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Perceptual constancy of uisual motion is usually described as the degree of correspondence between physical and perceived characteristics of motion in the external world. To study it, one has to assess the relationship between physical motion, its retinal image, and its perception. We describe a quantitative estimation procedure for a measure K denoting the degree of perceptual constancy of background target motions noncollinear to the eye movements during ocular pursuit. The calculation of K is based on three vectors describing the target motion (1) as it is physically, (2) as it is mapped to the retina, and (3) as it is perceived, but only the direction of the perceptual motion vector has to be determined experimentally. K allows for quantitative comparison between experiments with a variety of parameters in visual motton displays.
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Mateeff, S., Yakimoff, N., Hohnsbein, J. et al. Perceptual constancy during ocutar pursuit: A quantitative estimation procedure. Perception & Psychophysics 49, 390–392 (1991). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03205997
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03205997