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Robust repulsion in perceived motion direction induced by visual working memory despite the demand characteristics

한국심리학회지: 인지 및 생물
약어 : 심리인생
2016 vol.28, no.3, pp.585 - 592
DOI : 10.22172/cogbio.2016.28.3.010
발행기관 : 한국인지및생물심리학회
연구분야 : 심리과학
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Motion repulsion is a visual illusion in which perception of moving dots is shifted away from its actual direction with the presence of another field of dots moving in a different direction. Kang et al. (2011) have demonstrated that the motion repulsion also occurs for the perceived field of dots when subjects hold another field of moving dots in working memory. Here, it was tested whether the perceptual shift induced by working memory is resistant to the demand characteristics, subjects’ tendency of conforming to the expected hypothesis of the experimenter. Subjects were tested over two separate days. On the first day of participation, they were presented with a sequence of two random-dot motion displays and performed a perceptual judgment task for the second motion display while holding the first display in their working memory. On the second day of participation, the same experiment was run; but the subjects were informed that their performance was inaccurate (inaccuracy instruction group) or judgments were shifted away from the direction of the other motion stimulus (repulsion instruction group). Despite these instructions, perceptual repulsion was robustly reproduced. This result indicates that our visual working memory representation robustly alters perception, providing converging evidence for a close relation between working memory and perception.

운동반발은 두 개의 무선점 운동(random-dot motion display)자극이 중첩되어 제시될 때 발생하는 착시현상으로, 지각된 운동방향은 실제 물리적인 운동방향에 비해 더 왜곡되어 보인다. Kang과 동료들(2011)은 이 착시현상을 이용해, 작업기억에 표상된 운동자극이 지각표상의 운동방향을 왜곡하는 결과를 보여주었다. 본 연구에서는 작업기억에 의한 지각표상의 왜곡이 피험자가 실험자의 의도에 맞게 실험결과를 내려는 경향, 즉 요구특성의 결과인지를 검토하였다. 피험자는 두 번에 걸처 실험에 참가하였는데, 두 번째 참가시, 처음 참가시 얻은 결과가 정확하지 못하거나, 실제 운동자극보다는 지각된 운동방향이 다른 운동자극의 방향의 반대방향으로 왜곡되었음을 언급하고, 보다 정확한 반응을 요구하였다. 그럼에도 불구하고, 운동반발은 효과는 사라지지 않았다. 이는 작업기억과 지각표상이 상호작용함을 보여주는 선행연구에 수렴적인 증거를 제시하며, 그 상호작용에 있어 하향식 정보처리 기제의 한계를 보여준다.

Memory, Perception, Motion Repulsion, Demand Characteristics
작업기억, 지각표상, 운동반발, 요구특성

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