title: Perceptual and physiological evidence for a role for early visual areas in motion-induced blindness.
abstract: Visual disappearance illusions, such as motion-induced blindness, are commonly used to study the neural correlates of visual perception. In such illusions a salient visual target becomes perceptually invisible. Previous studies are inconsistent regarding the role of early visual areas in these illusions. Here we provide physiological and psychophysical evidence suggesting a role for early visual areas in generating motion-induced blindness, and we provide a conceptual model by which different brain areas might contribute to the perceptual disappearance in this illusion.
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA. camilo_libedinsky@hms.harvard.edu
authors.forename: Camilo
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Libedinsky
authors.forename: Tristram
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Savage
authors.forename: Margaret
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Livingstone
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000818:Animals; D001288:Attention / Q000502:physiology*; D001766:Blindness; D006801:Humans; D008251:Macaca; D008297:Male; D008959:Models, Neurological; D009039:Motion Perception / Q000502:physiology*; D009903:Optical Illusions / Q000502:physiology*; D011601:Psychophysics; D011930:Reaction Time; D014793:Visual Cortex / Q000502:physiology*; D014796:Visual Perception / Q000502:physiology*