Action Perception: Seeing the World through a Moving Body

“Seeing” the Difference: The Importance of Visibility and Action as a Mark of “Authenticity” in Co-production; Comment on “Collaboration and Co-production of Knowledge in Healthcare: Opportunities and Challenges”

The Rycroft-Malone paper states that co-production relies on ‘authentic’ collaboration as a context for action. Our commentary supports and extends this assertion. We suggest that ‘authentic’ co-production involves processes where participants can ‘see’ the difference that they have made within the project and beyond. We provide examples including: the use of design in health projects which see...

Seeing the Body Distorts Tactile Size Perception 1 RUNNING HEAD: Seeing the Body Distorts Tactile Size Perception Seeing the Body Distorts Tactile Size Perception

Illusory jitter in a static stimulus surrounded by a synchronously flickering pattern

The eyes are always moving even during fixation, making the retinal image move concomitantly. While these motions activate early visual stages, they are excluded from one's perception. A striking illusion reported here renders them visible: a static pattern surrounded by a synchronously flickering pattern appears to move coherently in random directions. There was a positive correlation between ...

Only self-generated actions create sensori-motor systems in the developing brain.

Previous research shows that sensory and motor systems interact during perception, but how these connections among systems are created during development is unknown. The current work exposes young children to novel 'verbs' and objects through either (a) actively exploring the objects or (b) by seeing an experimenter interact with the objects. Results demonstrate that the motor system is recruit...

The Vanishing Ball Illusion: A new perspective on the perception of dynamic events.

Our perceptual experience is largely based on prediction, and as such can be influenced by knowledge of forthcoming events. This susceptibility is commonly exploited by magicians. In the Vanishing Ball Illusion, for example, a magician tosses a ball in the air a few times and then pretends to throw the ball again, whilst secretly concealing it in his hand. Most people claim to see the ball movi...