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The time course of visual processing: Backward masking and natural scene categorisation
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Human observers are very good at deciding whether briefly flashed novel images contain an animal and previous work has shown that the underlying visual processing can be performed in under 150 ms. Here we used a masking paradigm to determine how information accumulates over time during such high-level categorisation tasks. As the delay between test image and mask is increased, both behavioural accuracy and differential ERP amplitude rapidly increase to reach asymptotic levels around 40-60 ms. Such results imply that processing at each stage in the visual system is remarkably rapid, with information accumulating almost continuously following the onset of activation.
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“Thus, a natural paradigm for comparing the performance of human observers in an object-recognition task to that of a feedforward model of visual processing is ultra rapid categorization, a task for which back projections are likely to be inactive (30, 31).”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Bacon-Macé, N., Macé, M. J.-M., Fabre-Thorpe, M., & Thorpe, S. J.
- Affiliations
- Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR)
- Corresponding author
- Bacon-Macé, Nadège
- Venue
- Vision Research
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2005-05
- Volume
- 45
- Issue
- 11
- Pages
- 1459-1469
- ISSN
- 0042-6989 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2135566527
- Cited by
- 236
- References
- 54
- Citations by year
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- FWCI
- 6.59
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
- doi.org
- Licence
- Locations
- Vision Research (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- HAL (submittedVersion)
- Funders
- Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Visual perception and processing mechanisms
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Face Recognition and Perception
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition › Visual Attention and Saliency Detection
- Keywords
- backward masking, event-related potentials, information accumulation, rapid visual processing, animal recognition
- MeSH terms
- Adult, Discrimination, Psychological, Electroencephalography, Female, Humans, Male, Middle Aged, Perceptual Masking, Psychophysics, Reaction Time, Sensitivity and Specificity, Visual Pathways, Visual Perception, Chi-Square Distribution, Case-Control Studies, Statistics, Nonparametric
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