Confusion at the Space Agency

The Canadian Space Agency Space Learning Grants

forwarded to the International Astronautical Federation (IAF) – the organization responsible for the IAC for final selection. In 2011, close to 60 abstracts were submitted for consideration to be included at the congress in Cape Town, South Africa, with 21 Canadian students ultimately being selected for funding by the Canadian Space Agency to share their work with the conference delegation of i...

European Space Agency

1 The CMOD4 model 1.1: The scatterometer................................................................1 1.2: The CMOD4 model..............................................................4 2 The tropical cyclone.................................................................19 3 Experiments 3.1: Premise............................................................................23 3.2: Theoret...

Confusion of space and time in the flash-lag effect.

The apparent lagging of a short flash in the relation to a moving object, the flash-lag effect (FLE), has so far been measured mainly in terms of illusory spatial offset. We propose a method of measuring the perceived temporal asynchrony of the FLE separately from its perceived spatial offset. We presented a moving stimulus that changed its colour at a certain moment. The observer indicated, in...

The Deep Questions: Structure/agency, Micro/macro and Time/space

Pulling the finger off disrupts agency, embodiment and peripersonal space.

For this experiment a visual illusion was created in which the participant's finger looked and felt as though it was being stretched to twice its normal length until it snapped and the tip came off. It was then stabbed with virtual weapons while skin conductance was measured. Sometimes the fingertip moved under the participant's own control and sometimes it moved independently. Curiously, detac...