Journal of Vision - Perceptual and physiological evidence for a role for early visual areas in motion-induced blindness, by Libedinsky, Savage, & Livingstone

Volume 9, Number 1, Article 14, Pages 1-10

doi:10.1167/9.1.14

http://journalofvision.org/9/1/14/

ISSN 1534-7362

Perceptual and physiological evidence for a role for early visual areas in motion-induced blindness

Camilo Libedinsky	Department of Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
Tristram Savage	Department of Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
Margaret Livingstone	Department of Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA

Abstract

Visual disappearance illusions, such as motion-induced blindness, are commonly used to study the neural correlates of visual perception. In such illusions a salient visual target becomes perceptually invisible. Previous studies are inconsistent regarding the role of early visual areas in these illusions. Here we provide physiological and psychophysical evidence suggesting a role for early visual areas in generating motion-induced blindness, and we provide a conceptual model by which different brain areas might contribute to the perceptual disappearance in this illusion.

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Received February 13, 2008; published January 14, 2009

Citation

Libedinsky, C., Savage, T., & Livingstone, M. (2009). Perceptual and physiological evidence for a role for early visual areas in motion-induced blindness. Journal of Vision, 9(1):14, 1-10, http://journalofvision.org/9/1/14/, doi:10.1167/9.1.14.

Keywords

motion-induced blindness, perception, V1, physiology, illusion, bistable

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