Motion-induced blindness in normal observers

Bonneh, Yoram; Cooperman, Alexander; Sagi, Dov

doi:10.1038/35081073

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“…The involvement of the parietal system in both the perceptual disappearance and perceptual alternation has been suggested before. Bonneh et al (2001) compared motion-induced blindness to the extinction of salient stimuli experienced by patients with parietal lesions. Parietal patients often fail to perceive a salient object presented contralateral to the damage cortical hemisphere (Driver & Vuilleumier, 2001;Rees et al 2000).…”

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Perceptual Alternation Induced by Visual Transients

et al. 2005

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When our visual system is confronted with ambiguous stimuli, the perceptual interpretation spontaneously alternates between the competing incompatible interpretations. The timing of such perceptual alternations is highly stochastic and the underlying neural mechanisms are poorly understood. Here, we show that perceptual alternations can be triggered by a transient stimulus presented nearby. The induction was tested for four types of bistable stimuli: structure-from-motion, binocular rivalry, Necker cube, and ambiguous apparent motion. While underlying mechanisms may vary among them, a transient flash induced time-locked perceptual alternations in all cases. The effect showed a clear dependency on the adaptation to the dominant percept prior to the presentation of a flash. These perceptual alternations show many similarities to perceptual disappearances induced by transient stimuli

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Perceptual Alternation Induced by Visual Transients

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“…Salient visual stimuli can be blocked from conscious perception under a number of special conditions such as spatial masking [Dehaene et al, 2001], spatial crowding [Toet & Levi, 1992], binocular rivalry [ Logothetis, 1998], attentional blink [Raymond et al, 1992], repetition blindness [Kanwisher, 1987], change blindness [Rensink et al, 1997], inattentional blindness [Mack & Rock, 1998], and finally motion induced blindness (MIB) [Bonneh et al, 2001].…”

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“…When a global moving pattern is superimposed on a high contrast stationary or slowly moving stimuli, the latter disappear and reappear alternatively for periods of several seconds. When two adjacent, collinear or parallel Gabor patches are presented, they disappear and reappear simultaneously but when two orthogonal Gabor patches are presented, their disappearances are independent [Bonneh et al, 2001]. …”

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“…Such disappearance is unlikely to be explained by local adaptation or retinal stabilization effects. Finally, the effect does not depend on local masking, as targets continued to disappear even when surrounded by background-colored circular 'protection zones' that occluded the moving mask [Bonneh et al, 2001]. It has been argued that the disappearance of stimuli during MIB might reflect the higher-level attentional selection or disruption of attentional processing [Bonneh et al, 2001;Pettigrew & Funk, 2001].…”

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Orientation-Selective Adaptation during Motion-Induced Blindness

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When a global moving pattern is superimposed on high-contrast stationary or slowly moving stimuli, the latter occasionally disappear for periods of several seconds (Motion-Induced Blindness, MIB). In this study, an adaptation paradigm was used to determine if orientation-selective adaptation still occurs for the stimulus that is no longer visible. Two slowly-drifting, high-contrast Gabor patches were presented to observers. As soon as both patches disappeared, one was eliminated from the screen. After 2 s , two low contrast Gabor patches were presented as tests at the same locations and observers were asked to report their orientations. The observers' performance was significantly higher when the orientation of low contrast test patch was orthogonal to the orientation of the high 2 contrast adapting patch (p < 0.0001) for the location where the patch was present during MIB, even though it was perceptually invisible. The observers' performance was not significantly different at the adjacent control location where the stimulus was absent during the MIB. Although no stimulus was visible at either location, orientation selective adaptation was only preserved for the location at which the patch remained present. Since orientation information is processed in low-level visual areas like V1, we conclude that MIB originates in an area higher than V1.

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“…The contents of awareness are modulated by many factors that can depend on our perceptual organisation. One such phenomenon is motion-induced blindness (Bonneh et al 2001). Here a few small target stimuli, yellow dots, are placed inside a dark background containing a rotating grid of blue dots.…”

Section: Unconscious Perceptual Organisationmentioning

confidence: 99%