Our latest paper on the eye movements evoked by second-order motion has just been accepted for publication in Experimental Brain Research. As well as often suffering space sickness, astronauts frequently get disoriented and have difficulty finding their way around even quite small environments. Mistakes in navigation within the international space station or in Mars-bound capsule could be costly. Peter Mente completed his Masters in my lab. Head tilt during driving.
Active motion reduces the perceived self displacement created by optic flow.
Three dimensional gaze movements evoked by passive rotation in cats. Commentary on Margolis on Cognitive-Illusion. Eds Vision and Action. Eds Psychophysical and computational mechanisms of visual coding. The coding of self motion.