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Changing objects lead to briefly flashed ones

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posted on 2023-06-07, 18:35 authored by Bhavin R Sheth, Romi Nijhawan, Shinsuke Shimojo
Continuous, predictable events and spontaneous events may coincide in the visual environment. For a continuously moving object, the brain compensates for delays in transmission between a retinal event and neural responses in higher visual areas. Here we show that it similarly compensated for other smoothly changing features. A disk was flashed briefly during the presentation of another disk of continuously changing color, and observers compared the colors of the disks at the moment of flash. We also tested luminance, spatial frequency and pattern entropy; for all features, the continuously changing item led the flashed item in feature space. Thus the visual system's ability to compensate for delays in information about a continuously changing stimulus may extend to all features. We propose a model based on backward masking and priming to explain the phenomenon.

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  • Published

Journal

Nature Neuroscience

ISSN

1097-6256

Publisher

Nature Publishing Group

Volume

3

Page range

489-495

ISBN

1097-6256

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  • Psychology Publications

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  • Yes

Legacy Posted Date

2012-02-06

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