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Mental and sensorimotor extrapolation fare better than motion extrapolation in the offset condition

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 May 2008

Dirk Kerzel  and
Jochen Müsseler
Dirk Kerzel
Affiliation:
Faculté de Psychologie et des Sciences de l'Éducation, Université de Genève, 1205 Genève, Switzerland; dirk.kerzel@pse.unige.chhttp://www.unige.ch/fapse/PSY/persons/kerzel/
Jochen Müsseler
Affiliation:
Psychology Department, RWTH Aachen University, 52056 Aachen, Germany. muesseler@psych.rwth-aachen.dehttp://www.psych.rwth-aachen.de/ifp-zentral/front_content.php?idcat=222
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Abstract

Evidence for motion extrapolation at motion offset is scarce. In contrast, there is abundant evidence that subjects mentally extrapolate the future trajectory of weak motion signals at motion offset. Further, pointing movements overshoot at motion offset. We believe that mental and sensorimotor extrapolation is sufficient to solve the problem of perceptual latencies. Both present the advantage of being much more flexible than motion extrapolation.

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 31 , Issue 2 , April 2008 , pp. 206 - 207
Copyright
Copyright ©Cambridge University Press 2008

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