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Center-surround effects on perceived speed.
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PMID:  20600233     Owner:  NLM     Status:  In-Process    
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We investigated whether center-surround interactions affect perceived speed in a manner similar to their effects on direction discrimination thresholds [e.g. Tadin, D., Lappin, J. S., Gilroy, L. A., & Blake, R. (2003). Perceptual consequences of center-surround antagonism in visual motion processing. Nature, 424, 312-315]. Observers were asked to match the speed of a test stimulus (a grating, with fixed contrast and no surround) to that of a reference stimulus of variable contrast and with a variably sized surround, moving at one of two possible velocities (1 and 12cps). At 1-cps, both lowering contrast and increasing surround-size resulted in a decrease in perceived speed, except for very low contrast stimuli, where a larger surround resulted in an increase in perceived speed. Although the effect of surround-size was comparable in the two velocity conditions, the effect of contrast was different at 12-cps. That is, in the 12cps condition, a decrease in perceived speed was observed only for the lowest contrast used. Our results suggest that, at least for the lower velocity used, center-surround interactions affect perceived speed in a manner analogous to their effect on direction discrimination.
Authors:
Maarten J van der Smagt; Frans A J Verstraten; Chris L E Paffen
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Publication Detail:
Type:  Journal Article     Date:  2010-06-25
Journal Detail:
Title:  Vision research     Volume:  50     ISSN:  1878-5646     ISO Abbreviation:  Vision Res.     Publication Date:  2010 Aug 
Date Detail:
Created Date:  2010-08-16     Completed Date:  -     Revised Date:  -    
Medline Journal Info:
Nlm Unique ID:  0417402     Medline TA:  Vision Res     Country:  England    
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Languages:  eng     Pagination:  1900-4     Citation Subset:  IM    
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Copyright 2010 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
Affiliation:
Utrecht University, Helmholtz Institute, Experimental Psychology Division, Heidelberglaan 2, 3584 CS Utrecht, Netherlands. M.J.vanderSmagt@uu.nl
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