Hostname: page-component-78c5997874-8bhkd Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-11-10T13:00:31.511Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

On the subject of perceptual illusions, and the ambiguity of perceptual information

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 June 2005

Arve Vorland Pedersen  and
Hermundur Sigmundsson
Arve Vorland Pedersen*
Affiliation:
Department of Physiotherapy, Sør-Trøndelag University College, N-7004Trondheim, Norway
Hermundur Sigmundsson*
Affiliation:
Faculty of Social Sciences and Technology Management, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, N-7491Trondheim, Norwayhttp://www.svt.ntnu.no/iss/hermundur.sigmundsson/
*
Arve.Pedersen@ahs.hist.no
Hermundur.Sigmundsson@svt.ntnu.no
Get access Rights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

Abstract:

Stoffregen & Bardy (S&B) make the point that the statement “I am moving” made by subjects in a “swinging room” cannot be explained as an illusion of motion, and there is thus no perceptual illusion. In this they are correct. There is in fact motion, but of the environment. We argue that the subjects misinterpret this because the information to the visual system is ambiguous and also deceiving.

Type
Continuing Commentary
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 27 , Issue 6 , December 2004 , pp. 889
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2004

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

Footnotes

Commentary onT. A. Stoffregen & B. G. Bardy (2001). On specification and the senses. BBS 24(2):195–261.