Title |
Misperceptions in the Trajectories of Objects undergoing Curvilinear Motion
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Published in |
PLOS ONE, May 2012
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DOI | 10.1371/journal.pone.0036511 |
Pubmed ID | |
Authors |
Ozgur Yilmaz, Srimant P. Tripathy, Haluk Ogmen |
Abstract |
Trajectory perception is crucial in scene understanding and action. A variety of trajectory misperceptions have been reported in the literature. In this study, we quantify earlier observations that reported distortions in the perceived shape of bilinear trajectories and in the perceived positions of their deviation. Our results show that bilinear trajectories with deviation angles smaller than 90 deg are perceived smoothed while those with deviation angles larger than 90 degrees are perceived sharpened. The sharpening effect is weaker in magnitude than the smoothing effect. We also found a correlation between the distortion of perceived trajectories and the perceived shift of their deviation point. Finally, using a dual-task paradigm, we found that reducing attentional resources allocated to the moving target causes an increase in the perceived shift of the deviation point of the trajectory. We interpret these results in the context of interactions between motion and position systems. |
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