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VISION RESEARCH
Volume 179, Issue -, Pages 75-84Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2020.11.008
Keywords
Skew distortions; Curveball; Illusion; Adaptation; Progressive lenses; Optic flow
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Funding
- European Grant PLATYPUS, a Marie Sklodowska-Curie RISE initiative [734227]
- University of Tubingen
- Marie Curie Actions (MSCA) [734227] Funding Source: Marie Curie Actions (MSCA)
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Progressive addition lenses introduce distortions in the peripheral visual field. This study investigates how our peripheral visual field adapts to complex distortions. The environment can tune perceived object trajectories and adaptation to geometrical distortions affects the double-drift illusion.
Progressive addition lenses introduce distortions in the peripheral visual field that alter both form and motion perception. Here we seek to understand how our peripheral visual field adapts to complex distortions. The adaptation was induced across the visual field by geometrically skewed image sequences, and aftereffects were measured via changes in perception of the double-drift illusion. The double-drift or curveball stimulus contains both local and object motion. Therefore, the aftereffects induced by geometrical distortions might be indicative of how this adaptation interacts with the local and object motion signals. In the absence of the local motion components, the adaptation to skewness modified the perceived trajectory of object motion in the opposite direction of the adaptation stimulus skew. This effect demonstrates that the environment can also tune perceived object trajectories. Testing with the full double-drift stimulus, adaptation to a skew in the opposite direction to the local motion component induced a change in perception, reducing the illusion magnitude (when the stimulus was presented on the right side of the screen. A non-statistically significant shift, when stimuli were on the left side). However, adaptation to the other orientation resulted in no change in the strength of the double-drift illusion (for both stimuli locations). Thus, it seems that the adaptor's orientation and the motion statistics of the stimulus jointly define the perception of the measured aftereffect. In conclusion, not only size, contrast or drifting speed affects the double-drift illusion, but also adaptation to image distortions.
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