Perceptual analysis of moving patterns.
Configurations of moving points are often perceptually analyzed into relative and common vectors that are different from the actual motions. If a movement configuration is abruptly replaced by a test point whose objective velocity continues the apparent (but illusory) course of one of the original points, observers perceive that course as uninterrupted and colinear. This finding provides a quantitative measure of the vector extraction phenomenon and was used to show that neither of the two current models adequately fits that phenomenon.
D004192:Discrimination, Psychological; D005133:Eye Movements; D005260:Female; D005556:Form Perception; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008960:Models, Psychological; D009039:Motion Perception; D014794:Visual Fields