Contour Absence as a Critical Factor in the Inhibition of the Decay of a Movement Aftereffect

Aftereffect of visual movement: Storage in the absence of a patterned surround

“…Both Spigel (1962) and Honig (1969) have reported storage effects but under different conditions to those used in the present investigation. Spigel noted that storage occurred when the total visual field was dark or patternless for a period following induction, and Honig observed that storage occurs when the target present during the test phase is different from that fixated during the inducing phase.…”

“…1 Second, it is possible that the MAE is inhibited and the adapted state of the units prolonged. Spigel (1962Spigel ( , 1965 noted that this type of inhibition (which he called storage) occurred when S was in darkness, immediately after the inducing period. He found that the MAE, which normally dissipates after about IOsec, was still quite strong when the room was illuminated again.…”

Presence and absence of color selectivity in the motion aftereffect

“…This dissipation may, however, depend on not only the presence of an interstimulus interval, but also the presence of stimulation during that period. The motion aftereffect is known to show little reduction when a dark period is interpolated between the inspection and the test periods Spigel, 1962;Wohlgemuth, 1911), and Bonnet et al (1976) report storage of both noncontingent and pattern-contingent phases during relatively brief dark intervals. As subjects received patterned light stimulation during the IS-sec interstimulus interval in Experiment 1, the following experiment was conducted to determine whether this factor was important in demonstrating the contingent component.…”

A shape-contrast effect for briefly presented stimuli.

“…Motion aftereffects have been known to decay much more slowly in the absence of a test presentation; this is known as the storage effect (e.g., Sekuler & Pantie, 1967;Spigel, 1962;Wohlgemuth, 1911). Similar storage phenomena have been reported in a contrast threshold elevation effect (Thompson & Movshon, 1978) and in figural aftereffects for adapt-to-test intervals up to tens of seconds depending on the duration of adaptation (e.g., Hammer, 1949;Ikeda & Obatani, 1953;Sagara & Ohyama, 1957).…”