Space and Time in Perception and Action

✍ Scribed by Romi Nijhawan (editor), Beena Khurana (editor)

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Year: 2010
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 582
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

What is the instantaneous position of a moving object from the point of view of the observer? How does a tennis player know when and where to place their racket in order to return a 120 mph serve? Does time stop sometimes and go faster at others? Space, time and motion have played a fundamental role in extending the foundations of 19th and 20th century physics. Key breakthroughs resulted from scientists who focused not just on measurements based on rulers and clocks, but also on the role of the observer. Research targeted on the observer's capabilities and limitations raises a promising new approach that is likely to forward our understanding of neuroscience and psychophysics. Space and Time in Perception and Action brings together theory and empirical findings from world-class experts and is written for advanced students and neuroscientists with a particular interest in the psychophysics of space, time and motion.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover......Page 1
Frontmatter......Page 2
Contents......Page 6
List of contributors......Page 9
Acknowledgments......Page 14
1 - Space and time: the fabric of thought and reality......Page 16
Part I - Time--space during action: perisaccadic mislocalization and reaching......Page 22
2 - The internal eye position signal, psychophysics, and neurobiology......Page 24
3 - Factors influencing perisaccadic visual mislocalization......Page 34
4 - Visual and nonvisual factors in perisaccadic compression of space......Page 53
5 - Keeping vision stable: rapid updating of spatiotopic receptive fields may cause relativistic-like effects......Page 67
6 - Combined influences of extraretinal signals, retinal signals, and visual induction on space perception and manual behavior in perisaccadic and steady viewing......Page 78
7 - Space constancy: the rise and fall of perceptual compensation......Page 109
8 - Intercepting moving objects: do eye movements matter?......Page 124
9 - The utility of visual motion for goal-directed reaching......Page 136
Part II - Temporal phenomena: perception......Page 162
10 - Saccadic chronostasis and the continuity of subjective temporal experience across eye movements......Page 164
11 - Experiencing the future: the influence of self-initiation on temporal perception......Page 179
12 - On the perceived interdependence of space and time: evidence for spatial priming in the temporal kappa effect......Page 196
Part III - Temporal phenomena: binding and asynchrony......Page 212
13 - Dynamics of visual feature binding......Page 214
14 - How does the timing of neural signals map onto the timing of perception?......Page 231
15 - Mechanisms of simultaneity constancy......Page 247
16 - Relative timing and perceptual asynchrony......Page 269
17 - The time marker account of cross-channel temporal judgments......Page 293
18 - Simultaneity versus asynchrony of visual motion and luminance changes......Page 316
Part IV - Spatial phenomena: forward shift effects......Page 334
19 - The Fröhlich effect: past and present......Page 336
20 - Approaches to representational momentum: theories and models......Page 353
21 - Conceptual influence on the flash-lag effect and representational momentum......Page 381
22 - Perceptual asynchronies and the dual-channel differential latency hypothesis......Page 394
23 - Paying attention to the flash-lag effect......Page 411
24 - Illusions of time, space, and motion: flash-lag meets chopsticks and reversed phi......Page 423
25 - Bridging the gap: a model of common neural mechanisms underlying the Fröhlich effect, the flash-lag effect, and the representational momentum effect......Page 437
26 - Perceiving-the-present and a unifying theory of illusions......Page 456
27 - History and theory of flash-lag: past, present, and future......Page 492
Part V - Space--time and awareness......Page 516
28 - Object updating: a force for perceptual continuity and scene stability in human vision......Page 518
29 - A motion illusion reveals the temporally discrete nature of visual awareness......Page 536
30 - Priming and retouch in flash-lag and other phenomena of the streaming perceptual input......Page 551
Index......Page 574