Perceptual judgement and saccadic behaviour in a spatial distortion with briefly presented stimuli

• Authors: Sonja Stork , Jochen Müsseler , A. H. C. van der Heijden

Abstracts

EN

When observers are asked to localize the peripheral position of a small probe with respect to the mid-position of a spatially extended comparison stimulus, they tend to judge the probe as being more peripheral than the mid-position of the comparison stimulus. This relative mislocalization seems to emerge from differences in absolute localization, that is the comparison stimulus is localized more towards the fovea than the probe. The present study compared saccadic behaviour and relative localization judgements in three experiments and determined the quantitative relationship between both measures. The results showed corresponding effects in localization errors and saccadic behaviour. Moreover, it was possible to estimate the amount of the relative mislocalization by means of the saccadic amplitude.

Keywords

EN

eye movement; saccade; localization; position; absolute position judgement; relative position judgement; space perception; visual illusion

• Publisher: Wyższa Szkoła Finansów i Zarządzania w Warszawie
• Journal: Advances in Cognitive Psychology
• Year: 2010
• Volume: 6
• Pages: 1-14

Contributors

author

Sonja Stork

• Department of Psychology, Ludwig Maximilian University Munich, Germany

author

Jochen Müsseler

• Department of Psychology, RWTH Aachen University, Germany

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A. H. C. van der Heijden

• Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen, Instituut Psychologie, Leiden University, The Netherlands

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Identifiers

DOI

10.2478/v10053-008-0072-6