Open AccessTemporal restriction in apparent motion of two objects by presenting multipartite subframes
Author(s) -
Yamazaki Reiko
Publication year - 1998
Publication title -
japanese psychological research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.392
H-Index - 30
eISSN - 1468-5884
pISSN - 0021-5368
DOI - 10.1111/1468-5884.00077
Subject(s) - subframe , multipartite , perception , stimulus (psychology) , motion (physics) , computer science , artificial intelligence , computer vision , communication , mathematics , psychology , cognitive psychology , neuroscience , telecommunications , telecommunications link , physics , quantum mechanics , quantum entanglement , quantum
Two experiments tested whether proper perception of motion can be realized with a multipartite subframe stimulus. In order to elucidate the constructive processes of visual motion, two motion stimuli were used which differed according to their hierarchical levels of reference. It was found that: (a) stable motion was perceived so long as the temporal interval between the neighboring frames comprising several subframes was held between 30 and 120 ms; (b) visual unification of subframes was properly achieved independently of the number of subframes insofar as the temporal constraint mentioned above was satisfied; (c) when stimuli consisted of two motions of different hierarchical level of reference, perception of the higher‐level motion required the prior perception of the lower‐level motion.