Citation

Blättler C, Ferrari V, Didierjean A, Marmèche E. J. Exp. Psychol. Hum. Percept. Perform. 2011; 37(5): 1569-1577.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2011, American Psychological Association)

DOI

10.1037/a0023512

PMID

21517207

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of expertise on motion anticipation. We conducted 2 experiments in which novices and expert pilots viewed simulated aircraft landing scenes. The scenes were interrupted by the display of a black screen and then started again after a forward or backward shift. The participant's task was to determine whether the moving scene had been shifted forward or backward. A forward misjudgment of the final position of the moving scene was interpreted as a representational momentum (RM) effect. Experiment 1 showed that an RM effect was detected only for experts. The lack of motion anticipation on the part of novices is a surprising result for the RM literature. It could be related to scene unfamiliarity, encoding time, or shift size. Experiment 2 was run with novices only. It was aimed at testing the potential impact of 2 factors on the RM effect: scene encoding time and shift size. As a whole, the results showed that encoding time and shift size are important factors in anticipation processes in realistic dynamic situations. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2011 APA, all rights reserved).

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