8. Motion Perception

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why is motion important? evolutionary importance for survival + indicates life
what does motion imply about objects? that they are alive -- inanimate objects cant move
what are the functions of motion? breaks camouflage, helps segregate figure from ground + perceptual organisation, allow to actively interact with environment, our direction, collisons, time of, etc.
movement attracts our.. attention
the movement of an object relatuve to the observer provides us.. information about the 3D shape
what does the random dot kinetogram suggest we can't perceive & track edges & contours of one object against another
what's the name for this problem? define it correspondence problem -- motion detection is direct & can't imagine a visual system that matches point for point over time
what are the 5 ways to make light move/types of motion? real motion, apparent motion, induced motion, autokinetic motion, movement after-effects
what is real motion where light physically moves, displaced from one point to another
when is it perceived? (in terms of our eyes/) when the eyes are stationary -- so that the image moves across the retina
what does the movement of an image across the retina elicit again? neurons in the visual system respond & fire away action potentials
what particular part of a stimulus/light's movement is when the receptors respond best? when they move in a particular/preferred direction + tuned to it
how can we change the tune for speed in the receptors in the motion-detection systems? introducing delays or change how widely spaced photoreceptors are in system
whats the aperture problem? where, because we see thru tiny lil windows all the time, there's ambiguity in what's being perceived
whats the solution/result of this? output of all detectors must be combined & integrated at some stage
where does this occur? medial/middle temporal area
which animals were these experiments conducted on? middle temporal area receptors monkeys
what did they find? as correlated movement of random dots increased, so did the firing of neurons in MT
what was further evidence for this? when the neurons in the monkeys' MT were excited with zero visual stimuli, but monkeys pressed the 'up' button
what are the thresholds for detecting real movement? no strict threshold -- its dependent on the background, smth about 1/6th to 1/3rd of a degree of visual angle
what is the perception of velocity affected by? environment & size of it + moving object e.g. a cat has to move twice as fast to appear to be moving at the same speed as a mouse
what are some parts of motoin detection that were difficult to explain? -> no movement on retina, but motion detected -> movement on retina, but motion not detected
which theory helped address this? helmoholtz' outflow theory aka. corollary discharge theory
what is the idea of the theory? if the movement of eye-muscle command from brain (output) & the signal of motion/no-motion from visual image on retina (input) are different = motion perceived
whats an example? when tracking a car, eyes move but retinal signal remains stationary, therefore we perceive movement of the car
state the evidence that supported helmholtz's theory -> afterimages move when we move our eye -> world moves when we passively wobble our eye -> paralysed eyes attempting to move led to apparent movement
what is apparent motion illusion of movement between two lights flashing on & off at certain speeds
whats another name for this movement/effect? stroboscopic movement
table of movements/ speeds and their effects *<30msec: no (simultaneous) *30 - 60 msec: partial movement *60 msec: optimal *60-200msec: beta & phi movement *>200msec: no (successive)
what is the beta & phi phenomenon? beta: movement appears to occur between lights but difficult to perceive moving object phi: perceive an object between
slow apparent movement can be... ambiguous
as distance of lights in apparent motion increases, what must we do to maintain same perception of movement? either the time interval or intensity of flashes must also increase
what is induced movement? where the object isn't moving but the background is
autokinetic movement self-moving [For example, if we turn off all room lights and flash a singular light around — when the surrounding framework of the room is not visible, the small stationary light appears to move, usually in an erratic path]
what famous study was autokinetic motion seen in? Sherif's conformity study
what are motion after-effects when perceiving motion after perceiving motion
example waterfall illusion -- direction of after-effects motion is dependent on motion of stripes across the retina
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