title: Fairground rides and spatial updating.
abstract: A simple experiment with a rotating office chair demonstrates that the extent of counter-rotation we experience when imposed rotation has stopped is the same as the angular inaccuracy of pointing to a previously fixated object. This suggests that our conscious percept of rotation and the updating signal for the egocentric model we use to guide motor actions are closely related.
authors.affiliation: School of Life Sciences, University of Sussex, Brighton BN1 9QG, UK. m.f.land@sussex.ac.uk
authors.forename: Michael F
authors.initials: MF
authors.lastname: Land
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D009949:Orientation / Q000502:physiology*; D010364:Pattern Recognition, Visual / Q000502:physiology*; D012399:Rotation; D012665:Semicircular Canals / Q000502:physiology*; D013028:Space Perception