Wilson, A.D. and Bingham, G.P. (2008) Identifying the information for the visual perception of relative phase. Attention, Perception & Psychophysics, 70 (3). pp. 465-476. ISSN 0031-5117
Abstract
The production and perception of coordinated rhythmic movement are very specifically structured. For production and perception, 0° mean relative phase is stable, 180° is less stable, and no other state is stable without training. It has been hypothesized that perceptual stability characteristics underpin the movement stability characteristics, which has led to the development of a phase-driven oscillator model (e.g., Bingham, 2004a, 2004b). In the present study, a novel perturbation method was used to explore the identity of the perceptual information being used in rhythmic movement tasks. In the three conditions, relative position, relative speed, and frequency (variables motivated by the model) were selectively perturbed. Ten participants performed a judgment task to identify 0° or 180° under these perturbation conditions, and 8 participants who had been trained to visually discriminate 90° performed the task with perturbed 90° displays. Discrimination of 0° and 180° was unperturbed in 7 out of the 10 participants, but discrimination of 90° was completely disrupted by the position perturbation and was made noisy by the frequency perturbation. We concluded that (1) the information used by most observers to perceive relative phase at 0° and 180° was relative direction and (2) becoming an expert perceiver of 90° entails learning a new variable composed of position and speed.
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Biological Sciences (Leeds) > Institute of Membrane and Systems Biology (Leeds) > Cardiovascular and Sports Sciences Group (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Repository Officer |
Date Deposited: | 02 Oct 2009 16:47 |
Last Modified: | 16 Sep 2016 13:48 |
Published Version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.3758/PP.70.3.465 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | The Psychonomic Society |
Identification Number: | 10.3758/PP.70.3.465 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:9812 |