Center-surround effects on perceived speed |
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Authors: | Maarten J. van der Smagt Frans A.J. Verstraten Chris L.E. Paffen |
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Affiliation: | Utrecht University, Helmholtz Institute, Experimental Psychology Division, Heidelberglaan 2, 3584 CS Utrecht, Netherlands |
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Abstract: | We investigated whether center-surround interactions affect perceived speed in a manner similar to their effects on direction discrimination thresholds [e.g. Tadin, D., Lappin, J. S., Gilroy, L. A., & Blake, R. (2003). Perceptual consequences of center-surround antagonism in visual motion processing. Nature, 424, 312-315]. Observers were asked to match the speed of a test stimulus (a grating, with fixed contrast and no surround) to that of a reference stimulus of variable contrast and with a variably sized surround, moving at one of two possible velocities (1 and 12 cps). At 1-cps, both lowering contrast and increasing surround-size resulted in a decrease in perceived speed, except for very low contrast stimuli, where a larger surround resulted in an increase in perceived speed. Although the effect of surround-size was comparable in the two velocity conditions, the effect of contrast was different at 12-cps. That is, in the 12 cps condition, a decrease in perceived speed was observed only for the lowest contrast used. Our results suggest that, at least for the lower velocity used, center-surround interactions affect perceived speed in a manner analogous to their effect on direction discrimination. |
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Keywords: | Motion Center-surround interactions Contrast Speed |
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