Riga Anna, Anstis Stuart, Thornton Ian M, Cavanagh Patrick
Department of Cognitive Science, University of Malta, Msida, Malta.
Department of Psychology, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA.
J Vis. 2025 May 1;25(6):9. doi: 10.1167/jov.25.6.9.
In 1992, Randolph Blake, in collaboration with Robert Cormack and Eric Hiris, reported a strong deviation in perceived direction for a target moving over an oblique, static grating. Here we follow up on this effect, subsequently called the furrow illusion, to determine its origin. We find, unlike Cormack et al., that it is influenced by the luminance of the target and that it does not survive smooth pursuit of a moving fixation that stabilizes the target on the retina. We also introduce an inverted version of the furrow stimulus with the static grating visible only within the moving target rather than only around it. This "peep-hole" furrow stimulus shows a similar deviation in its direction and is quite similar to the well-known double-drift stimulus (Lisi & Cavanagh, 2015). Like the double-drift but unlike the furrow stimulus, its illusory direction persists when tracking a fixation that moves in tandem with the target. The main source for the illusion in both cases appears to be the terminators where the grating's bars meet the target contour. These terminators move laterally along the target's contour as the target moves vertically and the combination of these two directions creates the illusory oblique motion. However, the loss of the illusion for the tracked furrow stimulus suggests either a contribution from negative afterimages within the target or from induced motion in this case.
1992年,伦道夫·布莱克与罗伯特·科马克和埃里克·希里斯合作,报告了一个目标在倾斜的静态光栅上移动时,在感知方向上出现的强烈偏差。在此,我们对这一后来被称为沟纹错觉的效应进行跟进,以确定其起源。我们发现,与科马克等人的研究不同,它受目标亮度的影响,并且在对移动的注视点进行平稳追踪从而使目标在视网膜上稳定下来时,这种错觉就会消失。我们还引入了一种沟纹刺激的倒置版本,其中静态光栅仅在移动目标内部可见,而不是仅在其周围可见。这种“窥视孔”沟纹刺激在其方向上表现出类似的偏差,并且与著名的双漂移刺激(利西和卡瓦纳,2015年)非常相似。与双漂移刺激一样但与沟纹刺激不同的是,当追踪与目标同步移动的注视点时,其错觉方向会持续存在。这两种情况下错觉的主要来源似乎都是光栅条纹与目标轮廓相交处的终端。随着目标垂直移动,这些终端沿着目标轮廓横向移动,这两个方向的组合产生了虚幻的倾斜运动。然而,追踪的沟纹刺激错觉的消失表明,在这种情况下,要么是目标内负后像的作用,要么是诱导运动的作用。