Visual mode switching: Improved general compensation for environmental color changes requires only one exposure per day.

ABSTRACT: When the visual environment changes, vision adapts in order to maintain accurate perception. For repeatedly encountered environmental changes, the visual system may learn to adjust immediately, a process called "visual mode switching." For example, following experience with red glasses, participants report that the glasses' redness fades instantly when they put the glasses on. Here we tested (1) whether once-daily experience suffices for learning to switch visual modes and (2) whether effects of mode switching apply to most stimuli affected by the environmental change. In Experiment 1, 12 participants wore bright red glasses for a single 5-hr period each day for 5 days, and we tested for changes in the perception of unique yellow, which contains neither red nor green. In Experiment 2, we t

SUBMITTER: Li Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9482319 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature