Adaptation to Flicker and Spatial Frequency, with Sae Kaneko & Debbie Giaschi

[quicktime width=”500″ height=”400″]http://quote.ucsd.edu/anstislab/files/2012/11/adaptflicker.mov[/quicktime]

Run the movie & fixate the red cross. Both gratings are the same, but following adaptation to spatially uniform flicker, the upper grating looks apparently finer. Reason: Adaptation of transient pathways that are tuned to high temporal and low spatial frequency.