Characterisation of visual guidance of steering to intercept targets following curving trajectories using Qualitative Inconsistency Detection.

ABSTRACT: This study explored the informational variables guiding steering behaviour in a locomotor interception task with targets moving along circular trajectories. Using a new method of analysis focussing on the temporal co-evolution of steering behaviour and the potential information sources driving it, we set out to invalidate reliance on plausible informational candidates. Applied to individual trials rather than ensemble averages, this Qualitative Inconsistency Detection (QuID) method revealed that steering behaviour was not compatible with reliance on information grounded in any type of change in the agent-centred target-heading angle. First-order changes in the environment-centred target's bearing angle could also not adequately account for the variations in behaviour observed under the dif

SUBMITTER: van Opstal AAM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9691627 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature