scholarly journals Discontinuity of seen motion reduces the visual motion aftereffect

1972 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 69-72 ◽  
Author(s):  
William P. Banks ◽  
Dan A. Kane
2011 ◽  
Vol 23 (6) ◽  
pp. 1395-1404 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ruth Seurinck ◽  
Floris P. de Lange ◽  
Erik Achten ◽  
Guy Vingerhoets

A growing number of studies show that visual mental imagery recruits the same brain areas as visual perception. Although the necessity of hV5/MT+ for motion perception has been revealed by means of TMS, its relevance for motion imagery remains unclear. We induced a direction-selective adaptation in hV5/MT+ by means of an MAE while subjects performed a mental rotation task that elicits imagined motion. We concurrently measured behavioral performance and neural activity with fMRI, enabling us to directly assess the effect of a perturbation of hV5/MT+ on other cortical areas involved in the mental rotation task. The activity in hV5/MT+ increased as more mental rotation was required, and the perturbation of hV5/MT+ affected behavioral performance as well as the neural activity in this area. Moreover, several regions in the posterior parietal cortex were also affected by this perturbation. Our results show that hV5/MT+ is required for imagined visual motion and engages in an interaction with parietal cortex during this cognitive process.


PLoS ONE ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 7 (5) ◽  
pp. e36803 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maori Kobayashi ◽  
Wataru Teramoto ◽  
Souta Hidaka ◽  
Yoichi Sugita

Perception ◽  
1996 ◽  
Vol 25 (1_suppl) ◽  
pp. 113-113
Author(s):  
N Osaka ◽  
H Ashida ◽  
M Osaka ◽  
S Koyama ◽  
R Kakigi

Motion aftereffect (MAE) is a negative aftereffect caused by prolonged viewing of visual motion: after gazing at a moving grating for a while, a stationary image will appear to move in the opposite direction (Ashida and Osaka, 1995 Vision Research35 1825). Evoked magnetic field (magnetoencephalogram: MEG) was measured on a human subject observing visual motion and MAE. Magnetic evoked field (80 averagings) was measured from 37 points over occipital and parietal areas (Magnes SQUID biomagnetometer, BTi) during watching a horizontally moving sinusoidal grating with low spatial frequency (2 cycles deg−1 with 5 Hz: motion condition) and immediately after stopping the moving grating (MAE condition). Dipole estimates based on equal magnetic field contour suggest that the main loci subserving visual motion and MAE appear to be the surrounding region over occipital and parietal areas in the human brain. Further analysis is now underway. In general, this appears to be in good agreement with another study using fMRI-based MAE measures [Tootell et al, 1995 Nature (London)375 139] in which a clear increase in activity in these areas was observed when subjects viewed MAE.


2016 ◽  
Vol 10 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher C. Berger ◽  
H. Henrik Ehrsson

Perception ◽  
1977 ◽  
Vol 6 (6) ◽  
pp. 711-718 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gordon G Denton

Visual motion aftereffect characteristics comparable to those associated with rotary and translatory movement of a test field are demonstrated for simulated rectilinear motion of the observer. The intensity and time duration of the phenomenon are shown to be positively correlated. The implications of this for individual observers are considered. The results of this experiment are correlated with those for adaptation and for recovery from adaptation that were obtained from the same group of observers. The findings are shown to support the hypothesis that visual motion aftereffect is a manifestation of the adaptation recovery function of velocity sensitive mechanisms.


2006 ◽  
Vol 173 (1) ◽  
pp. 141-152 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tatjana Seizova-Cajic ◽  
W. L. Ben Sachtler ◽  
Ian S. Curthoys

Science ◽  
1963 ◽  
Vol 140 (3562) ◽  
pp. 57-59 ◽  
Author(s):  
T. R. Scott ◽  
D. A. Powell

Perception ◽  
1994 ◽  
Vol 23 (10) ◽  
pp. 1111-1134 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicholas J Wade

The visual motion aftereffect (MAE) was initially described after observation of movements in the natural environment, like those seen in rivers and waterfalls: stationary objects appeared to move briefly in the opposite direction. In the second half of the nineteenth century the MAE was displaced into the laboratory for experimental enquiry with the aid of Plateau's spiral. Such was the interest in the phenomenon that a major review of empirical and theoretical research was written in 1911. In the latter half of the present century novel stimuli (like drifting gratings, isoluminance patterns, spatial and luminance ramps, random-dot kinematograms, and first-order and second-order motions), introduced to study space and motion perception generally, have been applied to examine MAEs. Developing theories of cortical visual processing have drawn upon MAEs to provide a link between psychophysics and physiology; this has been most pronounced in the context of monocular and binocular channels in the visual system, the combination of colour and contour information, and in the cortical sites most associated with motion processing. The relatively unchanging characteristic of the study of MAEs has been the mode of measurement: duration continues to be used as an index of its strength, although measures of threshold elevation and nulling with computer-generated motions are becoming more prevalent. The MAE is a part of the armoury of motion phenomena employed to uncover the mysteries of vision. Over the last 150 years it has proved itself immensely adaptable to the shifts of fashion in visual science, and it is likely to continue in this vein.


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