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O'Toole B I, 1979, "Exposure-time and spatial-frequency effects in the tilt illusion" Perception 8(5) 557 – 564
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Exposure-time and spatial-frequency effects in the tilt illusion

Brian I O'Toole

Received 5 June 1978, in revised form 27 June 1979

Abstract. The exposure durations of a vertical test line and a tilted inducing grating were varied and the tilt illusion thus generated was found to change as a function of this variation. Significant direct effects (acute-angle expansion) and indirect effects (acute-angle contraction) were found to occur at times consistent with Andrews's estimate of the time course of inhibition in the visual system when the inducing grating had a spatial frequency of 10 cycles deg^-1. However, a 2.71 cycles deg^-1 grating gave significant effects at exposure durations of 10 as well as 1000 ms, while in a further experiment a 10.91 cycles deg^-1 grating gave significant effects at 1000 ms only. These results seem to suggest that orientation interactions thought to be due to inhibition (direct effect) and disinhibition (indirect effect) may occur within both sustained and transient channels with concomitant differences in time constants.

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