ability of vision and other senses to adjust to new conditions of stimulation

Ex: wearing a new pair of glasses

- differentiates between visual space  and kinesthetic space

agreement of what we are seeing and what we are doing with our hands and fingers.

involved with plasticity and the remapping of the relationships between visual and kinesthetic space.

Visual Capture

visual perception dominates kinesthetic (touch) and auditory perception

Ex: ventriloquists- hear voice coming from dummy

with prism over eye, we see a straight object look curved and thereby the object feels curved although it is straight

Sperry's experiment- YES

Experiments with the young - YES

Growth of organism-NO

Visual Capture - NO

Active limb movements are important in realigning the relationship between vision and kinesthetics.

Active motion is crucial for establishing new relationships between vision and motor behavior.

Convenient model of perceptual processing for:

direction constancy and visual stability,

motion sickness,

kinesthetic-visual recalibration,

height vertigo

1) shift direction

2) curve lines

3) change accommodation distance

4) change convergence

5) chromatic aberration

McCullough Effect

( observers presented with green horizontal lines and red vertical lines, they then associated red with horizontal lines and green with vertical lines)

showed evidence that there were color coded contour detectors in the visual system.

long visual aftereffect probably due to a cortical effect.

Evidence:

1) Depth cue recalibration

2) McCullough effect

3) Tilt aftereffect