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Transition from monocular motion perception to dichoptic motion perception as a function of the stimulus duration

Experimental Brain Research volume 190, pages 499–502 (2008)Cite this article

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We have recently developed a new motion display in which the monocular and dichoptic motion components move in opposite directions (Hayashi et al. 2007). In the present paper, we estimated the difference between the integration times required to detect the dichoptic motion and monocular motion by changing the duration of the stimulus. The results showed that monocular motion perception becomes more dominant as the stimulus duration becomes shorter, indicating that the detection of dichoptic motion is relatively slow process that requires a longer integration time compared with the process used to detect monocular motion.

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This work was supported by JSPS16GS0312.

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  1. Department of Integrative Brain Science, Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University, Yoshida-Konoe-cho, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto, Kyoto, 606-8501, Japan

    Ryusuke Hayashi & Kenji Kawano

  2. Laboratory for Integrative Neural Systems, RIKEN Brain Science Institute, 2-1 Hirosawa, Wako, Saitama, 351-0198, Japan

    Ryusuke Hayashi

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Hayashi, R., Kawano, K. Transition from monocular motion perception to dichoptic motion perception as a function of the stimulus duration. Exp Brain Res 190, 499–502 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00221-008-1542-2

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Keywords

  • Dichoptic motion
  • Motion perception
  • Duration threshold
  • Binocular vision
  • Monocular vision