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A computer-based cathode-ray tube display system was employed to study further the sequential blanking effect as a function of the geometric properties of the input array. Five outline squares were displayed sequentially, employing a spatio-temporal ordering designed to produce blanking of two of the squares. The two blanked squares were then progressively changed into trapezoids, which produced a dramatic weakening of the blanking effect, and the results were related to a visual information processing model involving complex patterns of lateral inhibition interacting within receptive fields of varying orders of complexity within the visual cortex.
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This research was supported by Grant No. GB-8037 from the National Science Foundation to the first author.
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Mayzner, M., Tresselt, M. Sequential blanking: A function of geometric analyzers in the human visual system. Psychon Sci 17, 77–78 (1969). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03336452
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