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Motion: the long and short of it

P Cavanagh et al. Spat Vis. 1989.

Abstract

Several authors have proposed that motion is analyzed by two separate processes: short-range and long-range. We claim that the differences between short-range and long-range motion phenomena are a direct consequence of the stimuli used in the two paradigms and are not evidence for the existence of two qualitatively different motion processes. We propose that a single style of motion analysis, similar to the well known Reichardt and Marr-Ullman motion detectors, underlies all motion phenomena. Although there are different detectors of this type specialized for different visual attributes (namely first-order and second-order stimuli), they all share the same mode of operation. We review the studies of second-order motion stimuli to show that they share the basic phenomena observed for first-order stimuli. The similarity across stimulus types suggests, not parallel streams of motion extraction, one short-range and passive and the other long-range and intelligent, but a concatenation of a common mode of initial motion extraction followed by a general inference process.

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• Comments on Cavanagh and Mather (1989): coming up short (and long).

  Petersik JT. Petersik JT. Spat Vis. 1991;5(4):291-301. doi: 10.1163/156856891x00056. Spat Vis. 1991. PMID: 1751429

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