An advantage for horizontal motion direction discrimination

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Titel: An advantage for horizontal motion direction discrimination
Autoren: Karin S. Pilz, Danai Papadaki
Weitere Verfasser: University of Aberdeen.Psychology
Quelle: Vision Research. 158:164-172
Verlagsinformationen: Elsevier BV, 2019.
Publikationsjahr: 2019
Schlagwörter: Adult, Male, CORTEX, BF Psychology, Adolescent, Horizontal motion, ORIENTATION ANISOTROPIES, Motion Perception, BF, Motion perception, Young Adult, 03 medical and health sciences, ASYMMETRIES, Discrimination, Psychological, 0302 clinical medicine, Orientation, Motion direction discrimination, Psychophysics, Humans, 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences, RECEPTIVE-FIELDS, PERCEPTION, VISUAL EXPERIENCE, 05 social sciences, ATTENTION, Oblique effect, STIMULI, Sensory Thresholds, PSYCHOPHYSICS, Female
Beschreibung: Discrimination performance is better for cardinal motion directions than for oblique ones, a phenomenon known as the oblique effect. In a first experiment of this paper, we tested the oblique effect for coarse motion direction discrimination and compared performance for the two cardinal and two diagonal motion directions. Our results provide evidence for the oblique effect for coarse motion direction discrimination. Interestingly, the oblique effect was larger between horizontal and diagonal than between vertical and diagonal motion directions. In a second experiment, we assessed fine motion direction discrimination for horizontal and vertical motion. It has been suggested that differences in performance strongly depend on motion coherence. Therefore, we tested performance at predetermined motion coherences of 30%, 40%, 50%, 60% and 70%. Unsurprisingly, performance overall increased with increasing motion coherence and angular deviations between control and test stimulus. More importantly, however, we found an advantage for horizontal over vertical fine motion direction discrimination. Noteworthy is the large variability in performance across experimental conditions in both experiments, which highlights the importance of considering individual difference when assessing perceptual phenomena within large groups of naïve participants.
Publikationsart: Article
Dateibeschreibung: application/pdf
Sprache: English
ISSN: 0042-6989
DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2019.03.005
Zugangs-URL: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30878277
https://research.rug.nl/en/publications/215cfcd6-3e8e-4e52-8ac2-393c5a48a400
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https://doi.org/10.1016/j.visres.2019.03.005
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30878277
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https://www.rug.nl/research/portal/files/78206791/Pilz_Papadaki_VR_2019.pdf
https://europepmc.org/abstract/MED/30878277
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30878277/
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Abstract:Discrimination performance is better for cardinal motion directions than for oblique ones, a phenomenon known as the oblique effect. In a first experiment of this paper, we tested the oblique effect for coarse motion direction discrimination and compared performance for the two cardinal and two diagonal motion directions. Our results provide evidence for the oblique effect for coarse motion direction discrimination. Interestingly, the oblique effect was larger between horizontal and diagonal than between vertical and diagonal motion directions. In a second experiment, we assessed fine motion direction discrimination for horizontal and vertical motion. It has been suggested that differences in performance strongly depend on motion coherence. Therefore, we tested performance at predetermined motion coherences of 30%, 40%, 50%, 60% and 70%. Unsurprisingly, performance overall increased with increasing motion coherence and angular deviations between control and test stimulus. More importantly, however, we found an advantage for horizontal over vertical fine motion direction discrimination. Noteworthy is the large variability in performance across experimental conditions in both experiments, which highlights the importance of considering individual difference when assessing perceptual phenomena within large groups of naïve participants.
ISSN:00426989
DOI:10.1016/j.visres.2019.03.005