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  • Visual perception
  • Cognitive neuroscience
  • Physics perception

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  • Estimating object mass and velocity is crucial for navigating dynamic environments.
  • Previous models often treat mass and velocity estimation separately, lacking a unified mechanism.

Purpose of the Study:

  • Introduce and validate the Online Processing of Dynamics Model (OPoD) for visual mass estimation.
  • Investigate the joint and reciprocal influence of mass and velocity perception.

Main Methods:

  • Developed the OPoD model, positing joint encoding of mass and velocity in a shared representation.
  • Conducted three experiments to test OPoD's predictions regarding mutual biases between mass and velocity perception.
  • Compared OPoD's performance against an adapted noisy Newton model.

Main Results:

  • Empirically confirmed that initial mass impressions bias perceived post-collision velocity.
  • Demonstrated that velocity biases subsequently influence relative mass judgments.
  • OPoD provided superior quantitative fits compared to the noisy Newton model.

Conclusions:

  • Mass and velocity are jointly encoded and mutually constraining within a momentum-like representation.
  • OPoD offers a mechanistic explanation for integrated physical expectations in dynamic scene perception.
  • The model provides an ecologically grounded complement to probabilistic frameworks.