Motion adaptation in chromatic motion-onset visual evoked potentials

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The aim of this study was to investigate the influence of motion adaptation on visual evoked potentials (VEPs) elicited by the onset of isoluminant chromatic motion. VEPs were recorded from the occipital cortex of human subjects using a sinusoidal grating stimulus of one cycle per degree which moved at either a velocity of 2 or 10°/s and subtended a field of 7° with a mean luminance of 30 cdm-2. In the first experiment the effects of adaptation were investigated via the manipulation of the stimulus duty cycle which was varied between 11-90%. The results showed a significant (p < 0.001) reduction in the N2-P2 amplitude of the chromatic response. In contrast, P1-N2 amplitude was not significantly affected by motion adaptation. Subsequent experiments demonstrated that the chromatic motion onset VEP was attenuated not only following adaptation to isoluminant chromatic motion, but also to luminance motion as well. These results indicate that the chromatic motion onset VEP is just as susceptible as its luminance counterpart to motion after effects (MAEs) and as a result it is highly likely that it is a motion specific response. Furthermore, the fact that the VEP shows that there are cross-adaptation effects between motion defined by change in colour and by change in luminance, suggests that the two types of motion stimuli have inputs into a common motion mechanism.

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McKeefry, D. J. (2001). Motion adaptation in chromatic motion-onset visual evoked potentials. Documenta Ophthalmologica, 103(3), 229–251. https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1013037101814

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