Motion assimilation for expansion/contraction and rotation and its spatial properties.
In a two-frame apparent motion display, a test grating was displaced horizontally or vertically in the presence of an inducer of which component gratings made up expanding/contracting or rotational motion as a whole. In the first experiment, we demonstrated that motion assimilation did occur for the test accompanied by the two-dimensional motion of the inducer. In the second experiment, we showed that the spatial limit of motion assimilation for expansion/contraction or rotation was large, extending over at least a visual angle of 14-21 deg in diameter, but spatial summation did not occur within the limit. The results were discussed in terms of the interaction between local motion detectors and higher-order detectors which monitor global motion of the whole stimulus pattern.
Ohtani
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Laboratory of Psychology, Faculty of Engineering and Design, Kyoto Institute of Technology, Japan. ohtani@hiei.kit.ac.jp
Tanigawa
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Ejima
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D006801:Humans; D009039:Motion Perception / Q000502:physiology*; D009903:Optical Illusions / Q000502:physiology; D010364:Pattern Recognition, Visual / Q000502:physiology*; D011601:Psychophysics; D012399:Rotation