Motion components of VEPs to the waggon wheel effect.
Visual evoked potentials (VEPs) from eight subjects are presented from scalp sites O1, O2, T5, T6, P3 and P4. A spoked wheel was illuminated by a constantly flashing strobe. By adjusting the real angular speed of the wheel the subjective impression was given of; a stationary wheel, a wheel spinning slowly or spinning rapidly clockwise. Two visually identified components, a negativity and a positivity, were found to be of larger amplitude in response to motion. The results were interpreted as consistent with a model of AM proposing motion information to be processed within the visual system.
University of Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia.
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D005074:Evoked Potentials, Visual; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007088:Illusions / Q000502:physiology*; D008297:Male; D009039:Motion Perception / Q000502:physiology*; D009903:Optical Illusions / Q000502:physiology*; D013997:Time Factors