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On the perceived location of global motion.
MedLine Citation:
PMID:  11888541     Owner:  NLM     Status:  MEDLINE    
Abstract/OtherAbstract:
We measured the effects of coherent motion of one set of dots on the perceived location of Gaussian envelopes formed by luminance modulation of a second set of dots. Perceived shifts in envelope location in the direction of coherent motion were obtained even when the dots forming the envelopes did not physically move in the direction of coherent motion. In such cases, perceived shifts coincided with stimulus configurations that permitted motion integration of the envelope dots with the coherently moving dots, for example, when envelope dots moved in random directions as opposed to being static. In subsequent experiments we explored the type of motion integration underlying the positional shifts obtained. We discounted the possibility that the visual system incorrectly attributes motion signals associated with coherently moving dots to envelope dots by demonstrating that positional shifts could be obtained even when the coherent dots were laterally displaced to either side of the envelope dots such that the regions occupied by the dots did not overlap. We also discounted spatio-temporal summation within the receptive fields of low-spatial-frequency motion-sensitive mechanisms by demonstrating that positional shifts persisted even when the dot displays were high-pass filtered. These results, coupled with the observation that the proportion of coherently moving dots required to produce positional shifts correlated well with global motion thresholds measured for the same dot configurations, suggests that visual processes which underlie motion-dependent positional shifts are based at least in part on cooperative interactions of the type implicated in global motion.
Authors:
Alexander J Mussap; Nicolaas Prins
Publication Detail:
Type:  Journal Article; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't    
Journal Detail:
Title:  Vision research     Volume:  42     ISSN:  0042-6989     ISO Abbreviation:  Vision Res.     Publication Date:  2002 Mar 
Date Detail:
Created Date:  2002-03-12     Completed Date:  2002-05-28     Revised Date:  2006-11-15    
Medline Journal Info:
Nlm Unique ID:  0417402     Medline TA:  Vision Res     Country:  England    
Other Details:
Languages:  eng     Pagination:  761-9     Citation Subset:  IM    
Affiliation:
School of Psychology, Deakin University, 221 Burwood Highway, Melbourne 3125, Australia. mussap@deakin.edu.au
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MeSH Terms
Descriptor/Qualifier:
Humans
Lighting
Male
Motion Perception*
Pattern Recognition, Visual
Photic Stimulation / methods
Psychophysics
Reaction Time
Sensory Thresholds
Visual Pathways

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