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Motion perception is an important visual ability of human beings. We can perceive motions not only from real motion but also from apparent motion. Usually, the direction of a perceived apparent motion reflects the real spatial shift between the two successional images, but sometimes the perceived direction is distorted. Two-stroke apparent motion is one of such phenomena, which is induced by two pattern frames from a motion sequence and a blank ISI. We studied on two-stroke apparent motion and found that there were temporal limits to its perception. We measured the brain activity using fMRI when subjects observing the two-stroke apparent motion, real motion and still images. Our fMRI experimental results show that MT/V5 is activated for both the apparent motion and real motion perception, but more activities in the prefrontal/frontal and parietal cortex are observed for the apparent motion perception.
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Zhang, Q., Mogi, K. (2008). Perception of Two-Stroke Apparent Motion and Real Motion. In: Ishikawa, M., Doya, K., Miyamoto, H., Yamakawa, T. (eds) Neural Information Processing. ICONIP 2007. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4984. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-69158-7_116
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