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Testing the link between visual suppression and intelligence
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Arranz-Paraíso S
; Serrano-Pedraza I
PLoS One
2018[]; 13
(7
): e0200151
PMID29979774
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The impairment to discriminate the motion direction of a large high contrast
stimulus or to detect a stimulus surrounded by another one is called visual
suppression and is the result of the normal function of our visual inhibitory
mechanisms. Recently, Melnick et al. (2013), using a motion discrimination task,
showed that intelligence strongly correlates with visual suppression (r = 0.71).
Cook et al. (2016) also showed a strong link between contrast surround
suppression and IQ (r = 0.87), this time using a contrast matching task. Our aim
is to test this link using two different visual suppression tasks: a motion
discrimination task and a contrast detection task. Fifty volunteers took part in
the experiments. Using Bayesian staircases, we measured duration thresholds in
the motion experiment and contrast thresholds in the spatial experiment. Although
we found a much weaker effect, our results from the motion experiment still
replicate previous results supporting the link between motion surround
suppression and IQ (r = 0.43). However, our results from the spatial experiment
do not support the link between contrast surround suppression and IQ (r = -0.09).
Methodological differences between this study and previous studies which could
explain these discrepancies are discussed.