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The tau and anti-tau effects in successively presented stimuli
F Matsuda1, M Matsuda, Y Kojima
1Department of Psychology, Faculty of Education, Hiroshima University, Higashi-hiroshima, Japan. matsudaf@hiroshima-u.ac.jp
Abstract:
It was confirmed by the reproduction method with 20 adults that (a) the tau effect, i.e., the greater the temporal separation between successively presented stimuli with a constant spatial interval, the greater the apparent spatial interval, occurred, especially in the situation in which the participants were assumed to form a set easily using temporal interval as the cue for spatial interval estimation, and (b) the anti-tau effect occurred in the special situation in which the participants were assumed to form a set using speed of an imaginary movement as the cue for it. These findings supported the hypothesis of "cue-selection sets."