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A visual bar alternately presented in vertical and horizontal orientations appeared to rotate 90° through one of two pairs of opposite quadrants. Subjects judged whether a probe dot, interjected at some delay and angular deviation from the vertical bar, appeared before or after the bar “passed through” the corresponding angular orientation. When the motion was perceived in the probed quadrant, percent “before” responses dropped abruptly from near 100% to near 0% as delay increased, and the drop occurred at longer delays for probes at larger angular deviations. Under physically identical conditions, when the motion was perceived in an unprobed quadrant, percent “before” responses varied much less with delay and insignificantly with angular position. The accuracy of the judgments in the first case suggests the internal generation of an ordered sequence of intermediate representations during each apparent rotation.
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This work was supported by National Science Foundation Grant BNS-75-02806 to the second author.
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Robins, C., Shepard, R.N. Spatio-temporal probing of apparent rotational movement. Perception & Psychophysics 22, 12–18 (1977). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03206075
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