Vection experiment using real world visual stimulus(Symposium 1 : Psychology of self-motion perception,The 31st Annual Meeting)

Abstract

In a history of vection studies, researchers have employed abstract visual patterns without particular meanings, e.g., random-dot pattern or striped pattern, as visual inducers, and investigated visual factors which can affect an occurrence and strength of vection. These studies have contributed to our better knowledge about perceptual mechanism underlying self-motion perception. Recently, technological advancement of equipment for image processing makes us possible to execute vection experiments with employing real world image (motion image of real environment shot by a moving camera) as visual stimulus. In this article, results of two vection experiments using real world stimulus were reported in order to discuss factors such as meanings or impressions of visual images which can be assessed only by using real world stimulus and possibly affect perceived self-motion.