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dc.contributor.authorMay, Keith A.
dc.contributor.authorZhaoping, Li
dc.contributor.authorHibbard, Paul B.
dc.date.accessioned2014-05-15T10:01:01Z
dc.date.available2014-05-15T10:01:01Z
dc.date.issued2012-01-10
dc.identifier.citationMay , K A , Zhaoping , L & Hibbard , P B 2012 , ' Perceived direction of motion determined by adaptation to static binocular images ' , Current Biology , vol. 22 , no. 1 , pp. 28-32 . https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2011.11.025en
dc.identifier.issn0960-9822
dc.identifier.otherPURE: 16865168
dc.identifier.otherPURE UUID: e299e5a4-f140-441e-a352-d35e59e3087c
dc.identifier.otherWOS: 000299144200018
dc.identifier.otherScopus: 84855702659
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10023/4798
dc.descriptionThis work was supported by a grant to L.Z. from the Gatsby Charitable Foundation and EPSRC grant EP/H033955/1 to Joshua Solomon.en
dc.description.abstractIn Li and Atick's [1, 2] theory of efficient stereo coding, the two eyes' signals are transformed into uncorrelated binocular summation and difference signals, and gain control is applied to the summation and differencing channels to optimize their sensitivities. In natural vision, the optimal channel sensitivities vary from moment to moment, depending on the strengths of the summation and difference signals; these channels should therefore be separately adaptable, whereby a channel's sensitivity is reduced following overexposure to adaptation stimuli that selectively stimulate that channel. This predicts a remarkable effect of binocular adaptation on perceived direction of a dichoptic motion stimulus [3]. For this stimulus, the summation and difference signals move in opposite directions, so perceived motion direction (upward or downward) should depend on which of the two binocular channels is most strongly adapted, even if the adaptation stimuli are completely static. We confirmed this prediction: a single static dichoptic adaptation stimulus presented for less than 1 s can control perceived direction of a subsequently presented dichoptic motion stimulus. This is not predicted by any current model of motion perception and suggests that the visual cortex quickly adapts to the prevailing binocular image statistics to maximize information-coding efficiency.
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dc.language.isoeng
dc.relation.ispartofCurrent Biologyen
dc.rights© The Authors. This is an open access article, available from http://www.sciencedirect.comen
dc.subject3-systems theoryen
dc.subjectStimulus sizeen
dc.subjectPerceptionen
dc.subjectVisionen
dc.subjectUpdateen
dc.subjectSystemen
dc.subjectMechanismsen
dc.subjectVergenceen
dc.subjectMaskingen
dc.subjectSignalsen
dc.subjectQH301 Biologyen
dc.subject.lccQH301en
dc.titlePerceived direction of motion determined by adaptation to static binocular imagesen
dc.typeJournal articleen
dc.description.versionPublisher PDFen
dc.contributor.institutionUniversity of St Andrews. School of Psychology and Neuroscienceen
dc.contributor.institutionUniversity of St Andrews. Institute of Behavioural and Neural Sciencesen
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2011.11.025
dc.description.statusPeer revieweden


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