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Citation

Ivry RB, Cohen A. J. Exp. Psychol. Hum. Percept. Perform. 1992; 18(4): 1045-1057.

Affiliation

Department of Psychology, University of California, Berkeley 94720.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1992, American Psychological Association)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

1431743

Abstract

Perception of motion speed was investigated with the visual search paradigm, using human Ss. When searching for a fast target among slow distractors, reaction time was minimally affected as the number of distractors was increased. In contrast, reaction time to detect a slow target among fast distractors was slow and linearly related to the number of distractors. The effect cannot be attributed to differences in temporal frequency, discriminability, or one type of representation that might result from spatiotemporal filtering. An alternative hypothesis that can account for the asymmetry is that speed detectors operate as high-pass filters in the velocity domain. This hypothesis is in agreement with results obtained in psychophysical studies on motion adaptation as well as data from single-cell recordings in nonhuman species.


Language: en

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