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Visual Aftereffects, Models of

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Adaptation; Illusions

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Visual aftereffects are systematic changes in perception of a visual stimulus after adaptation to a previous stimulus. For instance, the tilt aftereffect affects the perception of tilted lines – after staring at an oriented line, slightly rotated lines appear to be much more different in orientation. Similar effects occur for a very wide variety of stimuli and have prompted a range of computational explanations primarily focusing on changes in responsiveness of feature-selective neurons in the visual cortex. Aftereffects are one type of visual illusion, which are discussed further in the entry “Visual Aftereffects, Models of” of this encyclopedia.

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Visual aftereffects have been described for an extremely wide range of visual stimuli in a variety of contexts. A well-studied example is the motion aftereffect, which was originally reported (somewhat ambiguously) by Aristotle and has been independently rediscovered many times...

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  1. Institute for Adaptive and Neural Computation, School of Informatics, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK

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Bednar, J.A. (2014). Visual Aftereffects, Models of. In: Jaeger, D., Jung, R. (eds) Encyclopedia of Computational Neuroscience. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-7320-6_730-1

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