Motion duration is overestimated behind an occluder in action and perception tasks.

ABSTRACT: Motion estimation behind an occluder is a common task in situations like crossing the street or passing another car. People tend to overestimate the duration of an object's motion when it gets occluded for subsecond motion durations. Here, we explored (a) whether this bias depended on the type of interceptive action: discrete keypress versus continuous reach and (b) whether it was present in a perception task without an interceptive action. We used a prediction-motion task and presented a bar moving across the screen with a constant velocity that later became occluded. In the action task, participants stopped the occluded bar when they thought the bar reached the goal position via keypress or reach. They were more likely to stop the bar after it passed the goal position regardless of the a

SUBMITTER: Menceloglu M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10184779 | biostudies-literature | 2023 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature