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Three-systems theory of human visual motion perception: review and update

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Lu and Sperling [Vision Res. 35, 2697 (1995)] proposed that human visual motion perception is served by three separate motion systems: a first-order system that responds to moving luminance patterns, a second-order system that responds to moving modulations of feature types—stimuli in which the expected luminance is the same everywhere but an area of higher contrast or of flicker moves, and a third-order system that computes the motion of marked locations in a “salience map,” that is, a neural representation of visual space in which the locations of important visual features (“figure”) are marked and “ground” is unmarked. Subsequently, there have been some strongly confirmatory reports: different gain-control mechanisms for first- and second-order motion, selective impairment of first- versus second- and/or third-order motion by different brain injuries, and the classification of new third-order motions, e.g., isoluminant chromatic motion. Various procedures have successfully discriminated between second- and third-order motion (when first-order motion is excluded): dual tasks, second-order reversed phi, motion competition, and selective adaptation. Meanwhile, eight apparent contradictions to the three-systems theory have been proposed. A review and reanalysis here of the new evidence, pro and con, resolves the challenges and yields a more clearly defined and significantly strengthened theory.

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Zhong-Lin Lu and George Sperling, "Three systems theory of human visual motion perception: review and update: errata," J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 19, 413-413 (2002)
https://opg.optica.org/josaa/abstract.cfm?uri=josaa-19-2-413

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