharajan

Authors
  1. L. Srinivasa Varadharajan
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

Corresponding author

Correspondence to L. Srinivasa Varadharajan .

Editor information

Editors and Affiliations

  1. Display Technology Center, Panel Integration Division I, Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI), Chutung, Hsinchu, Taiwan

    Janglin Chen

  2. Sheffield Hallam University, Sheffield, United Kingdom

    Wayne Cranton

  3. Veritas et Visus, Temple, Texas, USA

    Mark Fihn

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

Copyright information

© 2016 Springer International Publishing Switzerland

About this entry

Cite this entry

Varadharajan, L.S. (2016). Spatial Vision and Pattern Perception. In: Chen, J., Cranton, W., Fihn, M. (eds) Handbook of Visual Display Technology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-14346-0_8

Download citation

Publish with us

Policies and ethics

Search

Navigation