Halt and recovery of illusory motion perception from peripherally viewed static images

Tomimatsu, Erika; Ito, Hiroyuki; Shoji, Shuichi; Remijn, Gerard B.

doi:10.3758/s13414-011-0131-9

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“…They claimed that the illusion is caused directly by adaptation over time, rather than being driven by eye movements, suggesting that changes over time in the adapted states of visual neurons are sufficient to evoke a strong percept of motion (Petrov and Popple 2002). Tomimatsu et al (2011) also confirmed the crucial role of adaptation in the Fraser-Wilcox Illusion. Other authors stressed the crucial role of the fixational eye movements in eliciting the illusory motion.…”

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Do rhesus monkeys (Macaca mulatta) perceive illusory motion?

2015

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During the last decade, visual illusions have been used repeatedly to understand similarities and differences of visual perception of human and non-human animals. However, nearly all studies have focused only on illusions not related to motion perception and, to date, it is unknown whether non-human primates perceive any kind of motion illusion. In the present study we investigated whether rhesus monkeys (Macaca mulatta) perceived one of the most popular motion illusions in humans, the Rotating Snake illusion (RSI). To this purpose, we set up four experiments. In Experiment 1 subjects initially were trained to discriminate static vs. dynamic arrays. Once reaching the learning criterion, they underwent probe trials in which we presented the RSI and a control stimulus identical in overall configuration with the exception that the order of the luminance sequence was changed in a way that no apparent motion is perceived by humans. The overall performance of monkeys indicated that they spontaneously classified RSI as a dynamic array. Subsequently, we tested adult humans in the same task with the aim of directly comparing the performance of human and non-human primates (Experiment 2). In Experiment 3 we found that monkeys can be successfully trained to discriminate between the RSI and a control stimulus. Experiment 4 showed that a simple change in luminance sequence in the two arrays could not explain the performance reported in Exp. 3. These results suggest that some rhesus monkeys display a human-like perception of this motion illusion, raising the possibility that the neurocognitive systems underlying motion perception may be similar between human and non-human primates.

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Do rhesus monkeys (Macaca mulatta) perceive illusory motion?

2015

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“…Thus, the afterimages and focus rotation should contribute not only to the afterimage stage but also to the other stages that lead to the peripheral drift illusion, including the eye-opening and gaze stages. Indeed, the illusory rotation by the second FW stimulus is interfered if the first and second FW stimuli are repetitively presented at a short inter-stimulus interval [27] , implying the contribution of afterimages to this illusion. This discussion suggests that our retinal ON/OFF model may provide a systematic framework to understand the mechanisms underlying the peripheral drift illusion at all of its stages.…”

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A Computational Model of Afterimage Rotation in the Peripheral Drift Illusion Based on Retinal ON/OFF Responses

2014

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Human observers perceive illusory rotations after the disappearance of circularly repeating patches containing dark-to-light luminance. This afterimage rotation is a very powerful phenomenon, but little is known about the mechanisms underlying it. Here, we use a computational model to show that the afterimage rotation can be explained by a combination of fast light adaptation and the physiological architecture of the early visual system, consisting of ON- and OFF-type visual pathways. In this retinal ON/OFF model, the afterimage rotation appeared as a rotation of focus lines of retinal ON/OFF responses. Focus lines rotated clockwise on a light background, but counterclockwise on a dark background. These findings were consistent with the results of psychophysical experiments, which were also performed by us. Additionally, the velocity of the afterimage rotation was comparable with that observed in our psychophysical experiments. These results suggest that the early visual system (including the retina) is responsible for the generation of the afterimage rotation, and that this illusory rotation may be systematically misinterpreted by our high-level visual system.

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“…Other studies have reported that infants [20], fish [21], and cats [22] also perceive the RSI, and the intensity of the illusion decreases by age [23]. The effects of contrast [15], color [24], and afterimages [25] have also investigated in previous studies. In addition, a video prediction machine using deep neural networks has been found to perceive the RSI [26].…”

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Dynamic perceptive compensation for the rotating snakes illusion with eye tracking

2021

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This study developed a dynamic perceptive compensation system for the rotating snakes illusion (RSI) with eye tracking. Large eye movements, such as saccades and blinks, were detected with an eye tracker, and perceptive compensation was dynamically performed based on the characteristics of RSI perception. The proposed compensation system considered three properties: spatial dependence, temporal dependence, and individual dependence. Several psychophysical experiments were performed to confirm the effectiveness of the proposed system. After the preliminary verification and determination of the temporal-dependent function for RSI perception, the effects of gaze information on RSI control were investigated. Five algorithms were compared using paired comparison. This confirmed that the compensation system that took gaze information into account reduced the RSI effect better than compensation without gaze information at a significance threshold of p < 0.01, calculated with Bonferroni correction. Some algorithms that are dependent on gaze information reduced the RSI effects more stably than still RSI images, whereas spatially and temporally dependent compensation had a lower score than other compensation algorithms based on gaze information. The developed system and algorithm successfully controlled RSI perception in relation to gaze information. This study systematically handled gaze measurement, image manipulation, and compensation of illusory image, and can be utilized as a standard framework for the study of optical illusions in engineering fields.

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Halt and recovery of illusory motion perception from peripherally viewed static images

Cited by 8 publications

References 19 publications

Do rhesus monkeys (Macaca mulatta) perceive illusory motion?

Do rhesus monkeys (Macaca mulatta) perceive illusory motion?

A Computational Model of Afterimage Rotation in the Peripheral Drift Illusion Based on Retinal ON/OFF Responses

Dynamic perceptive compensation for the rotating snakes illusion with eye tracking

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