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Visual Neuroscience

Table of Contents - 1993 - Volume 10, Issue 04  

Research Articles

Reduction of a pattern-induced motion aftereffect by binocular rivalry suggests the involvement of extrastriate mechanisms

Rick Van Der Zwana1, Peter Wenderotha1 and David Alaisa1

a1 Department of Psychology, University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Abstract

Previous research suggests that plaid-induced motion aftereffects (MAEs) involve extrastriate mechanisms (Wenderoth et al., 1988). There is evidence also that binocular rivalry occurs beyond VI and that it disrupts the processing of MAEs which are believed to be based upon extrastriate mechanisms (e.g. the spiral MAE) but not MAEs, such as linear MAE induced by a drifting grating, which are thought to arise in striate cortex (Wiesenfelder & Blake, 1990). The logical inference is that binocular rivalry during drifting plaid-induced adaptation should reduce the MAEs which result. We report experiments which confirm this prediction.

(Received October 05 1992)

(Accepted December 21 1992)

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Footnotes

Reprint requests to: Peter Wenderoth, Reader, Department of Psychology, University of Sydney, Sydney, N.S.W., Australia, 2006.