We have examined the dependence of rotational acuity on the orientation bandwidth of a stimulus using two-dimensional, band-pass filtered, spatial noise. Stimuli had a bandwidth of 0.5 octave of spatial frequency, centred at 5.0 cyc/deg, and an orientation bandwidth that covered the range from 0.0 to 25.0 deg. Thresholds were obtained on one principal (vertical), and one oblique axis (45 deg). It was found that acuity declined on both axes as bandwidth increased, in a manner that was compatible with simple statistical principles with virtually perfect sampling of the image. There was some evidence that the intrinsic noise is greater on the oblique axis than on the vertical, and that oblique axes are less densely sampled than the principal axes. These differences are small and are insufficient, either on their own or taken together to explain the oblique effect.
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