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Perceiving causal relations between moving objects: Postdictive causal attribution can bias apparent motion correspondence

The Korean Journal of Cognitive and Biological Psychology / The Korean Journal of Cognitive and Biological Psychology, (P)1226-9654; (E)2733-466X
2018, v.30 no.2, pp.141-156
https://doi.org/10.22172/cogbio.2018.30.2.004


& (2018). Perceiving causal relations between moving objects: Postdictive causal attribution can bias apparent motion correspondence. The Korean Journal of Cognitive and Biological Psychology, 30(2), 141-156, https://doi.org/10.22172/cogbio.2018.30.2.004

Abstract

Comprehension of physical events in terms of cause and effect is fundamental for making sense of and dealing successfully with changes in the dynamic physical world. Previous research has demonstrated that the causal structure of the world can, in some cases, be directly perceived: When two billiard balls collide, observers perceive that the action of one ball caused the other's motion, merging two motion events into a unitary percept. The current study explored whether such casual interpretations can contribute to resolving low-level ambiguities in motion perception. We used a bistable apparent motion display, a motion quartet, which can lead to the perception of either horizontal or vertical motion, and tested the effects of “context objects” which moved in such a way that motion targets appeared to collide with them in either horizontal or vertical dimension. Our results show that contextual motion implying a Michotte-style launch can strongly bias observed motion correspondence, consistent with physical regularities of mechanical causality in a postdictive way. It suggests that the perception of causality is an earlier and more pervasive phenomenon than previously understood, and in fact can influence the perception of motion itself.

keywords
causal perception, apparent motion, motion correspondence, postdiction, 인과적 지각, 가현운동, 움직임 대응문제, 사후추정

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