Cross-domain adaptation reveals that a common mechanism computes stereoscopic (cyclopean) and luminance plaid motion

Across three experiments, this study investigated the visual processing of moving stereoscopic plaid patterns (plaids created with cyclopean components defined by moving binocular disparity embedded in a dynamic random-dot stereogram). Results showed that adaptation to a moving stereoscopic plaid or its components affected the perceived coherence of a luminance test plaid, and vice versa. Cross-domain adaptation suggests that stereoscopic and luminance motion signals feed into a common pattern-motion mechanism, consistent with the idea that stereoscopic motion signals are computed early in the motion processing stream.