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Chen M J, Holman J, 1989, "Emergence of drawing devices for total and partial occlusion: a longitudinal study" Perception 18(4) 445 – 455
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Emergence of drawing devices for total and partial occlusion: a longitudinal study

May Jane Chen, Jacqui Holman

Received 15 August 1987, in revised form 7 March 1988

Abstract. When multiple objects rotate in depth, they are frequently perceived to rotate in the same direction even when perspective information signals counterrotation. Three experiments are reported on this tendency to recover the rotation directions of multiple objects in a nonindependent fashion (termed rotational linkage). Rotational linkage was strongly affected by slant in depth of the objects, image perspective, and relative starting phase of the objects. Linkage was found not to vary as a function of the relative rotation speed of the objects or the relative alignment of their rotation axes. Rotational linkage is interpreted as a tendency of the visual system to assign signed depths to objects based on a communality of image point direction.

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