title: The tau and anti-tau effects in successively presented stimuli.
abstract: It was confirmed by the reproduction method with 20 adults that (a) the tau effect, i.e., the greater the temporal separation between successively presented stimuli with a constant spatial interval, the greater the apparent spatial interval, occurred, especially in the situation in which the participants were assumed to form a set easily using temporal interval as the cue for spatial interval estimation, and (b) the anti-tau effect occurred in the special situation in which the participants were assumed to form a set using speed of an imaginary movement as the cue for it. These findings supported the hypothesis of "cue-selection sets."
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, Faculty of Education, Hiroshima University, Higashi-hiroshima, Japan. matsudaf@hiroshima-u.ac.jp
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Matsuda
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Matsuda
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Kojima
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D004215:Distance Perception; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009039:Motion Perception; D009949:Orientation; D010364:Pattern Recognition, Visual; D011340:Problem Solving; D011601:Psychophysics; D012718:Set, Psychology; D013028:Space Perception; D013998:Time Perception