Volume 8, Number 17, Abstract 13, Page 13a doi:10.1167/8.17.13 http://journalofvision.org/8/17/13/ ISSN 1534-7362
Interocular suppression selectively affects achromatic and chromatic pathways
Sang Wook Hong
Dept. Psychology, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, USA
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Randolph Blake
Dept. Psychology, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, USA
Abstract

Results from a series of psychophysical experiments show that interocular suppression produced by continuous flash suppression (CFS) differentially affects visual features of a target viewed by the other eye. When CFS stimuli are defined by luminance contrast, target color can be reliably identified but percent-correct discrimination of target orientation is near chance. When the colored target is moving, color identification deteriorates with motion speed but direction of motion discrimination improves with target speed. Color’s immunity to suppression is also weakened when interocular suppression is induced by equiluminant CFS stimuli that presumably stimulate the chromatic pathway. These results imply that the strong interocular suppression induced by CFS may differentially operate on parvo- and magno-cellular mechanisms depending on the chromatic properties of the stimuli inducing CFS.
Supported by EY13358.

History
Received October 31, 2008; published December 31, 2008
Citation
Hong, S. W., & Blake, R. (2008). Interocular suppression selectively affects achromatic and chromatic pathways [Abstract]. Journal of Vision, 8(17):13, 13a, http://journalofvision.org/8/17/13/, doi:10.1167/8.17.13.
Keywords
continuous flash suppression, color, MC-pathway, PC-pathway
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