People cannot Locate the Projection of an Object on the Surface of a Mirror

Autor/in	Lawson, Rebecca
Titel	People cannot Locate the Projection of an Object on the Surface of a Mirror
Quelle	In: Cognition, 115 (2010) 2, S.336-342 (7 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0010-0277
DOI	10.1016/j.cognition.2009.12.013
Schlagwörter	Schemata (Cognition); Evaluation Methods; Feedback (Response); Experiments; Observation; Memory + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Cognition; Schema; Kognition; Erprobung; Beobachtung; Gedächtnis
Abstract	People cannot veridically perceive reflections of objects as projections on the surface of mirrors. People tried to locate an object's projection on a flat mirror. The observer stood at the opposite end of a long mirror to the experimenter. They were told to remember the location of the projection of the experimenter's face. The experimenter then moved and the observer stuck a card onto the mirror at this remembered location. The actual location was midway along the mirror between the experimenter and the observer. However, cards were placed much too close to the experimenter. Repeated testing with feedback reduced, but did not eliminate, errors. Our perception of mirrors is dominated by what appears to be visible "through" the mirror, not what is projected onto its surface. In contrast, if the experimenter stuck a card onto the mirror then removed it, observers remembered this physically-specified location accurately. (Contains 4 figures.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10