Abstract
We present experimental evidence that humans use phase information for detection and discrimination of visual signals (static sine waves) when sufficient a priori information is made available. Under these conditions human performance exceeds that of the best-possible phase-insensitive detector. There is a marked reduction in performance when signal-phase information is not given to the observer.
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