title: The changing face of visual persistence.
abstract: In three experiments, the effect of target luminance on estimates of visual persistence was determined on a popular successive-field task. Even though the experiments differed from each other only in terms of minor changes in stimulus conditions, very different effects were obtained across the three experiments. The different findings were attributed to the often overlooked roles of masking and target degradation on tasks of persistence. Implications for the numerous contradictory findings in the persistence literature are discussed, and the current popularity of the successive-field task is questioned.
authors.affiliation: Villanova University.
authors.forename: G M
authors.initials: GM
authors.lastname: Long
authors.forename: C L
authors.initials: CL
authors.lastname: O'Saben
mesh_terms: D000360:Afterimage; D005366:Figural Aftereffect; D006801:Humans; D008029:Lighting; D008959:Models, Neurological; D010470:Perceptual Masking; D012107:Research Design; D014794:Visual Fields