Illusory perception of alternating vertical apparent motion in sequential random texture displays

Illusory motion perception in blindsight.

Motion detection is typically spared in blindsight, which results from damage to the striate cortex (area V1) of the brain that is sufficient to eliminate conscious visual awareness and severely reduce sensitivity to luminance contrast, especially for high spatial and low temporal frequencies. Here we show that the discrimination of motion direction within cortically blind fields is not attribu...

xx Illusory Color Spread from Apparent Motion

Encoding apparent motion in animated mimic displays.

Animated mimic displays represent system components, the physical connections between components, and the analogical flow of information or resources. These displays have the potential to improve the effectiveness of both training and real-time performance. One animation technique that is particularly efficient (from a computational perspective) is color table animation, which produces a subjec...

Young infants' perception of illusory contours in dynamic displays.

Ninety-six 4-month-old infants were habituated to one of three computer-generated displays depicting two rod parts above and below an occluding box. In the first display, the surfaces and boundaries of the rod and box were specified by dense surface texture. Their depth segregation was specified by accretion and deletion of background texture and motion shear. In the second display, the unity o...

The perception of apparent motion.

P roducers of motion pictures, tele­ vision programs and even neon signs have long banked on the fact that human beings have a quirk in their visual system. When it is con­ fronted with a rapid series of still im­ ages, the mind can "fill in" the gaps between "frames" and imagine that it sees an object in continuous motion. For instance, a series of neon arrows lighted up in succession are perc...