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Independent speed-tuned global-motion systems.
MedLine Citation:
PMID:  9747494     Owner:  NLM     Status:  MEDLINE    
Abstract/OtherAbstract:
Several experiments were conducted to investigate the role of speed in global-motion processing; the extraction of the direction of motion of a small subset of coherently-moving (signal) dots in a stimulus in which the other (noise) dots move in random directions. The specific aim of the experiments was to determine whether multiple speed-tuned global-motion systems exist. The results of these experiments are: (1) when the signal dots were chosen from a group of dots moving at 1.2 degrees s-1, the speed of additional-noise dots had to be below 4.8 degrees s-1 for them to affect global-motion extraction; (2) the addition of static dots did not impair the extraction of a global-motion signal carried by dots moving at 1.2 degrees s-1; (3) noise dots moving at 1.2 degrees s-1 impaired the extraction of a global-motion signal from dots moving at 10.8 degrees s-1, though not to the same extent as dots moving at a higher speed; and (4) these results were dependent upon speed, not spatial-step size or luminance contrast. These results are interpreted as indicating that global-motion extraction occurs within at least two independent speed tuned systems. One of these systems is sensitive to high speeds and the other to low speeds.
Authors:
M Edwards; D R Badcock; A T Smith
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Publication Detail:
Type:  Journal Article; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't    
Journal Detail:
Title:  Vision research     Volume:  38     ISSN:  0042-6989     ISO Abbreviation:  Vision Res.     Publication Date:  1998 Jun 
Date Detail:
Created Date:  1998-10-15     Completed Date:  1998-10-15     Revised Date:  2006-11-15    
Medline Journal Info:
Nlm Unique ID:  0417402     Medline TA:  Vision Res     Country:  ENGLAND    
Other Details:
Languages:  eng     Pagination:  1573-80     Citation Subset:  IM; S    
Affiliation:
Information Science Research Laboratory, NTT Basic Research Laboratories, Kanagawa, Japan. mark@hering.berkeley.edu
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MeSH Terms
Descriptor/Qualifier:
Humans
Male
Motion Perception / physiology*
Pattern Recognition, Visual / physiology
Sensory Thresholds / physiology
Time Factors

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