Sustained attention is not necessary for velocity adaptation.

Author(s)
Morgan, M.
Year
Abstract

Prolonged adaptation to a stimulus, such as a drifting grating, lowers sensitivity for detecting similar stimuli, and changes their appearance, for example, making gratings of the same orientation appear of lower contrast and move more slowly. It has been suggested that adaptation is increased by sustained attention to the adapting stimulus and is decreased by distracting attention with a competing task. This paper describes a novel 2AFC (spatial) measure of adaptation in which adaptation and bias are carefully distinguished by the random interleaving of different test conditions. The experiment revealed significant adaptation of perceived velocity, but no effect of attentional distraction. (Author/publisher)

Publication

Library number
20131481 ST [electronic version only]
Source

Journal of Vision, Vol. 13 (2013), No. 8 (July 31), article 26, 11 p., 36 ref.

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