Motion silencing illusion

[7][8] In the same study, Suchow and Alvarez required participants to complete a fixation-tracking task in order to assess whether Conversely, the illusory effect can be eliminated by moving the eye to follow the movement of the image or monitoring its changing properties specifically.

Since its discovery, the motion silencing phenomenon first tested by Suchow & Alvarez has been replicated in an attempt to further describe the nature of the effect and the mechanisms behind it [18][19][20][21]).

Eccentricity, which is a mathematical constant conveyed in the form of a ratio and essentially describes to what degree a conic section deviates from being circular.

One such proposition is that of temporal freezing, which suggests that the observer retains the original image and its features without updating it as change occurs.

[14] Suchow and Alvarez [1] conducted an experiment in order to identify which theory best explained the motion silencing effect they had uncovered.

They based their experiment on Hollingworth and Henderson's task where participants are required to view a picture of a room where the camera angle shifted incrementally.

[14] This finding was replicated by Suchow and Alvarez in their adapted study and implicit updating in the currently accepted explanation for motion silencing.

One study was conducted concerning whether silencing is exclusively caused by motion or whether it can be produced by other coherent visual changes such as in color or size.

[8] An infant's typical preference for changing colors was not observed once the rings of dots was sent into motion (following the stimuli used in Suchow and Alvarez's experiments [1]).

Adults were included in the experiment for comparison purposes and they concluded that the mechanisms involved in the motion silencing effect operate for children as young as 4 months old also.