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Non-retinotopic motion: Efference copies and predictability

Lauffs, Marc M.
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Öğmen, Haluk
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Herzog, Michael H.  
2015
Perception
38th European Conference on Visual Perception (ECVP)

Perception is usually non-retinotopic. For example, a reflector on the wheel of a bicycle is perceived to rotate on a circular orbit, while its retinotopic motion is cycloidal. To investigate non-retinotopic motion perception, we used the Ternus-Pikler display. Two disks are repeatedly flashed on a computer screen. A dot moves linearly up-down in the left disk and left-right in the right disk (retinotopic percept). If a third disk is added alternatingly to the left and right, the three disks form a group moving predictably back and forth horizontally. The dot in the central disk now appears to move on a circular orbit (non-retinotopic percept), because the brain subtracts the horizontal group motion from the up-down and left-right motion. Here, we show that predictability is not necessary to compute non-retinotopic motion. In experiment 1, the three disks moved randomly in any direction. In experiment 2, we additionally varied the shape and contrast polarity of the stimuli from frame to frame. In both cases, strong non-retinotopic rotation was perceived. Hence, the visual system can flexibly solve the non-retinotopic motion correspondence problem, even when the retinotopic reference motion is unpredictable and no efference copy-like signals can be used.

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conference paper
DOI
10.1177/0301006615598674
Web of Science ID

WOS:000362287800382

Author(s)
Lauffs, Marc M.
Öğmen, Haluk
Herzog, Michael H.  
Date Issued

2015

Publisher

Sage Publications Ltd

Publisher place

London

Published in
Perception
Total of pages

1

Volume

44

Issue

Suppl. 1

Start page

192

Subjects

non-retinotopic processing

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motion perception

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grouping

Note

This work was supported by grant 153001, “Basics of visual processing: From retinotopic encoding to non-retinotopic representations”, of the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF).

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Event nameEvent placeEvent date
38th European Conference on Visual Perception (ECVP)

Liverpool, UK

August 23-27, 2015

Available on Infoscience
September 17, 2015
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https://infoscience.epfl.ch/handle/20.500.14299/117967
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