"But still, it moves".
A striking example of our sensitivity to dynamic information is our ability to infer motion from still images depicted in paintings, photographs or cartoons. What are the neural mechanisms that mediate this implied motion perception? In a recent paper, Krekelberg et al. demonstrate that form cues that imply motion are integrated with real motion information, and influence perception in both humans and monkeys and the neural processing in prototypical motion areas of the monkey brain.
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Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Spemannstrasse 38, 72076 Tuebingen, Germany. zoe.kourtzi@tuebingen.mpg.de
D000818:Animals; D005556:Form Perception / Q000502:physiology*; D000882:Haplorhini; D006801:Humans; D007092:Imagination / Q000502:physiology*; D009039:Motion Perception / Q000502:physiology*; D009474:Neurons / Q000502:physiology; D011601:Psychophysics; D014793:Visual Cortex / Q000166:cytology / Q000502:physiology*