Interocular Differences in Spatial Frequency Influence the Pulfrich Effect
Open Access
- 19 March 2020
- Vol. 4 (1), 20
- https://doi.org/10.3390/vision4010020
Abstract
The Pulfrich effect is a stereo-motion phenomenon. When the two eyes are presented with visual targets moving in fronto-parallel motion at different luminances or contrasts, the perception is of a target moving-in-depth. It is thought that this percept of motion-in-depth occurs because lower luminance or contrast delays the speed of visual processing. Spatial properties of an image such as spatial frequency and size have also been shown to influence the speed of visual processing. In this study, we use a paradigm to measure interocular delay based on the Pulfrich effect where a structure-from-motion defined cylinder, composed of Gabor elements displayed at different interocular phases, rotates in depth. This allows us to measure any relative interocular processing delay while independently manipulating the spatial frequency and size of the micro elements (i.e., Gabor patches). We show that interocular spatial frequency differences, but not interocular size differences of image features, produce interocular processing delays.Keywords
Funding Information
- Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CCI-125686)
- Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (228103, Student award)
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