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Influences of motion and depth on brightness induction: an illusory transparency effect?
Kazunori Morikawa1, Thomas V Papathomas
1Department of Information and Management Science, Otaru University of Commerce, Midori, Otaru 047-8501, Japan. kaz@res.otaru-uc.ac.jp
Abstract:
To experiments were performed to investigate whether motion and binocular disparity influence brightness induction, and whether the effects of motion and binocular disparity, if any, interact with each other. In order to introduce motion, textured backgrounds were used as the inducing field. The results showed that motion and/or crossed disparity reduce brightness induction, whereas uncrossed disparity increases it. The effect of motion and the effect of disparity are independent of each other and additive, which suggests that, to the extent that brightness induction reflects segmentation of objects, motion and binocular disparity serve independently to segment objects from their background. The difference between the effects of crossed and uncrossed disparity can be explained by what we call 'illusory transparency'.
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