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  • About
  • The Global ETD Search service is a free service for researchers to find electronic theses and dissertations. This service is provided by the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations.
    Our metadata is collected from universities around the world. If you manage a university/consortium/country archive and want to be added, details can be found on the NDLTD website.
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Contributions of response gain and contrast gain to human spatial pattern masking

Wagge, Jordan Rose. January 2009 (has links)
Title from first page of PDF document. Includes bibliographical references (p. 29-32).
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Etude psychophysique des systèmes visuels magnocellulaire et parvocellulaire dans le vieillissement normal et proposition de réhabilitation des déficits : une approche en neuropsychologie cognitive / Psychophysical study of the magnocellular and parvocellular visual systems in normal aging and rehabilitation of deficits : approach a neuropsychological

Lenoble, Quentin 16 September 2011 (has links)
Cette thèse avait pour principal objectif d’étudier la dissociation du système magnocellulaire et parvocellulaire en testant l’évolution de ces systèmes dans le vieillissement normal et la réhabilitation à l’aide de lunettes à filtre jaune. Pour cela deux paradigmes expérimentaux dont les caractéristiques des stimuli permettaient de biaiser le traitement visuel vers l’un ou l’autre des deux systèmes et dont les tâches impliquaient un niveau de traitement cognitif plus ou moins élaboré ont été utilisés. A l’aide d’une tâche de discrimination de luminance, les travaux ont mis en évidence l’apparition d’un déficit parvocellulaire massif dans le vieillissement ainsi qu’un déficit magnocellulaire de moindre ampleur au début du vieillissement mais qui s’accentuait rapidement au-delà de 75 ans. Dans une tâche de catégorisation d’objets, la présence du déficit magnocellulaire avec l’âge et le grand âge a été corroborée mais aucune répercussion du déficit parvocellulaire mis en évidence à un niveau de traitement plus précoce n’a été observée dans cette tâche. Concernant la réhabilitation, seul le groupe de participants très âgé (>75 ans) a vu ses performances améliorées par le filtre jaune dans la condition impliquant spécifiquement le système magnocellulaire à l’épreuve de discrimination de luminance. Dans l’épreuve de catégorisation, les deux groupes de participants âgés et très âgés ont montré une diminution significative de leur temps de réponse avec le filtre jaune accompagnée d’une amélioration de la précision de catégorisation pour le groupe très âgé, spécifiquement dans la condition mettant en jeu le système magnocellulaire.L’ensemble des résultats confirment donc la dissociation neuropsychologique entre système magnocellulaire et parvocellulaire : ils peuvent être sollicités de façon privilégiée chez l’adulte jeune en faisant varier à la fois plusieurs caractéristiques de la stimulation et la tâche ; ils ne vieillissent pas au même rythme et l’un d’entre eux peut être spécifiquement réhabilité / The thesis aimed at studying the dissociation between the magnocellular and the parvocellular system by testing their evolution in normal aging and their rehabilitation with yellow filter glasses. Two experimental paradigms whose specific stimuli characteristics and task allow to bias visual processing toward one or the other system and which involved a low or an elaborated cognitive processing were used.In a luminance discrimination task, the results showed a massive parvocellular and a lower magnocellular deficit at the beginning of aging, but the magnocellular deficit increased rapidly beyond 75 years old. In an object categorization task, the presence of magnocellular deficit with age and very old age was corroborated but there was no parvocellular deficit suggesting that the parvocellular deficit found at earlier stage of processing had no consequence for higher-level processes.Regarding rehabilitation, yellow filter improved sensitivity in the discrimination of luminance specifically in the condition involving the magnocellular system and for the very old group of participants (> 75 years old) only. In the categorization task, yellow filter significantly decreased response time specifically in the condition isolating the magnocellular system for both old groups and increased the accuracy for the very-old group.Taken together, the results confirm the dissociation between the magnocellular and parvocellular systems. Magnocellular system undergoes age-related changes at later stage of ageing than parvocellular system and it could be rehabilitated with yellow filter
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Contributions of response gain and contrast gain to human spatial pattern masking

Wagge, Jordan Rose 11 August 2009 (has links)
No description available.
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Electrophysiological Events Related to Top-down Contrast Sensitivity Control

Misic, Bratislav 14 July 2009 (has links)
Stimulus-driven changes in the gain of sensory neurons are well-documented, but relatively little is known about whether analogous gain-control can also be effected in a top-down manner. A recent psychophysical study demonstrated that sensitivity to luminance contrast can be modulated by a priori knowledge (de la Rosa et al., in press). In the present study, event-related potentials were used to resolve the stages of information processing that facilitate such knowledge-driven adjustments. Groupwise independent component analysis identified two robust spatiotemporal patterns of endogenous brain activity that captured experimental effects. The first pattern was associated with obligatory processing of contextual information, while the second pattern was associated with selective initiation of contrast gain adjustment. These data suggest that knowledge-driven contrast gain control is mediated by multiple independent electrogenic sources.
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Electrophysiological Events Related to Top-down Contrast Sensitivity Control

Misic, Bratislav 14 July 2009 (has links)
Stimulus-driven changes in the gain of sensory neurons are well-documented, but relatively little is known about whether analogous gain-control can also be effected in a top-down manner. A recent psychophysical study demonstrated that sensitivity to luminance contrast can be modulated by a priori knowledge (de la Rosa et al., in press). In the present study, event-related potentials were used to resolve the stages of information processing that facilitate such knowledge-driven adjustments. Groupwise independent component analysis identified two robust spatiotemporal patterns of endogenous brain activity that captured experimental effects. The first pattern was associated with obligatory processing of contextual information, while the second pattern was associated with selective initiation of contrast gain adjustment. These data suggest that knowledge-driven contrast gain control is mediated by multiple independent electrogenic sources.

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