Object-motion detection affected by concurrent self-motion perception: applied aspects for vehicle guidance.
Thresholds and response times for object-motion detection are significantly raised during concurrent real or visually induced self-motion perception. This was demonstrated by standardized laboratory experiments in which subjects had to react to a suprathreshold visual stimulus (1 degree-light spot moving with 5 degrees/s speed) under different stimulus conditions of simultaneously perceived self-motion. Elevated response times (mean elevation factor: 3.27) were also obtained for the detection of changes in inter-vehicle distance (headway) under real road conditions with the simultaneous involvement of self- and object-motion perception compared to a corresponding (object-motion perception) simulation in the laboratory without any self-motion. With regard to vehicle guidance, existing concepts of safe stopping distances, which depend upon adequate detection of a collision course and the corresponding reaction times, have to be recalculated.
Probst
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Institute of Experimental Biological Psychology, University of Düsseldorf, F.R.G.
Krafczyk
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Brandt
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D000328:Adult; D001334:Automobile Driving; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008433:Mathematics; D009039:Motion Perception / Q000502:physiology*; D009068:Movement; D011930:Reaction Time / Q000502:physiology; D012684:Sensory Thresholds / Q000502:physiology