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Subjects were seated inside a full-field optokinetic cylinder which was accelerated with values between. 1 and 100 deg/sec2. Subjects indicated when motion was first detected. Latency for onset of self-motion shows a minimum of around 5 deg/sec2 and increases for lower and faster accelerations of the visual surround. In the low acceleration range, up to 5 deg/sec2, all movement is perceived as circular vection, that is, self-rotation. With higher accelerations, motion of the visual surround is perceived initially; over seconds, this gradually transforms to circular vection. Velocity estimation during low acceleration is better than during comparable vestibular acceleration. During subject rotation in the light, that is, when both the visual and vestibular inputs combine to generate a velocity signal, detection of motion has the shortest latency and represents actual velocity over a wider range than it does with each stimulus alone.
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Melcher, G.A., Henn, V. The latency of circular vection during different accelerations of the optokinetic stimulus. Perception & Psychophysics 30, 552–556 (1981). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03202009
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