title: Illusory flashes and perception.
abstract: Information from the environment can be based on a single or several modalities. The simultaneous processing of information separated in space and/or time depends on multiple factors. Visual illusions serve as a good tool with which to investigate the parallel processing of information and their interactions. This study was designed to gain information about a unimodal illusion: a target that flashes once seems to flash more as a result of a simultaneously presented inducer flashing several times nearby. The first aim of this work was to understand whether the number of perceived flashes is merely a result of a bias in the criterion level or whether it is based on a real percept. We then clarified how the illusion finds its way into the percept. The final step was designed to establish the logic of the processing in the background by determining whether the modality appropriateness hypothesis, the information reliability hypothesis, or the discontinuity theory best explains the predominant role of the inducer.
authors.affiliation: Department of Physiology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Szeged, Szeged, Hungary.
authors.forename: Péter
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Csibri
authors.forename: Péter
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Kaposvári
authors.forename: Gyula
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Sáry
mesh_terms: D005260:Female; D005425:Flicker Fusion / Q000502:physiology; D006801:Humans; D007088:Illusions / Q000502:physiology*; D008297:Male; D010775:Photic Stimulation; D014796:Visual Perception / Q000502:physiology*; D055815:Young Adult
keywords: contextual; flicker; illusion; integration; temporal vision