How temporal frequency affects global form coherence in Glass patterns
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Methods of Ex Situ and In Situ Investigations of Structural Transformations: The Case of Crystallization of Metallic Glasses
Published on: June 7, 2018
Annie M Day1, Melanie Palomares1
1Department of Psychology, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC 29208, United States.
Abstract:
Glass patterns are textural moirés from random dots. Sequential presentation of Glass patterns induces a sense of illusory motion. We evaluated how changes in temporal frequency affected the detection of global form in Glass patterns. We found linear improvement in coherence thresholds with increasing temporal frequency (Experiment 1), particularly in stimuli with large dot-pair separations (Experiment 2). These results support the notion that temporal and orientation information sum to boost sensitivity to visually obscure objects, and are discussed within the framework of "motion streak" detectors.
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