| Direct evidence that "speedlines" influence motion mechanisms. | |
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PMID: 12351740 Owner: NLM Status: MEDLINE |
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Determining the direction of visual motion poses a serious problem for any visual system, given the inherent ambiguities. Geisler (1999) has suggested that motion streaks left in the wake of a moving target provide a rich source of potential information that could aid in resolving direction ambiguities. Here we provide strong experimental evidence that the human visual system does in fact exploit motion streaks in direction discrimination. Masks comprising oriented random noise impeded direction discrimination of moving dots when the masks were oriented parallel to the direction of motion but had very little effect when oriented orthogonal to the direction of motion. The masking effect decreased systematically with increasing bandwidth for the parallel masks and increased with bandwidth for the orthogonal masks. Importantly, these masks had little effect on neither contrast sensitivity for detecting the moving stimuli nor for speed discrimination. Experiments with "Glass patterns" (moiré patterns constructed from random dot pairs) confirmed that misleading pattern information can impede motion detection. The results show that the oriented streaks left by moving stimuli provide fundamental information about the direction of visual motion; removing these streaks or augmenting them with erroneous streaks severely confounds motion direction discrimination. |
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Authors:
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David C Burr; John Ross |
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Type: Journal Article |
Journal Detail:
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Title: The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience Volume: 22 ISSN: 1529-2401 ISO Abbreviation: J. Neurosci. Publication Date: 2002 Oct |
Date Detail:
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Created Date: 2002-09-27 Completed Date: 2002-10-24 Revised Date: 2004-11-17 |
Medline Journal Info:
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Nlm Unique ID: 8102140 Medline TA: J Neurosci Country: United States |
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Languages: eng Pagination: 8661-4 Citation Subset: IM |
Affiliation:
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Istituto di Neurofisiologia del Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Pisa 56100, Italy. dave@in.pi.cnr.it |
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Contrast Sensitivity
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physiology* Data Display Discrimination (Psychology) / physiology Humans Moire Topography / methods Motion Motion Perception / physiology* Pattern Recognition, Visual / physiology Photic Stimulation / instrumentation, methods Sensory Thresholds / physiology |
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