Influence of uninformative visual cues on gravity perception. 2009

Aleksandra Kupferberg, and Stefan Glasauer, and Alexandra Stein, and Thomas Brandt
Institute for Clinical Neurosciences, Ludwig-Maximilians University, Munich, Germany. Alexandra.Kupferberg@gmx.de

The perception of the subjective direction of up (subjective visual zenith, SVZ) is influenced by various sensory cues, such as, vestibular and visual input, and by the idiotropic vector, which acts as prior information about self-orientation with respect to gravity. Here, we tested the influence of a subject-fixed visual cue, which was uninformative with respect to the direction of gravity, on SVZ settings in different pitch angles. Our results show that in most subjects the SVZ was influenced by the gravity-unrelated visual cue in a way suggesting that the cue's orientation was memorized in the first trial and used thereafter as reference.

UI MeSH Term Description Entries
D008297 Male Males
D011601 Psychophysics The science dealing with the correlation of the physical characteristics of a stimulus, e.g., frequency or intensity, with the response to the stimulus, in order to assess the psychologic factors involved in the relationship. Psychophysic
D005260 Female Females
D006112 Gravitation Acceleration produced by the mutual attraction of two masses, and of magnitude inversely proportional to the square of the distance between the two centers of mass. It is also the force imparted by the earth, moon, or a planet to an object near its surface. (From NASA Thesaurus, 1988) G Force,Gravistimulation,Gravity,Force, G,G Forces,Gravities
D006801 Humans Members of the species Homo sapiens. Homo sapiens,Man (Taxonomy),Human,Man, Modern,Modern Man
D000328 Adult A person having attained full growth or maturity. Adults are of 19 through 44 years of age. For a person between 19 and 24 years of age, YOUNG ADULT is available. Adults
D014796 Visual Perception The selecting and organizing of visual stimuli based on the individual's past experience. Visual Processing,Perception, Visual,Processing, Visual

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