Talk:Motion aftereffect

This article should briefly mention dizzyness (ie. spinning round quickly), as that is the easiest way to observe this effect.

Is dizziness really the same thing? The case of dizziness involves the vestibular system and your eyes rotating involuntarily (oculovestibular reflex, the one that lets you turn your head and keep eyes fixated is tricked by continued flow of liquid in inner ear), does it not?


 * Dizziness is different from the motion aftereffect. The MAE does not occur with whole-field motion; there needs to be relative motion. I will delete the offending paragraph. Robert P. O&#39;Shea 07:38, 26 April 2007 (UTC)


 * Agreed - completely different!Lionfish0 (talk) 15:25, 31 October 2012 (UTC)


 * When I'm driving for a while and come to a stop light, and it kind of looks like I'm actually moving backwards for a moment. Is that related to this? Autumn Wind (talk) 23:09, 7 March 2013 (UTC)

Wrong reference?
No idea what this was supposed to be referencing. It's not a real paper as far as I can tell? Barlow, H.B., & Hill, R.M. (1963). Evidence for a physiological explanation of the waterfall illusion. Nature, 200, 1345-1347. Lionfish0 (talk) 15:25, 31 October 2012 (UTC)

"A" or "The"?
The article used to start with "the", but Edwardian changed it to "a", arguing that a definition should start with an idefinite article. I would disagree in this specific case. This is a description of a general phenomenon, which (as a general phenomenon) only exists once. It's almost like "the Eiffel Tower" versus "an Eiffel Tower". Therefore, it should be "the motion aftereffect" rather than "a motion aftereffect". Also, the already cited standard work about the motion aftereffect by Mather et al. is titled "The Motion Aftereffect" and most chapter titles also use "the". This should convince everyone ;-) The article is not about specific perceptual events where someone observes a motion aftereffect and were "a" (but also "the" if one still thinks in terms of the phenomenon) would be ok. Anyone agrees? Dontaskme 21:32, 7 September 2005 (UTC)


 * My fault; I think you are right. I'm OK with changing it back, but then it should read: "The motion aftereffect (MAE) is the visual illusion perceived...". Cheers. Edwardian 21:40, 7 September 2005 (UTC)


 * I think, for the second article, both "a" and "the" would be OK, depending on how one mentally groups the different parts of the sentence. But if I get my "the", you should also get your "the" ;-) Dontaskme 21:59, 7 September 2005 (UTC)

Anmated .gif, anyone?
Couldn't the Quicktime video be changed to, or at least accompanied by, an animated .gif version or something like that? I don't have any computer at home that has the Quicktime codec on and I don't plan on installing it. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 142.213.254.2 (talk) 19:47, 1 June 2010 (UTC)