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ERIC Number: EJ742399
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2006-Aug
Pages: 15
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ISSN: ISSN-0096-1523
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The Role of Uncertainty in the Systematic Spatial Mislocalization of Moving Objects
Brenner, Eli; van Beers, Robert J.; Rotman, Gerben; Smeets, Jeroen B. J.
Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, v32 n4 p811-825 Aug 2006
It only makes sense to talk about the position of a moving object if one specifies the time at which its position is of interest. The authors here show that when a flash or tone specifies the moment of interest, subjects estimate the moving object to be closer to where it passes the fixation point and further in its direction of motion than it really is. The authors propose that these biases arise from a combination of a large temporal uncertainty, a temporal asymmetry related to sampling the moving object's position, and a bias toward believing that one is looking at what one sees.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive
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Language: English
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