Linking motion-induced blindness to perceptual filling-in.
"Motion-induced blindness" and "perceptual filing-in" are two phenomena in which perceptually salient stimuli repeatedly disappear and reappear after prolonged viewing. Despite the many similarities between MIB and PFI, two differences suggest that they could be unrelated phenomena: (1) An area surrounded by background stimuli can be perceived to disappear completely in PFI but not in MIB and (2) high contrast stimuli are perceived to disappear less easily in PFI but, remarkably enough, more easily in MIB. In this article we show that the apparent differences between MIB and PFI disappear when eccentricity, contrast, and perceptual grouping are taken into account and that both are most likely caused by the same underlying mechanism.
Hsu
Li-Chuan
LC
Department of Psychology, National Taiwan University, No. 1, Sec. 4, Roosevelt Rd., Taipei 106, Taiwan.
Yeh
Su-Ling
SL
Kramer
Peter
P
D000222:Adaptation, Physiological; D015350:Contrast Sensitivity; D005364:Field Dependence-Independence; D006801:Humans; D009039:Motion Perception; D009903:Optical Illusions; D010364:Pattern Recognition, Visual; D010775:Photic Stimulation / Q000379:methods; D011601:Psychophysics