An Integration of Color and Motion Information in Visual Scene Analyses
An Integration of Color and Motion Information in Visual Scene Analyses
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DOI:
10.1177/0956797610393743
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发表时间:
2011-02-01
影响因子:
8.2
通讯作者:
Hoshiyama, Minoru
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作者:
Noguchi, Yasuki;Shimojo, Shinsuke;Hoshiyama, Minoru
To analyze complex scenes efficiently, the human visual system performs perceptual groupings based on various features (e.g., color and motion) of the visual elements in a scene. Although previous studies demonstrated that such groupings can be based on a single feature (e.g., either color or motion information), here we show that the visual system also performs scene analyses based on a combination of two features. We presented subjects with a mixture of red and green dots moving in various directions. Although the pairings between color and motion information were variable across the dots (e.g., one red dot moved upward while another moved rightward), subjects' perceptions of the color-motion pairings were significantly biased when the randomly paired dots were flanked by additional dots with consistent color-motion pairings. These results indicate that the visual system resolves local ambiguities in color-motion pairings using unambiguous pairings in surrounds, demonstrating a new type of scene analysis based on the combination of two featural cues.