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Peñaloza B, Herzog MH, Öğmen H. Non-retinotopic adaptive center-surround modulation in motion processing. Vision Res 2020; 174:10-21. [DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2020.05.007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/16/2019] [Revised: 05/18/2020] [Accepted: 05/20/2020] [Indexed: 11/15/2022]
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Cali JN, Bennett PJ, Sekuler AB. Phase integration bias in a motion grouping task. J Vis 2020; 20:31. [PMID: 32729907 PMCID: PMC7424100 DOI: 10.1167/jov.20.7.31] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/24/2022] Open
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The perception of the direction of global motion depends on our ability to integrate local motion signals over space and time. We examined motion binding using a task requiring integration of relative phase. Observers completed multiple tasks involving clockwise and counter clockwise motion in a stimulus comprising four sets of linearly arranged dots, two moving horizontally and two moving vertically along sinusoidal trajectories differing in phase. Noise jitter was added along the trajectory perpendicular to each dot's motion. The noise acts as a global grouping cue that improves direction discrimination, but surprisingly, the absence of noise causes consistent below-chance performance (Lorenceau, 1996). We explore this phenomenon and subsequently test the hypothesis that observers perceive reverse motion because their representation of the relative phase of the motion components is systematically biased. We employ a number of different objective and subjective measures of motion integration and measure the phenomenon in both younger and older adults. Taken together, the results presented in the current article demonstrate that noise can promote global grouping in the stimulus and that confident, incorrect responses can be observed in the absence of correct global grouping. Generally, the current result raises the possibility that an integration bias could exist in other motion tasks.
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- Jessica N. Cali
- Department of Psychology, Neuroscience, and Behaviour, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
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- Department of Psychology, Neuroscience, and Behaviour, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
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- Department of Psychology, Neuroscience, and Behaviour, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
- Rotman Research Institute, Baycrest Health Sciences, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Department of Psychology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Souto D, Chudasama J, Kerzel D, Johnston A. Motion integration is anisotropic during smooth pursuit eye movements. J Neurophysiol 2019; 121:1787-1797. [PMID: 30840536 DOI: 10.1152/jn.00591.2018] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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Smooth pursuit eye movements (pursuit) are used to minimize the retinal motion of moving objects. During pursuit, the pattern of motion on the retina carries not only information about the object movement but also reafferent information about the eye movement itself. The latter arises from the retinal flow of the stationary world in the direction opposite to the eye movement. To extract the global direction of motion of the tracked object and stationary world, the visual system needs to integrate ambiguous local motion measurements (i.e., the aperture problem). Unlike the tracked object, the stationary world's global motion is entirely determined by the eye movement and thus can be approximately derived from motor commands sent to the eye (i.e., from an efference copy). Because retinal motion opposite to the eye movement is dominant during pursuit, different motion integration mechanisms might be used for retinal motion in the same direction and opposite to pursuit. To investigate motion integration during pursuit, we tested direction discrimination of a brief change in global object motion. The global motion stimulus was a circular array of small static apertures within which one-dimensional gratings moved. We found increased coherence thresholds and a qualitatively different reflexive ocular tracking for global motion opposite to pursuit. Both effects suggest reduced sampling of motion opposite to pursuit, which results in an impaired ability to extract coherence in motion signals in the reafferent direction. We suggest that anisotropic motion integration is an adaptation to asymmetric retinal motion patterns experienced during pursuit eye movements. NEW & NOTEWORTHY This study provides a new understanding of how the visual system achieves coherent perception of an object's motion while the eyes themselves are moving. The visual system integrates local motion measurements to create a coherent percept of object motion. An analysis of perceptual judgments and reflexive eye movements to a brief change in an object's global motion confirms that the visual and oculomotor systems pick fewer samples to extract global motion opposite to the eye movement.
