Transformation of the Visual Afterimage Under Subject’s Eye and Body Movements and the Visual Field Constancy Mechanisms

• Published in: Perception (London) Vol. 44; no. 8-9; pp. 973 - 985
• Main Authors: Zenkin, Gary M., Petrov, Alexander P.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: London, England SAGE Publications 01.08.2015
• Subjects: Afterimage - physiology; Attention - physiology; Eye Movements - physiology; Fixation, Ocular - physiology; Head Movements - physiology; Humans; Photic Stimulation; Psychophysics; Retina - physiology; Saccades - physiology; Visual Fields - physiology; Visual Perception - physiology; eye movements; head tilt; visual afterimage; spatial constancy

Two types of positive afterimages differing in their structural complexity—called poor and rich—were used to investigate the visual field constancy mechanisms during eye and head movements. In the case of a poor afterimage, consistent with Emmert’s law, every eye and head movement caused the afterim...