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Motion percepts: “Sense specific,” “kinematic,” or . . . ?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 April 1999

A. H. Wertheim
Affiliation:
TNO Human Factors Research Institute, 3769 DE, Soesterberg, The Netherlandswertheim@tm.tno.nl
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In line with my model of object motion perception (Wertheim 1994) and in contradistinction to what Stoffregen (1994) states, Sauvan's data suggest that percepts of motion are not sense specific. It is here argued that percepts of object- or self-motion are neither sense specific nor do they necessarily stem from what Stoffregen calls “kinematic events.” Stoffregen's error is in believing that we can only perceive object- or self-motion relative to other objects, which implies a failure to realise that percepts of absolute object- or self-motion in space (relative to the earth's surface) do exist as well, even when the earth's surface itself is not perceived.

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