Natural scene statistics predict how humans pool information across space in surface tilt estimation
Fig 11
Pooling sizes from natural scene statistics vs. pooling sizes that maximize estimation and prediction performance.
Adaptive pooling regions predicted by natural scene statistics predict the pooling regions that independently maximize performance at each groundtruth tilt. A Equivalent pooling diameters fit to the natural scene statistics (black; same data as Fig 9B) and equivalent pooling diameters that minimize estimation error are plotted as a function of groundtruth tilt. The left and right columns represent data from Exp 1 and Exp 2, respectively. B Best estimation diameters are correlated with the diameters fit to the natural scene statistics. C Equivalent pooling diameters fit to the natural scene statistics (black) and equivalent pooling diameters that minimize prediction error (blue), plotted as a function of groundtruth tilt. D Best prediction diameters are correlated with the diameters fit to the natural scene statistics. All correlations were significant at the level of p<0.05; all but one were significant at the level of p<0.001.