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Citation

Morgan M. J. Vis. 2013; 13(8): ePub.

Affiliation

Max-Planck Institute for Neurological Research, Köln, Germany, and City University London, UK.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2013, Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology)

DOI

10.1167/13.8.26

PMID

23902752

Abstract

Prolonged adaptation to a stimulus, such as a drifting grating, lowers sensitivity for detecting similar stimuli, and changes their appearance, for example, making gratings of the same orientation appear of lower contrast and move more slowly. It has been suggested that adaptation is increased by sustained attention to the adapting stimulus and is decreased by distracting attention with a competing task. This paper describes a novel 2AFC (spatial) measure of adaptation in which adaptation and bias are carefully distinguished by the random interleaving of different test conditions. The experiment revealed significant adaptation of perceived velocity, but no effect of attentional distraction.


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