Experimental psychology research on interactions of causality perception and action

本研究探讨了观察运动和静止物体之间的视觉碰撞引起的力的印象是否来自纯粹的视觉过程，或者它是通过激活作用于物体的经验的记忆痕迹而产生的。一系列的实验表明，观察的视觉碰撞促进手的反应，其方向是由一个静止的物体提供的阻力的方向一致的运动物体，碰撞的静止物体相比，与另一只手的方向是一致的运动方向（阻力兼容性效果）的反应。相反，与两个不同的手的反应，反应与两个不同的手指，同一只手没有表现出电阻兼容性的效果。此外，当运动物体的接触和自身手指与静止物体的接触同时发生时，参与者将静止物体的运动起始归因于伴随触觉的手指触摸，而不是运动物体。结果表明，视觉碰撞的感知不是纯粹的视觉。相反，它是通过激活作用于物体的触觉体验的记忆痕迹而产生的。

The present study investigated whether an impression of force evoked in observation of a visual collision between motion and stationary objects arises from purely visual process or it arises by activating memory traces of experiences of acting on an object. A series of experiments showed that observation of the visual collision facilitated hand responses whose direction was consistent with the direction of resistance offered by a stationary object to a motion object that collided with the stationary object compared to the responses with the other hand whose direction was consistent with the motion direction(resistance-compatibility effect). In contrast to responses with the two different hands, responses with the two different fingers of the same hand did not show the resistance-compatibility effect. Moreover, when the contacts of motion object and self-finger touch with the stationary object co-occurred, participants attributed the motion onset of the stationary object to the finger touch that accompanied haptic sense rather than to the motion object. The results indicated that the perception of visual collision was not purely visual. Instead, it arises by activating memory traces of haptic experiences of acting on an object.