Journal of Vision - Flicker flutter: Is an illusory event as good as the real thing?, by Berger, Martelli, & Pelli

Volume 3, Number 6, Article 1, Pages 406-412

doi:10.1167/3.6.1

http://journalofvision.org/3/6/1/

ISSN 1534-7362

Flicker flutter: Is an illusory event as good as the real thing?

Tracey D. Berger	Psychology and Neural Science, New York University, New York, NY, USA
Marialuisa Martelli	Psychology and Neural Science, New York University, New York, NY, USA
Denis G. Pelli	Psychology and Neural Science, New York University, New York, NY, USA

Abstract

Verghese and Stone (1995) showed that reducing the perceived number of objects by grouping also reduces objective performance. Shams, Kamitani, and Shimojo (2000) showed that a single flash accompanied by multiple beeps appears to flash more than once. We show that objective orientation-discrimination performance depends solely on the perceived number of flashes, independent of the actual number of beeps and flashes. Thus the unit of perceptual analysis seems to be a perceived event, independent of how it is induced.

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History

Received August 16, 2002; published July 17, 2003

Citation

Berger, T. D., Martelli, M., & Pelli, D. G. (2003). Flicker flutter: Is an illusory event as good as the real thing? Journal of Vision, 3(6):1, 406-412, http://journalofvision.org/3/6/1/, doi:10.1167/3.6.1.

Keywords

cross modal interaction, vision, audition, illusion, event perception, object recognition, auditory driving

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