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When S-cones contribute to chromatic global motion processing

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 April 2007

ALEXA I. RUPPERTSBERG ,
SOPHIE M. WUERGER  and
MARCO BERTAMINI
ALEXA I. RUPPERTSBERG
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, University of Liverpool, Eleanor Rathbone Building, Liverpool, United Kingdom
SOPHIE M. WUERGER
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, University of Liverpool, Eleanor Rathbone Building, Liverpool, United Kingdom
MARCO BERTAMINI
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, University of Liverpool, Eleanor Rathbone Building, Liverpool, United Kingdom
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Abstract

There is common consensus now that color-defined motion can be perceived by the human visual system. For global motion integration tasks based on isoluminant random dot kinematograms conflicting evidence exists, whether observers can (Ruppertsberg et al., 2003) or cannot (Bilodeau & Faubert, 1999) extract a common motion direction for stimuli modulated along the isoluminant red-green axis. Here we report conditions, in which S-cones contribute to chromatic global motion processing. When the display included extra-foveal regions, the individual elements were large (∼0.3°) and the displacement was large (∼1°), stimuli modulated along the yellowish-violet axis proved to be effective in a global motion task. The color contrast thresholds for detection for both color axes were well below the contrasts required for global motion integration, and therefore the discrimination-to-detection ratio was >1. We conclude that there is significant S-cone input to chromatic global motion processing and the extraction of global motion is not mediated by the same mechanism as simple detection. Whether the koniocellular or the magnocellular pathway is involved in transmitting S-cone signals is a topic of current debate (Chatterjee & Callaway, 2002).

Keywords

ColorMotionS-conesRandom dot kinematogramIsoluminance

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Visual Neuroscience , Volume 24 , Issue 1 , January 2007 , pp. 1 - 8
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© 2007 Cambridge University Press

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