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Analysis of the perception of motion concomitant with a lateral motion of the head

This study is concerned with two questions regarding the illusory motion of objects that occurs concomitantly with motion of the head. One is whether this illusory concomitant motion, unlike the perception of real motion, is paradoxical in the sense that, although the object appears to move, it does not appear to go anywhere. The second question is whether illusory concomitant motion can be explained by errors in convergence produced by a tendency for the convergence of the eyes to displace in the direction of the resting state of convergence. Both questions receive a negative answer. In Experiment 1, it is shown that the illusory motion perceptually can add to or subtract from apparent motion resulting from real motion. In Experiment 2, it is shown that, for a binocularly viewed object at a near distance, the error in convergence (fixation disparity) is far too small to be an explanation for the illusory object motion associated with a moving head. The results of both experiments support an interpretation of illusory concomitant motion in terms of errors in the apparent distance of the stimulus object and the veridical perception of its direction.

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