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Simulated Viewpoint Jitter Shakes Sensory Conflict Accounts of Vection

Simulated Viewpoint Jitter Shakes Sensory Conflict Accounts of Vection <jats:sec><jats:title>Abstract</jats:title><jats:p>Sensory conflict has been used to explain the way we perceive and control our self-motion, as well as the aetiology of motion sickness. However, recent research on simulated viewpoint jitter provides a strong challenge to one core prediction of these theories — that increasing sensory conflict should always impair visually induced illusions of self-motion (known as vection). These studies show that jittering self-motion displays (thought to generate significant and sustained visual–vestibular conflict) actually induce superior vection to comparable non-jittering displays (thought to generate only minimal/transient sensory conflict). Here we review viewpoint jitter effects on vection, postural sway, eye-movements and motion sickness, and relate them to recent behavioural and neurophysiological findings. It is shown that jitter research provides important insights into the role that sensory interaction plays in self-motion perception.</jats:p> </jats:sec> http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Seeing and Perceiving (continuation of Spatial Vision from 2010 and continued as Multisensory Research from 2013) Brill

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Publisher
Brill
Copyright
© 2011 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
ISSN
1878-4755
eISSN
1878-4763
DOI
10.1163/187847511X570817
pmid
21864457
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Abstract

<jats:sec><jats:title>Abstract</jats:title><jats:p>Sensory conflict has been used to explain the way we perceive and control our self-motion, as well as the aetiology of motion sickness. However, recent research on simulated viewpoint jitter provides a strong challenge to one core prediction of these theories — that increasing sensory conflict should always impair visually induced illusions of self-motion (known as vection). These studies show that jittering self-motion displays (thought to generate significant and sustained visual–vestibular conflict) actually induce superior vection to comparable non-jittering displays (thought to generate only minimal/transient sensory conflict). Here we review viewpoint jitter effects on vection, postural sway, eye-movements and motion sickness, and relate them to recent behavioural and neurophysiological findings. It is shown that jitter research provides important insights into the role that sensory interaction plays in self-motion perception.</jats:p> </jats:sec>

Journal

Seeing and Perceiving (continuation of Spatial Vision from 2010 and continued as Multisensory Research from 2013)Brill

Published: Jan 1, 2011

Keywords: POSTURAL SWAY; VECTION; MOTION SICKNESS; OPTIC FLOW; EYE-MOVEMENTS; SENSORY CONFLICT

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