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  Motion Perception at Scotopic Light Levels

Gegenfurtner, K., Mayser, H., & Sharpe, L.(1999). Motion Perception at Scotopic Light Levels (76).

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Gegenfurtner, KR1, Autor           
Mayser, HM, Autor
Sharpe, LT, Autor
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1Department Human Perception, Cognition and Action, Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Max Planck Society, ou_1497797              

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 Zusammenfassung: Although the spatial and temporal properties of rod-mediated vision have been extensively characterized, very little is known about scotopic motion perception. To provide such information, we determined thresholds for the detection and identification of the direction of motion of sinusoidal grating patches moving at speeds from 1 to 32 deg/s, under scotopic light levels, in four different types of observers: three normals, a rod monochromat (who lacks all cone vision), an S-cone monochromat (who lacks M- and L-cone vision), and four deuteranopes (who lack M-cone vision). The deuteranopes, whose motion perception does not differ from that of normals, allowed us to measure rod and L-cone thresholds under silent substitution conditions and to directly compare the perceived velocity for moving stimuli detected by either rod or cone vision at the same light level. We find, for rod as for cone vision, that the direction of motion can be reliably identified very near to detection threshold. In contrast, the perceived velocity of rod-mediated stimuli is reduced by about 20 relative to cone-mediated stimuli at temporal frequencies below 4 Hz and at all intensity levels investigated (0.92 to -1.12 log cd m-2). Most likely the difference in velocity perception is distal in origin because rod and cone signals converge in the retina and further processing of their combined signals in the visual cortex is presumably identical. To account for the difference, we propose a model of velocity, in which the greater temporal averaging of rod signals in the retina leads to an attenuation of the motion signal in the detectors tuned to high velocities.

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 Datum: 1999-12
 Publikationsstatus: Erschienen
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 Identifikatoren: Reportnr.: 76
BibTex Citekey: 1541
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