The tau and anti-tau effects in successively presented stimuli.
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."
Matsuda
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Department of Psychology, Faculty of Education, Hiroshima University, Higashi-hiroshima, Japan. matsudaf@hiroshima-u.ac.jp
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Kojima
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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