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  • Visual perception
  • Neuroscience
  • Psychophysics

Background:

  • Perceptual adaptation aftereffects traditionally alter stimulus features like color and contrast.
  • Spatial position shifts following adaptation have been noted but not fully characterized.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the impact of visual adaptation on spatial perception, specifically distance judgments.
  • To demonstrate and characterize the bi-directional spatial repulsion induced by adaptation.

Main Methods:

  • Observers judged distances between probe dot pairs in adapted and non-adapted regions.
  • Used size and density adapter stimuli, as well as single bars.
  • Assessed absolute position judgments using mouse pointing.

Main Results:

  • Visual adaptation induced bi-directional spatial repulsion in distance perception.
  • Distances were underestimated within the adapted area and overestimated when straddling it.
  • Spatial repulsion was similar for size and density adapters and stronger in the periphery.

Conclusions:

  • Visual adaptation generates bi-directional spatial repulsion, affecting both relative and absolute spatial judgments.
  • The lines of adapter stimuli are likely responsible for inducing spatial repulsion.
  • Peripheral presentation explains the stronger distance expansion compared to compression.