Journal article
The effect of aging on the orientational selectivity of the human visual system
Abstract
Leventhal et al. (Science, 2003, 300(5620), 812-815) reported that orientation selectivity of V1 neurons was significantly reduced in older macaque monkeys, which suggests that mechanisms that encode orientation in humans may become more broadly tuned in old age. We examined this hypothesis in two experiments that used sine-wave masking and notched-noise masking to estimate the bandwidth of orientation-selective mechanisms in younger (age …
Authors
Govenlock SW; Taylor CP; Sekuler AB; Bennett PJ
Journal
Vision Research, Vol. 49, No. 1, pp. 164–172
Publisher
Elsevier
Publication Date
1 2009
DOI
10.1016/j.visres.2008.10.004
ISSN
0042-6989