Feil Family Brain and Mind Research Institute, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, NY 10065; email:
Department of Cognitive Sciences, School of Social Sciences, University of California, Irvine, California 92697.
Annu Rev Vis Sci. 2017 Sep 15;3:275-296. doi: 10.1146/annurev-vision-102016-061316.
Visual textures are a class of stimuli with properties that make them well suited for addressing general questions about visual function at the levels of behavior and neural mechanism. They have structure across multiple spatial scales, they put the focus on the inferential nature of visual processing, and they help bridge the gap between stimuli that are analytically convenient and the complex, naturalistic stimuli that have the greatest biological relevance. Key questions that are well suited for analysis via visual textures include the nature and structure of perceptual spaces, modulation of early visual processing by task, and the transformation of sensory stimuli into patterns of population activity that are relevant to perception.
视觉纹理是一类具有特性的刺激物,它们非常适合在行为和神经机制层面上解决有关视觉功能的一般问题。它们在多个空间尺度上具有结构,重点是视觉处理的推理性质,并且有助于弥合分析方便的刺激物与具有最大生物学相关性的复杂自然刺激物之间的差距。通过视觉纹理进行分析非常适合的关键问题包括感知空间的性质和结构、任务对早期视觉处理的调制,以及将感觉刺激转化为与感知相关的群体活动模式。