Visual search of expansion and contraction
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Quantification of Strain in a Porcine Model of Skin Expansion Using Multi-View Stereo and Isogeometric Kinematics
Published on: April 16, 2017
1Information Science Laboratory, NTT Basic Research Laboratories, Kanagawa, Japan. tatsuto@apollo3.BRL.ntt.co.jp
Abstract:
The perception of expansion/contraction in human subjects was examined with a visual search paradigm. When searching for a target defined by two-dimensional expansion among distractors defined by two-dimensional contraction, the time needed to find the target did not vary as the number of distractors was increased. However, for a target defined by two-dimensional contraction among distractors defined by two-dimensional expansion, the search time increased as a function of the number of distractors in the display. A similar search asymmetry remained between one-dimensional expansion and one-dimensional contraction, even though one-dimensional expansion was searched in a serial manner. This asymmetry between expansion and contraction reflects a basic characteristic of higher-order motion information processing.
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