The relationship of undershooting (anticipation) error in space localization to spatial dimension and spatial category width.
In this study I explored whether the degree of anticipation/habituation (undershooting/overshooting) varies with the dimension to be localized, when the method of adjustment is used in space localization. In this study, undershooting occurred for both the vertical (Group 1) and the horizontal (Group 2) dimensions, but was significant only for verticality. The magnitude of undershooting observed for verticality was significantly greater than that for horizontality. A secondary issue regarding the possible relationship between spatial category width and undershooting/overshooting was examined. It was hypothesized that greater degree of spatial category width would be associated with greater undershooting. The opposite was found: Spatial category width was negatively related to undershooting. Finally, within each group, very high consistency of magnitude of spatial category width was observed (rs greater than .90), despite the fact that spatial category width showed shrinkage over the course of the study.
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Department of Psychology, Queens College, City University of New York, Flushing 11367.
D003071:Cognition; D006185:Habituation, Psychophysiologic; D006801:Humans; D007206:Individuality; D008297:Male; D011601:Psychophysics; D013028:Space Perception