Abstract
Visual motion prediction is the ability of visual system to predict spatial and temporal properties of moving stimuli (e.g. where and when a moving ball will be). Recent studies have suggested that one way of achieving visual prediction is to predict forward spatial pattern based on past input motion information. Here, four tasks related to spatial perception changes caused by motion were studied together within the framework of visual prediction: Motion Induced Spatial Conflict (MISC), the Time Course of the De Valois Effect (TCDVE), Motion Adaptation Induced Spatial Shift (MAISS), and a Smooth Motion Threshold (SMT) task. We used correlation analysis to investigate whether any performance relationship could be found among those tasks. The result showed that there was a significant moderate positive relationship (Spearman’s r = 0.5, p = 0.01) between performance on the MISC and TCDVE tasks. There was no significant relationship between any other pair of tasks. This result suggested that only MISC and TCDVE among four tasks can be clustered together, implying a common mechanism of visual prediction.