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Timothy L Hubbard1, Jon R Courtney
1Department of Psychology, Texas Christian University, Fort Worth, TX 76129, USA. t.hubbard@tcu.edu
Abstract:
The influence of a moving target on memory for the location of a briefly presented stationary object aligned with the initial location of that moving target was examined. Memory for the location of the stationary object was displaced backward (ie in the direction opposite to target motion), and memory for the initial location of the moving target was also displaced backward (consistent with an onset-repulsion effect); displacement of the stationary object did not differ from displacement of the moving target. Displacement in memory for the initial location of a moving target was not influenced by whether or not a stationary object aligned with that initial location was also presented. The results demonstrate that motion-induced mislocalization can occur in a direction other than the direction of motion, and are consistent with the hypothesis that dynamics of a moving target can influence memory for a nearby stationary object.
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