ESTIMATION OF THE DIFFERENCE IN VISUAL LATENCY IN THE PULFRICH EFFECT

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1 Practical no 18 ESTMATO O THE DERECE VSUAL LATECY THE PULRCH EECT A. Linear Pulfrich effect. Eperimental setup: physical pendulum oscillating continuously (dumping of oscillations is compensated y electric power), plane tale with a moing indicator, with a filter of a regulated permeaility on one eye, ruler, measuring tape. 1. Set the indicator on the plane tale in the position of zero lines on the asis of the indicator must match the lines on the plane tale. Then set the whole tale in a position, where the indicator is located precisely under the pendulum. The tale must also e placed perpendicularly to the wall in the ackground. 2. Plug the electric power supply of the pendulum in the socket. Then the pendulum will start to oscillate. Oscillations will e stailised (ecome constant in time) after a short time. 3. Take a comfortale sitting position on a chair placed aout 1,5 m away from the pendulum. The lower part of the indicator must e placed eactly in front of eyes of the watching student. The upper part of the indicator must e isile at the angle of 90 0 this can e done y setting properly the height of the chair. Using the measuring tape estimate the distance etween the watching student and the pendulum. Write down the result to the Tale. 4. The watching student is putting on the with a filter and is checking out whether the Pulfrich effect is occurring. t means, it seems to him/her that the trajectory of moement of the edge of the pendulum is no longer linear, ut it has ecome elliptic (it can e osered while watching the moement). 5. a) Estimate the position of the near point (that is close to the watching student) of the seeming elliptic trajectory of moement of the edge of pendulum. or this purpose a group mate should moe the indicator on the plane tale until the watching student is reporting that the edge of the pendulum is placed directly aoe the indicator while the pendulum is passing the near point. MPORTAT OTE! The watching student must fi the ision eactly on the upper edge of the indicator; this will proide the est accuracy of measurements. Using the ruler measure the distance etween the near point of the seeming elliptic trajectory and the actual position of pendulum. Write down the result to the Tale. ) Repeat the procedure descried aoe to estimate the position of the far point (that is far from the watching student) of the seeming elliptic trajectory of moement of the edge of pendulum. Write down the result to the Tale. Attention: Since adoption of the filter-coered eye, which results in intensifying the Pulfrich effect, is starting immediately after putting on the, make short reaks after each minute of watching. The etter solution would e a total adoption of the filtercoered eye efore starting measurements howeer, this would require aout 20 minutes of time more (aout 40 minutes more for a working group) a time limit of the practical makes us eclude such a procedure. 6. Change significantly the filter s permeaility twice and repeat, each time, all the measurements descried in point 5a,. f the distance etween the watching student and the pendulum is changed, measure it again. Write down the results to the Tale. 7. Using the scale on the measure the distance etween the pupils of eyealls of the watching student. Assume that the elocity of pendulum s moement, at the point of equilirium, is 70 cm/s. Applying the Lit s formulas calculate differences in latencies Δt. Write down the results to the Tale. 8. Repeat all measurements with a group mate as the watching student.

2 B. Rotational Pulfrich effect. Eperimental setup: a ertical rod placed on a disk rotating continuously with a regulated angular elocity, with a filter of a regulated permeaility on one eye, ruler, measuring tape. 1. Set the white rotation direction switch on the left of the disk in the neutral (ertical) position and turn on the power supply of the disk (set the lack switch on the right of the disk in the position 1 ). 2. Set the minimal alue of angular elocity of the disk y turning the kno on the right of the disk counter clockwise to the left minimum. 3. Take a comfortale sitting position on a chair placed aout 1,5 m away from the disk. The upper part of the rod placed on the disk must e isile at the angle of 90 0 this can e done y setting properly the height of the chair. 4. f the left eye of the watching student is coered y the filter, the rod should rotate counter clockwise (white rotation direction switch should e set in the position towards me ), if the right eye is coered, the rod should rotate clockwise (white rotation direction switch should e set in the position out of me ). The watching student is putting on the and is starting to osere the moement of the upper part of the rod. 5. A group mate is turning the kno on the right of the disk clockwise to increase the frequency of the moement of the rod until the alue when the watching student is reporting that it seems to him/her that the rod is moing ack and forth on a trajectory connecting two opposite etremes of its actual moement (see igure 5). f it is not isile, increase the frequency of the moement of the rod until the watching student is reporting that it seems to him/her that the rod is moing in the opposite direction to the actual moement. Attention: changes in frequency of the moement of the rod must not e done too fast!. 6. Using a timer measure the time period T, which is a reciprocal of the frequency mentioned in the point 5. To reduce the eperimental error measure the time period of, let s day, 10 rotations and diide the calculated result y 10. Take off the. Write down the result to the Tale. Using the measuring tape estimate the distance etween the watching student and the centre of the disk. Write down the result to the Tale. 7. Change significantly the filter s permeaility twice and repeat, each time, all the measurements descried in points 2 and Applying the ickalls formula calculate differences in isual latencies Δt. Put the distance etween the pupils of eyealls of the watching student () measured in the preious part of the practical to the formula. Write down the results to the Tale. 9. Repeat all measurements with a group mate as the watching student. Required knowledge: 1. Binocular ision: fiation, retinal correspondence, retinal disparity. Horopter. Sensor fusion, Panum s fusional area. 2. dea of the Pulfrich effect (see theoretical supplement). 3. Eperimental methods applied in the practical (see theoretical supplement). 2

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4 Medical Uniersity in Wrocław Department of Biophysics Practical no 18 Estimation of the difference in isual latency in the Pulfrich effect... Tutor s signature... ames of students aculty: Student group: Working group: Date Grade A. LEAR PULRCH EECT STUDET 1 Distance etween the pupils of eyealls, [cm] Tale 1 Position of the filter in Distance etween the watching student and the pendulum, Distance etween the near point and [cm] ear point d - Distance etween the far point and [cm] ar point d + STUDET 2 Distance etween the pupils of eyealls, [cm] 4

5 Tale 2 Position of the filter in Distance etween the watching student and the pendulum, Distance etween the near point and [cm] ear point d - Distance etween the far point and [cm] ar point d + B. ROTATOAL PULRCH EECT STUDET Tale 3 Position of the filter in Distance etween the watching student and the centre of the disk, Time period of the moement, T [s] T 2π d STUDET Tale 4 Position of the filter in test glasses Distance etween the watching student and the centre of the disk, Time period of the moement, T [s] T 2π d 5