The role of head-centric spatial reference with a static and kinetic visual disturbance |
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Authors: | Michel Guerraz Didier Poquin Théophile Ohlmann |
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Affiliation: | 1. Laboratoire de Psychologie Expérimentale, Université Pierre Mendès France (Grenoble II), 38040, BP 47, Grenoble Cedex 9, France 2. Centre de Recherches du Service de Santé des Armées, La Tronche, France
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Abstract: | A static or kinetic visual disturbance affects subjects’ ability to estimate the direction of the gravitational vertical. This kind of error is increased by a head roll inclination. In two experiments, we combined head orientation with a static (Experiment 1: tilted frame) versus kinetic (Experiment 2: rotating disk) visual disturbance. The results showed that with a static visual disturbance, the increase of errors in the inclined head condition was mainly the consequence of a postural head effect like an Aubert effect. On the contrary, with a kinetic visual disturbance, it appears that the disk effect increases with head inclination. However, individual errors observed with the head inclined in front of a stationary disk were systematically correlated with the errors triggered by the same head inclination in front of a rotating disk. These observations confirm that the head axis spatial reference plays an important role in orientation perception, whatever the head position and the kind of visual display. |
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