dissociable perceptual effects of visual adaptation不爱交际的知觉视觉适应气候变化的影响.pdfVIP

Dissociable Perceptual Effects of Visual Adaptation ¨ 1,2 1,3 1,4 1 Kai-Markus Muller , Frieder Schillinger , David H. Do , David A. Leopold * 1 Unit on Cognitive Neurophysiology and Imaging, Laboratory of Neuropsychology, National Institute of Mental Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America, ¨ ¨ ¨ 2 International Max-Planck Research School, Tubingen, Germany, 3 Department of Psychology, University of Tubingen, Tubingen, Germany, 4 Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America Abstract Neurons in the visual cortex are responsive to the presentation of oriented and curved line segments, which are thought to act as primitives for the visual processing of shapes and objects. Prolonged adaptation to such stimuli gives rise to two related perceptual effects: a slow change in the appearance of the adapting stimulus (perceptual drift), and the distortion of subsequently presented test stimuli (adaptational aftereffects). Here we used a psychophysical nulling technique to dissociate and quantify these two classical observations in order to examine their underlying mechanisms and their relationship to one another. In agreement with previous work, we found that during adaptation horizontal and vertical straight lines serve as attractors for perceived orientation and curvature. However, the rate of perceptual drift for different stimuli was not predictive of the corresponding aftereffect magnitudes, indicating that the two perceptual effects are governed by distinct neural processes