Neural Model for the Influence of Shading on the Multistability of the Perception of Body Motion

Leonid Fedorov, Joris Vangeneugden, Martin Giese

2016

Abstract

Body motion perception from impoverished stimuli shows interesting dynamic properties, such as multistability and spontaneous perceptual switching. Psychophysical experiments show that such multistability disappears when the stimulus includes also shading cues along the body surface. Classical neural models for body motion perception have not addressed perceptual multistability. We present an extension of a classical neurodynamic model for biological and body motion perception that accounts for perceptual switching, and its dependence on shading cues on the body surface. We demonstrate that a set of psychophysical observations can be accounted for in a unifying manner by a hierarchical neural model for body motion processing that includes an additional shading pathway, which processes luminance gradients within the individual body segments. The goal of our model is to explain psychophysics and neural mechanism in the brain.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Fedorov L., Vangeneugden J. and Giese M. (2016). Neural Model for the Influence of Shading on the Multistability of the Perception of Body Motion . In Proceedings of the 8th International Joint Conference on Computational Intelligence - Volume 3: NCTA, (IJCCI 2016) ISBN 978-989-758-201-1, pages 69-76. DOI: 10.5220/0006054000690076

in Bibtex Style

@conference{ncta16,
author={Leonid Fedorov and Joris Vangeneugden and Martin Giese},
title={Neural Model for the Influence of Shading on the Multistability of the Perception of Body Motion},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 8th International Joint Conference on Computational Intelligence - Volume 3: NCTA, (IJCCI 2016)},
year={2016},
pages={69-76},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0006054000690076},
isbn={978-989-758-201-1},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 8th International Joint Conference on Computational Intelligence - Volume 3: NCTA, (IJCCI 2016)
TI - Neural Model for the Influence of Shading on the Multistability of the Perception of Body Motion
SN - 978-989-758-201-1
AU - Fedorov L.
AU - Vangeneugden J.
AU - Giese M.
PY - 2016
SP - 69
EP - 76
DO - 10.5220/0006054000690076