Hand Positions Alter Bistable Visual Motion Perception

Hand Positions Alter Bistable Visual Motion Perception

We found that a hand posture with the palms together located just below the stream/bounce display could increase the proportion of bouncing perception. This effect, called the hands-induced bounce (HIB) effect, did not occur in the hands-cross condition or in the one-hand condition. By using rubber hands or covering the participants' hands with a cloth, we demonstrated that the visual informati...

Auditory and visual stimuli alter tactile motion perception

Recently Sekuler et al. [1] investigated the motion-bounce illusion and found that sound can influence ambiguous visual motion perception. Here we investigated the motionbounce illusion in the tactile-auditory and the tactile-visual domain. Using a vibro-tactile belt consisting of 7 vibrators we generated tactile apparent motion stimuli by sequentially activating neighboring motors with an onse...

Audiovisual associations alter the perception of low-level visual motion

Motion perception is a pervasive nature of vision and is affected by both immediate pattern of sensory inputs and prior experiences acquired through associations. Recently, several studies reported that an association can be established quickly between directions of visual motion and static sounds of distinct frequencies. After the association is formed, sounds are able to change the perceived ...

Perception of Visual Motion

Visual motion perception.

The primate visual motion system performs numerous functions essential for survival in a dynamic visual world. Prominent among these functions is the ability to recover and represent the trajectories of objects in a form that facilitates behavioral responses to those movements. The first step toward this goal, which consists of detecting the displacement of retinal image features, has been stud...