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- David Souto
- Department of Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour, University of Leicester , Leicester , United Kingdom
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- Department of Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour, University of Leicester , Leicester , United Kingdom
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- Faculté de Psychologie et des Sciences de l'Education, University of Geneva , Geneva , Switzerland
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- School of Psychology, University of Nottingham , Nottingham , United Kingdom
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Lee ALF. The contribution of local and global motion adaptation in the repulsive direction aftereffect. J Vis 2018; 18:2. [PMID: 30458510 DOI: 10.1167/18.12.2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/24/2022] Open
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After adapting to a certain motion direction, our perception of a similar direction will be repelled away from the adapting direction, a phenomenon known as the direction aftereffect (DAE). As the motion system consists of local and global processing stages, it remains unclear how the adaptation of the two stages contributes in producing the DAE. The present study addresses this question by independently inducing adaptation at local and global motion-processing levels. Local adaptation was manipulated by presenting test stimuli at either adapted or nonadapted locations. Global adaptation was manipulated by embedding one or five global motion directions in the adapting motion. Repulsive DAE, when measured using a multiple-element test pattern, was stronger when it was produced by global adaptation than when produced by local adaptation. Specifically, the DAE resulting from local adaptation (a) decreased when test orientations differed from adapting orientation, (b) decreased when local directions were disambiguated using plaid stimuli, (c) remained the same even when attention was focused at specific test locations during adaptation, and (d) increased when tested with a single element. Overall, these findings suggest that the strength of repulsive DAE depends on both the motion-processing level at which adaptation occurs and the level at which the DAE was tested. Furthermore, the repulsive DAE arising from local adaptation alone can be explained by the propagation of local speed repulsion instead of local direction repulsion. Findings are discussed in the context of how motion aftereffects arise from the adaptation of a hierarchical motion system.
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- Alan L F Lee
- Department of Applied Psychology, Lingnan University, Hong Kong
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Tadin D. Suppressive mechanisms in visual motion processing: From perception to intelligence. Vision Res 2015; 115:58-70. [PMID: 26299386 DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2015.08.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 47] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/28/2015] [Revised: 07/31/2015] [Accepted: 08/04/2015] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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Perception operates on an immense amount of incoming information that greatly exceeds the brain's processing capacity. Because of this fundamental limitation, the ability to suppress irrelevant information is a key determinant of perceptual efficiency. Here, I will review a series of studies investigating suppressive mechanisms in visual motion processing, namely perceptual suppression of large, background-like motions. These spatial suppression mechanisms are adaptive, operating only when sensory inputs are sufficiently robust to guarantee visibility. Converging correlational and causal evidence links these behavioral results with inhibitory center-surround mechanisms, namely those in cortical area MT. Spatial suppression is abnormally weak in several special populations, including the elderly and individuals with schizophrenia-a deficit that is evidenced by better-than-normal direction discriminations of large moving stimuli. Theoretical work shows that this abnormal weakening of spatial suppression should result in motion segregation deficits, but direct behavioral support of this hypothesis is lacking. Finally, I will argue that the ability to suppress information is a fundamental neural process that applies not only to perception but also to cognition in general. Supporting this argument, I will discuss recent research that shows individual differences in spatial suppression of motion signals strongly predict individual variations in IQ scores.
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- Duje Tadin
- Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY 14627, USA; Center for Visual Science, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY 14627, USA; Department of Ophthalmology, University of Rochester School of Medicine, Rochester, NY 14642, USA.
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Global-motion aftereffect does not depend on awareness of the adapting motion direction. Atten Percept Psychophys 2014; 76:766-79. [PMID: 24430562 DOI: 10.3758/s13414-013-0609-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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It has been shown that humans cannot perceive more than three directions from a multidirectional motion stimulus. However, it remains unknown whether adapting to such imperceptible motion directions could generate motion aftereffects (MAEs). A series of psychophysical experiments were conducted to address this issue. Using a display consisting of randomly oriented Gabors, we replicated previous findings that observers were unable to perceive the global directions embedded in a five-direction motion pattern. However, adapting to this multidirectional pattern induced both static and dynamic MAEs, despite the fact that observers were unaware of any global motion directions during adaptation. Furthermore, by comparing the strengths of the dynamic MAEs induced at different levels of motion processing, we found that spatial integration of local illusory signals per se was sufficient to produce a significant global MAE. These psychophysical results show that the generation of a directional global MAE does not require conscious perception of the global motion during adaptation.
