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Jones and Holding (1975) showed that orientation-contingent color aftereffects can persist for at least 3 months, but are depleted by repeated testing. We applied the same paradigm to a simple motion aftereffect (MAE) and found that it can persist for up to 1week and is only slightly diminished by testing. It was further found that simple MAEs appear to persist longer than color-contingent MAEs, although when procedures for inducing and measuring both kinds of aftereffect are equalized, contingent MAEs last longer. Finally, no tendency was found for color-contingent MAEs to diminish with repeated testing. Although both simple and color-contingent MAEs can be relatively persistent, there are certain differences between them. Furthermore, contingent aftereffects should not be considered interchangeable, as there appear to be large differences in the persistence of orientation-contingent color aftereffect and color-contingent MAEs.
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Harris, C. S., & Frome, F. What’s so special about contingent aftereffects? Paper presented to the meeting of the Canadian Psychological Association in Toronto, 1976.
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This research was supported by Grant A 9846 from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada.
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Favreau, O.E. Persistence of simple and contingent motion aftereffects. Perception & Psychophysics 26, 187–194 (1979). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03199868
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