title: Does representational momentum reflect a distortion of the length or the endpoint of a trajectory?
abstract: Observers viewed a moving target, and after the target vanished, indicated either the initial position or the final position of the target. In Experiment 1, an auditory tone cued observers to indicate either the initial position or the final position; in Experiment 2, different groups of observers indicated the initial position or the final position. Judgments of the initial position were displaced backward in the direction opposite to motion, and judgments of the final position were displaced forward in the direction of motion. The data suggest that the remembered trajectory is longer than the actual trajectory, and the displacement pattern is not consistent with the hypothesis that representational momentum results from a distortion of memory for the location of a trajectory.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, Texas Christian University, Fort Worth, TX 76129, USA. t.hubbard@tcu.edu
authors.forename: Timothy L
authors.initials: TL
authors.lastname: Hubbard
authors.forename: Michael A
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Motes
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001288:Attention; D003210:Concept Formation; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011939:Mental Recall; D009039:Motion Perception; D009949:Orientation; D010364:Pattern Recognition, Visual; D010469:Perceptual Distortion; D011340:Problem Solving; D011601:Psychophysics