ArticleExperimental brain research2020
Gravity prior in human behaviour: a perceptual or semantic phenomenon?
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- Effect of gravity on temporal properties and target selection in vertical pointing movements: a comparison between objective and subjective measures.Experimental brain research · 2026Article
- Navigating Gravity: Competing Effects Result in Opposing Taxis for Different Janus Swimmers.Small (Weinheim an der Bergstrasse, Germany) · 2026Article
- Impaired visual perceptual accuracy in the upper visual field induces asymmetric performance in position estimation for falling and rising objects.Journal of vision · 2025Article
- Microgravity induces overconfidence in perceptual decision-making.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- Cognition in zero gravity: Effects of non-terrestrial gravity on human behaviour.Quarterly journal of experimental psychology (2006) · 2023Article
- Health Implications of Virtual Architecture: An Interdisciplinary Exploration of the Transferability of Findings from Neuroarchitecture.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2023Article
- Interception of vertically approaching objects: temporal recruitment of the internal model of gravity and contribution of optical information.Frontiers in physiology · 2023Article
- Perceptual Biases as the Side Effect of a Multisensory Adaptive System: Insights from Verticality and Self-Motion Perception.Vision (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Review
- Where is my hand in space? The internal model of gravity influences proprioception.Biology letters · 2021Article
- Perceptual judgments of duration of parabolic motions.Scientific reports · 2021Article
- Watching the Effects of Gravity. Vestibular Cortex and the Neural Representation of "Visual" Gravity.Frontiers in integrative neuroscience · 2021Review
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Abstract
Humans show a gravitational advantage in perception: we are more precise at judging the speed of downwards-moving than upwards-moving objects, indicating that gravitational acceleration is an internalised prior. However, it is unclear whether this gravity prior is based on purely perceptual cues or whether it can incorporate semantic knowledge. Previous research has used only objects which are known to comply with gravity, possibly confounding semantic and perceptual cues. Here we have addressed this question by asking participants to judge the speed of objects that typically move coherently with gravity (ball) or against it (rocket). Our results showed a perceptual advantage for falling stimuli, irrespective of object identity, suggesting the gravity prior is based on perceptual cues.
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