Both Perception and Action Are Biased by Local Motion When Reporting the Location of a Moving Target

The Double-drift Illusion Affects Both the Perception of Where the Target IS and the Memory of Where it WAS.

“…Or it may be that the starting point of the trajectory is remembered correctly, but the perception of subsequent positions of the target become biased in the direction of the local motion (C). The results ofBlanc-Goldhammer et al (2016) suggest that although there is a small bias in the perceived location of the starting position, there is a much larger mislocalization of the perceived endpoint of the trajectory (D).…”