Speed discrimination of stereoscopic (cyclopean) motion
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Measuring Sensitivity to Viewpoint Change with and without Stereoscopic Cues
Published on: December 4, 2013
R Patterson1, M Donnelly, R E Phinney
1Department of Psychology, Washington State University, Pullman 99164-4820, USA. rpatter@mail.wsu.edu
Abstract:
This study investigated the degree to which speed of stereoscopic translational motion (i.e. moving binocular disparity information) can be discriminated in a display that minimizes position information. Observers viewed dynamic random-element stereograms depicting arrays of randomly positioned stereoscopic dots that moved bidirectionally. Two tasks were performed: a speed discrimination task and a displacement discrimination task. Across a range of conditions, speed could be discriminated under conditions in which displacement could not. Thus, speed of stereoscopic motion can be discriminated when position information is minimal. This result indicates that stereoscopic motion is sensed in a way that cannot be explained by feature tracking or by inferring the motion from memory of position and time.
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