TY  - GEN
N1  - The copyright holder for this preprint is the author/funder, who has granted bioRxiv a license to display the preprint in perpetuity. It is made available under a CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 International license. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
Y1  - 2018/03/08/
AV  - public
TI  - The illusion of uniformity does not depend on low-level vision: evidence from sensory adaptation
A1  - Suárez-Pinilla, M
A1  - Seth, A
A1  - Roseboom, W
CY  - Cold Spring Harbor, Long Island, NY, USA
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1101/278721
PB  - bioRxiv
N2  - Visual experience appears richly detailed despite the poor resolution of the majority of the visual field, thanks to foveal-peripheral integration. The recently described Uniformity Illusion (UI), in which peripheral elements of a pattern seem to take on the properties of foveal elements, may shed light on this integration. We examined the basis of UI by generating adaptation to a pattern of Gabors suitable for producing UI on orientation. After removing the pattern, participants reported the tilt of a single peripheral Gabor. The tilt after-effect (TAE) followed the physical adapting orientation rather than the global orientation perceived under UI, even when the illusion had been reported for a long time. Conversely, a control experiment replacing illusory for physical uniformity for the same durations did produce an after-effect to the global orientation. Our results indicate that the UI is not associated with changes in sensory encoding, but likely depends on high-level processes.
ID  - discovery10070492
ER  -