Higher resolution stimulus facilitates depth perception: MT+ plays a significant role in monocular depth perception.

ABSTRACT: Today, we human beings are facing with high-quality virtual world of a completely new nature. For example, we have a digital display consisting of a high enough resolution that we cannot distinguish from the real world. However, little is known how such high-quality representation contributes to the sense of realness, especially to depth perception. What is the neural mechanism of processing such fine but virtual representation? Here, we psychophysically and physiologically examined the relationship between stimulus resolution and depth perception, with using luminance-contrast (shading) as a monocular depth cue. As a result, we found that a higher resolution stimulus facilitates depth perception even when the stimulus resolution difference is undetectable. This finding is against the trad

SUBMITTER: Tsushima Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4202214 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature