Mental imagery of visual motion modifies the perception of roll-vection stimulation

Mast, Fred W; Berthoz, Alain; Kosslyn, Stephen M (2001). Mental imagery of visual motion modifies the perception of roll-vection stimulation. Perception, 30(8), pp. 945-957. Sage 10.1068/p3088

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When viewing a wide-angle visual display, which rotates in the frontoparallel plane around the line of sight, observers experience an illusory shift of the direction of gravity; this shift leads to an apparent tilt of the body and displaces allocentric space coordinates. In this study, subjects adjusted an indicator to the apparent horizontal while viewing a rotating display. To determine whether top down processes could affect the illusion, the subjects were asked to visualize a rotating configuration of dots onto a blank central portion of the moving visual field. Visualizing dots and actually viewing the dots deflected the spatial judgment in very similar ways. These results demonstrate that top down processing can affect allocentric space coordinates.

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