Perceptual Constraints on Understanding Physical Dynamics

Abstract

Our ability to perceive, remember, imagine, and reason about motions is related to the mathematical constraints that are required to represent different kinds of motions and to physiological constraints that exist in motion processing. These constraints are of both a mathematical and physiological nature. Experiments were conducted that investigated the inherent differences between translations and rotations in a variety of perceptual and cognitive domains. It is concluded that rotations are harder to see, remember, imagine, and reason about due to additional complications that processing rotations requires. Perception, Cognition, Apparent motion, Motion parallax, Dynamics, Intuitive physics, Attention.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Feb 04, 1994
Accession Number
ADA277330

Entities

People

  • David Gilden
  • Dennis R. Proffitt

Organizations

  • University of Virginia

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Abstracts
  • Classification
  • Cognition
  • Contrast
  • Detection
  • Detectors
  • Geometry
  • Mathematics
  • Observers
  • Orientation (Direction)
  • Perception
  • Physics
  • Psychology
  • Reasoning
  • Recognition
  • Specifications
  • Visual Cortex

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Control Systems Engineering.
  • Team-Based Human-Centered Cognitive Task Decision Making and Information Performance.
  • Vision Science/Vision Psychology/Cognitive Neuroscience.