Moving biological stimuli (not just faces) amplify inversion effect sizes

Aquaporin 2: not just for moving water.

Aquaporin 2 (AQP2) is widely recognized for its role in vasopressin-stimulated water transport across the collecting duct and hence in the production of concentrated urine. AQP2 is primarily expressed in the apical plasma membrane and subapical vesicles of the collecting duct, although it has also been detected in the basolateral plasma membrane. In response to vasopressin binding to the V2-vas...

A flanker effect for moving visual stimuli

Visual motion perception is essential for appropriate behavior in a dynamic visual world. It is influenced by voluntary attention towards or away from moving objects as well as by the capture of automatic attention by salient stimuli. Both kinds of attention play a major role in the Eriksen Flanker Task (EFT),where a central stimulus has to be identified in the presence of flanking distractors....

A Simon effect with stationary moving stimuli.

To clarify whether motion information per se has a separable influence on action control, the authors investigated whether irrelevant direction of motion of stimuli whose overall position was constant over time would affect manual left-right responses (i.e., reveal a motion-based Simon effect). In Experiments 1 and 2, significant Simon effects were obtained for sine-wave gratings moving in a st...

Moving Stimuli Facilitate Synchronization But Not Temporal Perception

Recent studies have shown that a moving visual stimulus (e.g., a bouncing ball) facilitates synchronization compared to a static stimulus (e.g., a flashing light), and that it can even be as effective as an auditory beep. We asked a group of participants to perform different tasks with four stimulus types: beeps, siren-like sounds, visual flashes (static) and bouncing balls. First, participants...

The effect of inversion on infant attention disengagement from faces