Extrapolating movement without retinal motion

John Schlag (), Rick H. Cai, Andrews Dorfman, Ali Mohempour and Madeleine Schlag-Rey
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John Schlag: School of Medicine, UCLA
Rick H. Cai: School of Medicine, UCLA
Andrews Dorfman: School of Medicine, UCLA
Ali Mohempour: School of Medicine, UCLA
Madeleine Schlag-Rey: School of Medicine, UCLA

Nature, 2000, vol. 403, issue 6765, 38-39

Abstract: Abstract In contrast to the perception of a stationary object that is briefly flashed in the dark, a continuously visible moving object is seen as being ahead of its actual position at the time of the flash. An explanation for this simple effect, in which a stimulus moving on the retina is seen as being further along its path and not where it was in space when its signal impinged on the retina, is keenly debated1,2,3,4,5,6. We show here that this illusion is not just limited to retinal motion, and that perceptual mislocalization occurs even when stimulus motion is inferred entirely from extra-retinal information, for example by movement of the observer's head or whole body, without retinal motion. The phenomenon may therefore rely on a much more general mechanism.

Date: 2000
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