The perception of visually presented yaw and pitch turns: Assessing the contribution of motion, static, and cognitive cues

From: Perception and Psychophysics | Date: November 1, 2006| Author: Amorim, Michel-Ange; Berthoz, Alain; McIntyre, Joseph; Vidal, Manuel | Copyright information

Terrestrial gravity restricts human locomotion to surfaces in which turns involve rotations around the body axis. Because observers are usually upright, one might expect the effects of gravity to induce differences in the processing of vertical versus horizontal turns. Subjects observed visual scenes of bending tunnels, either statically or dynamically, as if they were moving passively through the visual scene and were then asked to reproduce the turn deviation of the tunnel with a trackball....

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