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Takeharu Seno1, Shoji Sunaga, Hiroyuki Ito
1Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan. seno@design.kyushu-u.ac.jp
Abstract:
We investigated the effects of colors on vection induction. Expanding optical flows during one's forward self-motion were simulated by moving dots. The dots and the background were painted in equiluminant red and green. Experiments 1 and 2 showed that vection was weaker when the background was red than when the background was green. In addition, Experiment 3 showed that vection was weaker when the moving dots were red than when the dots were green. Experiment 4 demonstrated that red dots on a red background induced very weak vection, as compared with green dots on a green background. In Experiments 5 and 6, we showed that the present results could not be explained by a luminance artifact. Furthermore, Experiment 7 showed that a moving red grating induced weaker vection than did a green one. We concluded that a red visual stimulus inhibits vection.
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