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Motion-Acuity Test for Visual Field Acuity Measurement with Motion-Defined Shapes
Published on: February 23, 2024
The perception of motion transparency: a signal-to-noise limit
Mark Edwards1, John A Greenwood
1School of Psychology, Australian National University, Canberra 0200, Australia. mark.edwards@anu.edu.au
Abstract:
A number of studies were conducted to determine how many transparent motion signals observers could simultaneously perceive. It was found that that the limit was two. However, observers required a signal intensity of about 42% in order to perceive a bi-directional transparent stimulus. This signal level was about three times that required to detect a uni-directional motion signal, and higher than was physically possible to achieve in a tri-directional stimulus (in a stimulus in which the different transparent signals are defined only by direction). These results indicate that signal intensity plays an important role in establishing the transparency limit and, as a consequence, implicates the global-motion area (V5/MT) in this process.
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