Abstract
Motion aftereffect (MAE) is a negative aftereffect caused by prolonged viewing of visual motion: after gazing at a moving grating for a while, a stationary image will appear to move in the opposite direction (Ashida and Osaka, 1995 Vision Research35 1825). Evoked magnetic field (magnetoencephalogram: MEG) was measured on a human subject observing visual motion and MAE. Magnetic evoked field (80 averagings) was measured from 37 points over occipital and parietal areas (Magnes SQUID biomagnetometer, BTi) during watching a horizontally moving sinusoidal grating with low spatial frequency (2 cycles deg−1 with 5 Hz: motion condition) and immediately after stopping the moving grating (MAE condition). Dipole estimates based on equal magnetic field contour suggest that the main loci subserving visual motion and MAE appear to be the surrounding region over occipital and parietal areas in the human brain. Further analysis is now underway. In general, this appears to be in good agreement with another study using fMRI-based MAE measures [Tootell et al, 1995 Nature (London)375 139] in which a clear increase in activity in these areas was observed when subjects viewed MAE.
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