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When a moving target vanishes abruptly, participants judge its final position as being ahead of its actual final position, in the direction of motion (resentational momentum Freyd & Finke, 1984). In the present study, we presented illusory motion and examined whether or not forward displacement was affected by the perceived direction and speed of the target. Experiments 1A and 1B showed that an illusory direction of movement of a target was perceived, and Experiment 2 showed that an illusory speed of a moving target was observed. However, neither the direction nor the magnitude of forward displacement was affected by these illusions. Therefore, it was suggested that the mechanism underlying forward displacement (or some extrapolation processing) uses different motion signals than does the perceptual mechanism.
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This study was supported by Research Fellowship 200201154 from the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science for Young Scientists, Grant D-2 to Kyoto University from the 21st Century COE Program of MEXT, and the Research for the Future Program, administered by the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (Project No. JSPS-RFTF99P01401). We express our appreciation of Toshio Inui for his advice on this project and of Christopher Taylor for improving the English.
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NAGAI, M., SAIKI, J. Illusory motion and representational momentum. Perception & Psychophysics 67, 855–866 (2005). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03193538
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