The motion aftereffect reloaded |
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Authors: | Mather George Pavan Andrea Campana Gianluca Casco Clara |
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Institution: | 1Department of Psychology, University of Sussex, Falmer, Brighton, BN1 9QH, UK;2Department of General Psychology, University of Padova, Via Venezia 8, 35131 Padova, Italy |
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Abstract: | The motion aftereffect is a robust illusion of visual motion resulting from exposure to a moving pattern. There is a widely accepted explanation of it in terms of changes in the response of cortical direction-selective neurons. Research has distinguished several variants of the effect. Converging recent evidence from different experimental techniques (psychophysics, single-unit recording, brain imaging, transcranial magnetic stimulation, visual evoked potentials and magnetoencephalography) reveals that adaptation is not confined to one or even two cortical areas, but occurs at multiple levels of processing involved in visual motion analysis. A tentative motion-processing framework is described, based on motion aftereffect research. Recent ideas on the function of adaptation see it as a form of gain control that maximises the efficiency of information transmission at multiple levels of the visual pathway. |
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