Footsteps and inchworms: Illusions show that contrast affects apparent speed

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Anstis, S [1 ]
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[1] Univ Calif San Diego, Dept Psychol, La Jolla, CA 92093 USA
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10.1068/p3211
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R77 [眼科学];
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100212 ;
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A horizontal grey bar that drifts horizontally across a surround of black and white vertical stripes appears to stop and start as it crosses each stripe. A dark bar appears to slow down on a black stripe, where its edges have low contrast, and to accelerate on a white stripe, where its edges have high contrast. A light-grey bar appears to slow down on a white stripe and to accelerate on a black stripe. If the background luminances at the leading and trailing edges of the moving bar are the same, the bar appears to change speed, and if they are different the bar appears to change in length. A plaid surround can induce 2-D illusions that modulate the apparent direction, not just the speed, of moving squares. Thus, the motion salience of a moving edge depends critically on its instantaneous contrast against the background.
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