2012 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
Activities of the visual system during eye blinks
Project/Area Number |
22653092
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Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research
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Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
Research Field |
Experimental psychology
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Research Institution | Kyushu University |
Principal Investigator |
ITO Hiroyuki 九州大学, 芸術工学研究院, 准教授 (40243977)
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Project Period (FY) |
2010 – 2012
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Keywords | 瞬目 / 運動知覚 / 仮現運動 |
Research Abstract |
No visual information is available during eye blinks. However, we usually do not notice the break of visual inputs. Employing a newly found motion illusion, the suppression mechanism was investigated. While a disc with a random texture was rotating, a sudden change of the texture or a short break of the presentation induced a reversed apparent motion illusion. Because eye blinks also induced the same illusion, preservation of visual object perception during eye blinks were partly accomplished by apparent motion between images before and after eye blinks
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