Mental Set Alters Visibility of Moving Targets
- 7 October 1977
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 198 (4312) , 60-62
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.897682
Abstract
An observer's knowledge of a moving target's direction and velocity enhances detectability. In addition, knowledge of direction and velocity speeds an observer's reaction to the motion of a previously stationary target. Since rival, nonperceptual hypotheses can be ruled out, these effects represent a direct modulation of vision by mental set.This publication has 7 references indexed in Scilit:
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