Friday, March 2, 2012

370: Optic Flow Pt2

THE OCCLUSION HEURISTIC

Researchers wanted to know how does the visual system interpret ambiguous apparent motion situations?  We assume ecological plausibility, or that things don't disappear or fuse but that two things turning into one thing probably means that one of them is just covering the other.

IMPLIED MOTION

Still pictures that are of an object that would be moving if it were real stimulate the MT more than just still images of an object at rest.  

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