(Don’t) look where you’re going: Evidence for a travel direction signal in humans that is independent of head direction
Published in Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 2023
We often assume that travel direction is redundant with head direction, but from first principles these two factors provide differing spatial information. Although head direction has been found to be a fundamental component of human navigation, it is unclear how self-motion signals for travel direction contribute to forming a travel trajectory. Employing a novel motion adaptation paradigm from visual neuroscience designed to preclude a contribution of head direction, we found high-level aftereffects of perceived travel direction, indicating that travel direction is a fundamental component of human navigation.
Recommended citation: Cheng, Y., Ling, S., Stern, C. E., Huang, A., & Chrastil, E. R. (2023). (Don’t) look where you’re going: Evidence for a travel direction signal in humans that is independent of head direction. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General (in press).