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Blumenthal EJ, Bosworth RG, Dobkins KR. Fast development of global motion processing in human infants. J Vis 2013; 13:8. [PMID: 24198399 DOI: 10.1167/13.13.8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/24/2022] Open
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Although global motion processing is thought to emerge early in infancy, there is debate regarding the age at which it matures to an adult-like level. In the current study, we address the possibility that the apparent age-related improvement in global motion processing might be secondary to age-related increases in the sensitivity of mechanisms (i.e., local motion detectors) that provide input to global motion mechanisms. To address this, we measured global motion processing by obtaining motion coherence thresholds using stimuli that were equally detectable in terms of contrast across all individuals and ages (3-, 4-, 5-, 6-, and 7-month-olds and adults). For infants, we employed a directional eye movement (DEM) technique. For adults, we employed both DEM and a self-report method. First, contrast sensitivity was obtained for a local task, using a stochastic motion display in which all the dots moved coherently. Contrast sensitivity increased significantly between 3 and 7 months, and between infancy and adulthood. Each subject was then tested on the global motion task with the contrast of the dots set to 2.5 × each individual's contrast threshold. Coherence thresholds were obtained by varying the percentage of coherently moving "signal" versus "noise" dots in the stochastic motion display. Results revealed remarkably stable global motion sensitivity between 3 and 7 months of age, as well as between infancy and adulthood. These results suggest that the mechanisms underlying global motion processing develop to an adult-like state very quickly.
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Gaudio JL, Huang X. Motion noise changes directional interaction between transparently moving stimuli from repulsion to attraction. PLoS One 2012; 7:e48649. [PMID: 23139808 PMCID: PMC3490855 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0048649] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/22/2012] [Accepted: 09/28/2012] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
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To interpret visual scenes, visual systems need to segment or integrate multiple moving features into distinct objects or surfaces. Previous studies have found that the perceived direction separation between two transparently moving random-dot stimuli is wider than the actual direction separation. This perceptual “direction repulsion” is useful for segmenting overlapping motion vectors. Here we investigate the effects of motion noise on the directional interaction between overlapping moving stimuli. Human subjects viewed two overlapping random-dot patches moving in different directions and judged the direction separation between the two motion vectors. We found that the perceived direction separation progressively changed from wide to narrow as the level of motion noise in the stimuli was increased, showing a switch from direction repulsion to attraction (i.e. smaller than the veridical direction separation). We also found that direction attraction occurred at a wider range of direction separations than direction repulsion. The normalized effects of both direction repulsion and attraction were the strongest near the direction separation of ∼25° and declined as the direction separation further increased. These results support the idea that motion noise prompts motion integration to overcome stimulus ambiguity. Our findings provide new constraints on neural models of motion transparency and segmentation.
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- Jennifer L. Gaudio
- Department of Neuroscience, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America
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- Department of Neuroscience, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America
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Maruya K, Amano K, Nishida S. Conditional spatial-frequency selective pooling of one-dimensional motion signals into global two-dimensional motion. Vision Res 2010; 50:1054-64. [PMID: 20353800 DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2010.03.016] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/12/2009] [Revised: 03/19/2010] [Accepted: 03/23/2010] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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This study examined spatial-frequency effects on a motion-pooling process in which spatially distributed local one-dimensional motion signals are integrated into the perception of global two-dimensional motion. Motion pooling over two- to three-octave frequency differences was found to be nearly impossible when all Gabor elements had circular envelopes, but possible when the width of high-frequency elements was reduced, and the stimulus as a whole formed a closed contour configuration. These results are consistent with a view that motion pooling is controlled by form information, and that spatial-frequency difference is one, but not an absolute, form cue of segmentation.
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- Kazushi Maruya
- NTT Communication Science Laboratories, Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation, 3-1 Morinosato Wakamiya Atsugi-shi, Kanagawa, Japan.
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Hisakata R, Murakami I. Illusory position shift induced by plaid motion. Vision Res 2009; 49:2902-10. [PMID: 19765606 DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2009.09.009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/11/2009] [Revised: 09/03/2009] [Accepted: 09/14/2009] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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In the motion-induced position shift (MIPS), the position of a moving pattern tapered by a stationary envelope is perceived to shift in the direction of the motion. It was found that plaid motion also elicited a MIPS in the direction of global motion and this global MIPS could not be predicted by the average of the local MIPSs due to component motions. We also used a pseudo plaid pattern and again observed a global MIPS that could not be predicted by the local MIPSs due to the components of the pseudo plaid pattern. We suggest the possibility that the receptive-field positions of global motion detectors shift in the direction opposite to global motion, resulting in a positional displacement in activation via population coding.
