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Within a wide class of multichannel models of the visual system it is suggested that spatial distributions of luminance are processed by the independent activation of grating detectors, or spatial frequency channels. Probability summation is often described in terms of Quick's nonlinear pooling model [Quick RF (1974) Kybernetik 16:65–67]. Using this model, we find evidence for the existence of different kinds of nonlinear summation at threshold; for compound gratings with well-separated spatial frequency components, the threshold functions indicate nonlinear summation which is not compatible with probability summation, while for line patterns well separated in the spatial domain the probability summation rule proves compatible with the data.
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Received: 24 June 1998 / Accepted in revised form: 16 March 1999
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Meinhardt, G. Evidence for different nonlinear summation schemes for lines and gratings at threshold. Biol Cybern 81, 263–277 (1999). https://doi.org/10.1007/s004220050561
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s004220050561