These scripts implement a framework to generate random texture movies with controlled information content that we call Motion Clouds.
The description of this method was published in:
- Paula S. Leon, Ivo Vanzetta, Guillaume S. Masson, Laurent U. Perrinet. Motion Clouds: Model-based stimulus synthesis of natural-like random textures for the study of motion perception. Journal of Neurophysiology, 107(11):3217--3226, 2012 http://invibe.net/LaurentPerrinet/Publications/Sanz12
While this method was used in the following paper:
- Claudio Simoncini, Laurent U. Perrinet, Anna Montagnini, Pascal Mamassian, Guillaume S. Masson. More is not always better: dissociation between perception and action explained by adaptive gain control. Nature Neuroscience, 2012 http://invibe.net/LaurentPerrinet/Publications/Simoncini12
This work is supported by the European Union project Number FP7-269921, ``BrainScaleS'' (Brain-inspired multiscale computation in neuromorphic hybrid systems), an EU FET-Proactive FP7 funded research project. The project started on 1 January 2011. It is a collaboration of 18 research groups from 10 European countries.
