Enhanced motion during gradual changes in luminance polarity

Stuart Anstis

doi:10.47691/joi.v2.5594

Stuart Anstis Department of Psychology, UC San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA

DOI: https://doi.org/10.47691/joi.v2.5594

Keywords: motion, reverse-phi, peripheral vision

Abstract

A pattern that gradually reverses its polarity as it moves can appear to move farther and faster than it really does. I shall call this new effect ‘enhanced motion’, since it accentuates the amplitude and briskness of motion as opposed to reverse phi, in which polarity changes reverse the perceived direction of a moving object.

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