Viewing Perspective Influences What We See
What does bear see over the mountain? What we perceive doesn't necessarily correspond with physical measurement of reality. Our actions are guided by what we perceive and not typically by what can be measured to exist or often by what we know. In this demonstration, The bear will see one ball bouncing across the screen from the first viewing perspective. After the bear goes over the mountain, the bear will see what produced the appearance of a single ball: two balls moving in circles! Below, one sequence is presented four times. The only difference in the presentations is that the mountain views occlude half of the trajectories of the bluish spheres in the first sequence and not in the second. The mountains transparently cover the trajectories in the third sequence and not in the fourth. Even after you know that the spherical depictions are two in number and revolve in two circular patterns, a single sphere appears to move along a scalloped trajectory when the mountains return to occlude half of the trajectories. That your perception is determined by the immediate stimulation, has implications for understanding vision. The figure below shows the perceived trajectories, occlusion, and circular physical trajectories.  |