The Oscillating Potential Model of Visually Induced Vection

Authors

Takeharu Seno, Kyushu UniversityFollow
Ken-ichi Sawai, University of Tokyo
Hidetoshi Kanaya, Aichi Shukutoku University
Toshihiro Wakebe, Fukuoka Jo Gakuin University
Masaki Ogawa, Kyushu University
Yoshitaka Fujii, Ritsumeikan University
Stephen Palmisano, University of WollongongFollow

RIS ID

118421

Publication Details

Seno, T., Sawai, K., Kanaya, H., Wakebe, T., Ogawa, M., Fujii, Y. & Palmisano, S. (2017). The Oscillating Potential Model of Visually Induced Vection. i-Perception, 8 (6), 1-24.

Abstract

2017, The Author(s) 2017. Visually induced illusions of self-motion are often referred to as vection. This article developed and tested a model of responding to visually induced vection. We first constructed a mathematical model based on well-documented characteristics of vection and human behavioral responses to this illusion. We then conducted 10,000 virtual trial simulations using this Oscillating Potential Vection Model (OPVM). OPVM was used to generate simulated vection onset, duration, and magnitude responses for each of these trials. Finally, we compared the properties of OPVM's simulated vection responses with real responses obtained in seven different laboratory-based vection experiments. The OPVM output was found to compare favorably with the empirically obtained vection data.