release from cross-orientation suppression facilitates 3d shape perception释放cross-orientation抑制促进三维形状知觉.pdfVIP

Release from Cross-Orientation Suppression Facilitates 3D Shape Perception 1 2 Andrea Li *, Qasim Zaidi 1 Department of Psychology, Queens College, City University of New York, Flushing, New York, United States of America, 2 Graduate Program in Vision Science, State University of New York College of Optometry, New York, New York, United States of America Abstract Cross-orientation suppression (COS) in striate cortex has been implicated in the efficient encoding of visual stimuli. We show that release from COS facilitates the decoding of 3-D shape. In planar surfaces overlaid with textures, slanting the surface can increase the visibility of the component parallel to the slant. Since this component provides the orientation flows that signify 3-D shape, the enhancement of visibility facilitates 3-D slant perception. Contrast thresholds reveal that this enhancement results from a decrease in COS when 3-D slant creates a frequency mismatch between texture components. We show that coupling compressive nonlinearities in LGN neurons with expansive nonlinearities in cortical neurons can model the frequency-specific component of suppression. Citation: Li A, Zaidi Q (2009) Release from Cross-Orientation Suppression Facilitates 3D Shape Perception. PLoS ONE 4(12): e8333. doi:10.1371/ journal.pone.0008333 Editor: David Whitney, University of California Davis, United States of America Received June 12, 2009; Accepted November 13, 2009; Published December 16, 2009 Copyright: 2009 Li, Zaidi. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Funding: The work was funded in part by PSC-CUNY Grants 69450-00 38 and 61681-00 39 to A.