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- Rumi Hisakata
- Department of Life Sciences, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan.
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Thompson B, Aaen-Stockdale CR, Mansouri B, Hess RF. Plaid perception is only subtly impaired in strabismic amblyopia. Vision Res 2008; 48:1307-14. [DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2008.02.020] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/28/2007] [Revised: 12/14/2007] [Accepted: 02/28/2008] [Indexed: 10/22/2022]
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Chapman C, Hoag R, Giaschi D. The effect of disrupting the human magnocellular pathway on global motion perception. Vision Res 2005; 44:2551-7. [PMID: 15358070 DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2004.06.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 46] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/26/2003] [Revised: 05/28/2004] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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The purpose of this study was to demonstrate the effect of human magnocellular (M)-pathway disruption on global motion perception. Coherence thresholds for global motion direction discrimination in random dot patterns were determined at slow and moderate dot speeds: (1) after adaptation to full-field sinusoidal flicker or a steady gray field, and (2) on a red or a gray background. Adaptation to flicker and a red background increased motion coherence thresholds relative to the gray baseline conditions at both dot speeds. Physiological studies have shown that M cells in the retina and LGN are inhibited by red light and are a main contributor to flicker perception in monkeys. Therefore, our results suggest that interference with processing in the subcortical M pathway disrupts higher-level motion integration.
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- Craig Chapman
- Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, University of British Columbia, 4480 Oak Street, Room A146, Vancouver, BC, Canada V6H 3V4
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Takahashi N. Effect of Spatial Configuration of Motion Signals on Motion Integration across Space. SWISS JOURNAL OF PSYCHOLOGY 2004. [DOI: 10.1024/1421-0185.63.3.173] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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The present study examined the effect of the spatial configuration of local signals on motion integration across space. The perceived coherency was measured in different configurations of apertures and combinations of motion directions. The results showed the following. (1) Motion integration across separate apertures is affected by the spatial configuration of the apertures. The perceived coherency was highest when the apertures were arranged symmetrically with respect to the coherent direction. (2) Though the spatial configuration of apertures are the same, the assignment of each local motion to each apertures has an effect, and converging local motions are integrated more than diverging local motions. (3) There is a limit to the direction difference of local motions. These results suggest that the spatial structure of global motion behind apertures has a considerable effect on the integration of local motions in apertures.
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Takahashi N. Temporal and spatial factors in motion integration 1The article is based on a presentation at the Joint Swiss-Japanese Scientific Seminar Human Motion Perception, Eye Movements, and Orientation in Visual Space, supported by the Swiss National Science Foundation in cooperation with the Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science, in Gunten (Switzerland) May 19-21, 1999. Some of the experimental results were presented at the twentieth European Conference on Visual Perception in Helsinki (Takahashi & Groner, 1997). This article was written when the author was on a one-year residence at VISLAB. Department of Psychology, University of Bern. I would like to thank Professor Rudolf Groner for his continuous support of my work. My thanks go also to the anonymous referees of this article who provided helpful suggestions for its final revision. SWISS JOURNAL OF PSYCHOLOGY 2000. [DOI: 10.1024//1421-0185.59.2.115] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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The temporal and spatial factors in the integration of the perceived direction of motion were examined in two experiments. Experiment 1 measured the spatial limit of motion integration in multi-aperture viewing. It was found that the strength of the interaction between apertures depends on the distance between them and that the distance is the “real” spatial distance rather than the distance on the retina. Experiment 2 investigated the effect of temporal and spatial overlap on globally coherent motion. The results showed that in the integration of local motion spread over space and time temporal overlap is the most important factor. It is more important than spatial factors such as intersection, distance between apertures or the phases of moving patterns. These results provide the temporal and spatial requirements for motion integration of local motions. A relationship of these requirements to object perception is suggested.
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