Visual and Non-Visual Contributions to the Perception of Object Motion during Self-Motion

• Published in: PloS one Vol. 8; no. 2; p. e55446
• Main Authors: Fajen, Brett R., Matthis, Jonathan S.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States Public Library of Science 07.02.2013; Public Library of Science (PLoS)
• Subjects: Adult; Animal behavior; Animal cognition; Automobile industry; Biology; Brain research; Experimental psychology; Female; Humans; Hypotheses; Interception; Male; Medicine; Motion; Motion detection; Object motion; Optic flow; Optics; Perception; Perceptions; Physiology; Social and Behavioral Sciences; Studies; Visual Perception; Visual stimuli; Visual system; Young Adult; New York; United States > US

Many locomotor tasks involve interactions with moving objects. When observer (i.e., self-)motion is accompanied by object motion, the optic flow field includes a component due to self-motion and a component due to object motion. For moving observers to perceive the movement of other objects relative...