Orgs, Guido and Haggard, Patrick. 2011. Temporal binding during apparent movement of the human body. Visual Cognition, 19(7), pp. 833-845. ISSN 1350-6285 [Article]

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Alternating between static images of human bodies with an appropriate interstimulus interval (ISI) produces apparent biological motion. Here we investigate links between apparent biological motion and time perception. We presented two pictures of the initial and final positions of a human movement separated by six different ISIs. The shortest movement path between two positions was always biomechanically impossible. Participants performed two tasks: In an explicit task, participants judged whether they saw the longer, feasible movement path between the two postures, or the shorter, biomechanically impossible path. In an implicit task, participants judged the duration of a white square surrounding the picture sequence. At longer ISIs participants were more likely to see a longer, feasible movement path (explicit task) and underestimated the duration of body picture pairs, compared to trials displaying degraded body pictures (implicit task). We argue that perceiving apparent biological motion involves temporal binding of two static pictures into a continuous movement. Such temporal binding may be mediated by a top-down mechanism that produces a percept of biological motion in the absence of any retinal motion.

Item Type:	Article
Identification Number (DOI):	https://doi.org/10.1080/13506285.2011.598481
Additional Information:	This study was supported by grants from the Leverhulme Trust and the Experimental Psychology Society to PH, and a research fellowship of the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) to GO. PH was additionally supported by a Leverhulme Trust Major Research Fellowship.
Keywords:	Apparent biological motion, Dance, Human body, Temporal binding, Time perception
Departments, Centres and Research Units:	Psychology
Dates:	Date Event 2011 Published
Item ID:	18489
Date Deposited:	03 Jun 2016 13:13
Last Modified:	04 Jul 2017 10:24
Peer Reviewed:	Yes, this version has been peer-reviewed.
URI:	https://research.gold.ac.uk/id/eprint/18489

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