Abstract
According to the action-specific perception account, perception is a function of optical information and the perceiver’s ability to perform the intended action. While most of the evidence for the action-specific perception account is on spatial perception, in the current experiments we examined similar effects in the perception of speed. Tennis players reproduced the time the ball traveled from the feeder machine to when they hit it. The players judged the ball to be moving faster on trials when they hit the ball out-of-bounds than on trials where they successfully hit the ball in-bounds. Follow-up experiments in the laboratory showed that participants judged virtual balls to be moving slower when they played with a bigger paddle in a modified version of Pong. These studies suggest that performance and task ease influence perceived speed.
Date of this Version
2010
DOI
10.1068/p6699
Recommended Citation
Witt, Jessica and Sugovic, Mila, "Performance and Ease Influence Perceived Speed." (2010). Department of Psychological Sciences Faculty Publications. Paper 55.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1068/p6699
Comments
Weiner (2010). The definitive, peer-reviewed and edited version of this article is published in Perception, 39, 10, 1341-1353, 2010, 10.1068/p6699