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Motion adaptation improves acuity (but perceived size doesn't matter).

Selassie Tagoh^1,2, Lisa M Hamm^1,3, Dietrich S Schwarzkopf^1,4,5

¹School of Optometry & Vision Science, The University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand.

Journal of Vision

|October 4, 2022

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Motion adaptation enhances visual acuity, but not as expected. Unexpectedly, both receding and looming motion improved recognition acuity, a gain not linked to perceived size changes.

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Area of Science:

Vision science
Neuroscience
Perceptual psychology

Background:

Recognition acuity is limited by optical, neural, and visual cortex processing.
Perceived object size can be altered by motion adaptation, potentially affecting acuity.

Purpose of the Study:

To investigate the reliability of acuity changes induced by motion adaptation.
To identify the underlying mechanisms driving these acuity changes.

Main Methods:

Measured recognition acuity for crowded tumbling-T stimuli after adaptation to receding and looming motion.
Quantified the influence of crowding, individual motion adaptation susceptibility, pupil size, and eye movements.

Main Results:

Adaptation to receding motion improved acuity (-0.037 logMAR) and made targets appear larger.
Adaptation to looming motion also improved acuity (-0.018 logMAR), despite making targets appear smaller.
Acuity changes were not correlated with perceived size changes, crowding, fixation stability, or pupil size.

Conclusions:

Motion adaptation modestly enhances visual acuity, independent of perceived size alterations.
The acuity gains are likely due to incidental effects on visual sensitivity, possibly by shifting sensitivity to higher spatial frequencies, rather than perceived size changes.