Figure 8

Examples of stimuli used in Experiment 2. The first two rows show the 22 stimuli presented to one observer during the first block of the experiment. The observer discriminated between the same two textures during the whole experiment. The noise level varied from 100% (left side; 0% phase coherence) to 0% (right side; 100% phase coherence). Histograms in the third row show the distribution of pixel contrasts averaged across all stimuli seen by this observer at each level of phase coherence. Note that, unlike the stimuli used in Experiment 1, the pixel histograms had a relatively constant Gaussian distribution across all levels of phase coherence. This constant histogram distribution is depicted in the last row, showing the mean skewness (left), and mean kurtosis (middle), as a function of phase coherence. The error bars correspond to 95% confidence interval computed using a bootstrap percentile technique (1000 resamples). In the bottom right end graph, kurtosis for each image (each circle) is expressed as a function of skewness. There was no relationship between the two statistical descriptors.