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Two experiments investigated the properties of visual persistence as functions of spatial frequency, stimulus duration, and pattern-specific adaptation. Experiment 1 demonstrated that the perceived duration of sine-wave gratings presented for 50 msec increased from 250 to 500 msec as spatial frequency ranged from .4 to 6.4 cycles per degree of visual angle. Similarly, visual persistence for single bars increased as their widths decreased. Experiment 2 found that adaptation to a specific spatial frequency reduced the perceived duration of gratings that were close to the adaptation value in spatial frequency.
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These experiments were run while G. E. Meyer was at the Division of Neurobiology, State University of New York at Buffalo School of Medicine, and W. M. Maguire was at the Department of Psychology, State University of New York at Buffalo. G. E. Meyer and W. M. Maguire were supported by NEI Grant 5T32 EY07019-01.
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Meyer, G.E., Maguire, W.M. The effects of bar width and spatial frequency-specific adaptation on visual persistence. Bull. Psychon. Soc. 14, 64–66 (1979). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03329401
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