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Amelioration of axis-aligned motion bias for active versus stationary judgments of bilaterally symmetric moving shapes' final destinations.
MedLine Citation:
PMID:  19304643     Owner:  NLM     Status:  MEDLINE    
Abstract/OtherAbstract:
Recent research confirms that observers' judgments of projected final destinations of axis-trajectory misaligned moving figures are biased in the direction of primary axis deviation from trajectory, a phenomenon we named the axis-aligned motion (AAM) bias. The present study tests whether this bias occurs in a large, immersive mixed-reality environment that enables active (mobile) responses in making judgments of shapes' destinations. Like Morikawa (1999), we found that accuracy depended on axis-trajectory alignment and that there was a correspondence between final destination judgment error and the direction of axial deviation from the trajectory. Extending prior work, we found that comobile judgments were significantly more accurate than stationary ones for symmetric moving shapes, regardless of axial deviation, but only marginally so for asymmetric shapes. We conclude that our findings are ecologically consistent and that AAM is a natural regularity for which people have acquired a complementary perceptual-cognitive attunement: the AAM bias.
Authors:
Igor Dolgov; David A Birchfield; Michael K McBeath; Harvey Thornburg; Christopher G Todd
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Publication Detail:
Type:  Journal Article; Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S.    
Journal Detail:
Title:  Attention, perception & psychophysics     Volume:  71     ISSN:  1943-3921     ISO Abbreviation:  Atten Percept Psychophys     Publication Date:  2009 Apr 
Date Detail:
Created Date:  2009-03-23     Completed Date:  2009-05-11     Revised Date:  2011-02-24    
Medline Journal Info:
Nlm Unique ID:  101495384     Medline TA:  Atten Percept Psychophys     Country:  United States    
Other Details:
Languages:  eng     Pagination:  523-9     Citation Subset:  C; IM    
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, Arizona State University, Box 871104, Tempe, AZ 85287-1104, USA. id@asu.edu
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MeSH Terms
Descriptor/Qualifier:
Attention*
Depth Perception*
Discrimination (Psychology)
Female
Humans
Judgment*
Male
Motion Perception*
Optical Illusions*
Orientation*
Pattern Recognition, Visual*
Perceptual Distortion
User-Computer Interface*

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