How Sensitive Is the Human Visual System to the Local Statistics of Natural Images?

Holly E. Gerhard; Felix A. Wichmann; Matthias Bethge

doi:10.1371/journal.pcbi.1002873

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How Sensitive Is the Human Visual System to the Local Statistics of Natural Images?

Holly E. Gerhard ,

* E-mail: holly.gerhard@bethgelab.org

Affiliations Computational Vision and Neuroscience Group, Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Tübingen, Germany, Werner Reichardt Centre for Integrative Neuroscience, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany, Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience, Tübingen, Germany
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Felix A. Wichmann,

Affiliations Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience, Tübingen, Germany, AG Neuronale Informationsverarbeitung, Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Fakultät, Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany, Abteilung Empirische Inferenz, Max-Planck-Institut für Intelligente Systeme, Tübingen, Germany
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Matthias Bethge

Affiliations Computational Vision and Neuroscience Group, Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Tübingen, Germany, Werner Reichardt Centre for Integrative Neuroscience, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany, Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience, Tübingen, Germany, Institute of Theoretical Physics, Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany
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How Sensitive Is the Human Visual System to the Local Statistics of Natural Images?

Holly E. Gerhard,
Felix A. Wichmann,
Matthias Bethge

Published: January 24, 2013
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1002873

About the Authors

Holly E. Gerhard

* E-mail: holly.gerhard@bethgelab.org

Affiliations Computational Vision and Neuroscience Group, Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Tübingen, Germany, Werner Reichardt Centre for Integrative Neuroscience, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany, Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience, Tübingen, Germany

Felix A. Wichmann

Affiliations Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience, Tübingen, Germany, AG Neuronale Informationsverarbeitung, Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Fakultät, Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany, Abteilung Empirische Inferenz, Max-Planck-Institut für Intelligente Systeme, Tübingen, Germany

Matthias Bethge

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: HEG FAW MB. Performed the experiments: HEG. Analyzed the data: HEG. Wrote the paper: HEG FAW MB.

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