Subjective control of polystable illusory apparent motion: Is control possible when the stimulus affords countless motion possibilities?

ABSTRACT: We investigate whether a new polystable illusion, illusory apparent motion (IAM), is susceptible to subjective perceptual control as has been shown in other polystable stimuli (e.g., the Necker cube, apparent motion quartets). Previous research has demonstrated that, although IAM shares some properties in common with other polystable stimuli, it also has some unique ones that make it unclear whether it should have similar susceptibility to subjective control. For example, IAM can be perceived in a countless number of directions and motion patterns (e.g., up-down, left-left, contracting-expanding, shear, diagonal). To explore perceptual control of IAM, in experiment 1 (n = 99) we used a motion persistence paradigm where participants are primed with different motion patterns and are instruct

SUBMITTER: Allen AK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9206494 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature