Volume 8, Number 2, Article 7, Pages 1-10 doi:10.1167/8.2.7 http://journalofvision.org/8/2/7/ ISSN 1534-7362
If I saw it, it probably wasn't far from where I was looking
Eli Brenner
Faculty of Human Movement Sciences, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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Pascal Mamassian
CNRS, LPP Université Paris Descartes, Paris, France
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Jeroen B. J. Smeets
Faculty of Human Movement Sciences, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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Abstract

People are most likely to see something if their gaze is directed at it. Thus if they saw something they may be biased towards believing that they had been looking at it. In order to examine whether this is so we asked participants where a target that jumped to a new position every 250 ms had been at a moment indicated by a flash or a tone. The jumping introduced uncertainty about where the target was at the indicated moment, giving room for biases to be expressed. Participants showed a clear preference to select positions that were nearer to where they were looking.

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Received July 13, 2007; published February 21, 2008
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Brenner, E., Mamassian, P., & Smeets, J. B. J. (2008). If I saw it, it probably wasn't far from where I was looking. Journal of Vision, 8(2):7, 1-10, http://journalofvision.org/8/2/7/, doi:10.1167/8.2.7.
Keywords
flash lag, temporal resolution, spatial vision, localisation
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