THE INFORMATIONAL BASIS OF MOTION COHERENCE

Observers judged the motion coherence of random-dot cinematograms. The oretical models were developed for coherence matches between cinematog rams constructed from different angle distributions. Evidence is prese nted that coherence matches are made on the basis of the Shannon-Wiene r information entropy. We show how the formal structure of information theory may be used to predict perceived pattern goodness when the und erlying distributions of pattern alternatives are implicit in the judg ment task.