Murakami, I. &
Shimojo, S. (1993).
Motion capture changes to induced motion at higher luminance contrasts, smaller eccentricities, and larger inducer sizes.
Vision Research, 33, 2091-2107.
In the stimulus configuration for "motion capture" phenomenon,
we varied luminance contrast of the center disk (target),
eccentricity and stimulus size. The subjects had to judge the
direction of perceived target motion. We found that motion
capture changed to induced motion (the direction of illusory
motion was reversed) at smaller eccentricities and larger
stimulus sizes. At intermediate eccentricities, motion capture
changed to induced motion with increasing luminance contrast of
the target. By using magnitude estimation, we also found that
even a luminance-defined target was captured ("homochromatic
motion capture") and that a moving target was captured by a
stationary inducer ("position capture"). Both motion and position
capture effects were commonly observed at lower luminance
contrasts of the target, larger eccentricities and smaller sizes.
From these results, we propose a model of center-surround
antagonistic motion contrast detectors in motion processing.