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In visual perception complex movements are usually split up into components — e.g., in such a way that a moving reference system is applied, to which partial movements can be related. In the following experiment a perceptual vector analysis of this kind was investigated. It was shown that 1) a radial translatory movement (relative component) can be isolated perceptually from a rotatory movement (global component) and that 2) the precision of this decomposition of the complex movement is dependent on the strength at which the rotating reference system is anchored perceptually.
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The authors wish to thank M. Rauterberg for collecting the experimental data
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Kalveram, K.T., Ritter, M. The formation of reference systems in visual motion perception. Psychol. Res 40, 397–405 (1979). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00309419
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00309419