Perceived travel distance depends on the speed and direction of self-motion.

ABSTRACT: Although estimating travel distance is essential to our ability to move through the world, our distance estimates can be inaccurate. These odometric errors occur because people tend to perceive that they have moved further than they had. Many of the studies investigating the perception of travel distance have primarily used forward translational movements, and postulate that perceived travel distance results from integration over distance and is independent of travel speed. Speed effects would imply integration over time as well as space. To examine travel distance perception with different directions and speeds, we used virtual reality (VR) to elicit visually induced self-motion. Participants (n = 15) were physically stationary while being visually "moved" through a virtual corridor, eith

SUBMITTER: Bansal A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11423974 | biostudies-literature | 2024

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature