Representational momentum, centripetal force, and curvilinear impetus.

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Author	Hubbard, Timothy L.
Copyright Year	1996
Abstract	In 3 experiments, observers witnessed a target moving along a circular orbit and indicated the location at which the target vanished. The judged vanishing point was displaced forward in the direction of implied momentum and inward in the direction of implied centripetal force. In general, increases in either the angular velocity of the target or the radius length of the orbit increased the magnitude of forward displacement. If both angular velocity and radius length were varied, then increases in either angular velocity or radius length also increased the magnitude of inward displacement. The displacement patterns were consistent with hypotheses that analogues of momentum and centripetal force were incorporated into the representational system. A framework is proposed that accounts for (a) the forward and inward displacements and (b) naive-physics data on the spiral tube problem previously interpreted as suggesting a belief in a naive curvilinear-impetus principle.
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DOI	10.1037//0278-7393.22.4.1049
PubMed reference number	8708601
Journal	Medline
Volume Number	22
Issue Number	4
Alternate Webpage(s)	http://timothyhubbard.net/hubbard_JEPLMC96.pdf
Alternate Webpage(s)	https://doi.org/10.1037/%2F0278-7393.22.4.1049
Journal	Journal of experimental psychology. Learning, memory, and cognition
Language	English
Access Restriction	Open
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article