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Perception is a fundamental psychological process that enables individuals to organize, interpret, and consciously experience sensory information. This process is crucial for understanding and interacting with the world around us. It includes both bottom-up and top-down processing, each playing a distinct role in how we perceive our environment.
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Perception is influenced by perceptual set, context, motivation, and emotion. Perceptual set, or perceptual expectancy, refers to the tendency to perceive things in a particular way, influenced by previous experiences and expectations. This phenomenon affects the interpretation of stimuli, creating a set of mental tendencies and assumptions that impact sensory perceptions of sound, taste, touch, and sight.
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Manipulating perception versus action in recalibration tasks.

Christine J Ziemer¹, Mia J Branson, Benjamin J Chihak

¹Missouri Western State University, St. Joseph, MO, USA, cziemer@missouriwestern.edu.

Attention, Perception & Psychophysics

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Perception-action recalibration occurred in blindfolded walking when visual motion or walking speed changed. Imagined walking showed recalibration only with visual motion changes, highlighting distinct spatial updating mechanisms.

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Area of Science:

Cognitive Psychology
Neuroscience
Human Movement Science

Background:

Perception-action recalibration is crucial for adapting to altered sensory-motor feedback.
Understanding how manipulating perception versus action influences this recalibration is key to understanding spatial updating.

Purpose of the Study:

To investigate the effects of manipulating visual motion rate and walking speed on perception-action recalibration.
To compare recalibration in real versus imagined blindfolded walking tasks.

Main Methods:

Six experiments involved blindfolded walking or imagined walking distance estimation tasks before and after a 10-minute recalibration phase.
Recalibration involved manipulating visual motion speed relative to walking speed or altering walking speed in a virtual environment.
Distance estimation was performed in real or virtual environments.

Main Results:

Real blindfolded walking showed recalibration when either visual motion or walking speed was manipulated.
Imagined walking demonstrated recalibration only when visual motion rate was manipulated, not walking speed.
Recalibration effects were observed in both real and virtual environments.

Conclusions:

Spatial updating processes are sensitive to manipulations in both perception and action, but with differential effects depending on the task (real vs. imagined walking).
The findings suggest distinct mechanisms underlying spatial updating in direct action versus representational tasks.