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- Autokinetic_effect abstract "The autokinetic effect (also referred to as autokinesis) is a phenomenon of visual perception in which a stationary, small point of light in an otherwise dark or featureless environment appears to move. It was first recorded by a Russian officer keeping watch who observed illusory movement of a star near the horizon. It presumably occurs because motion perception is always relative to some reference point. In darkness or in a featureless environment there is no reference point, so the movement of the single point is undefined. The direction of the movements does not appear to be correlated with the involuntary eye movements, but may be determined by errors between eye position and that specified by efference copy of the movement signals sent to the extraocular muscles.The amplitude of the movements is also undefined. Individual observers set their own frames of reference to judge amplitude (and possibly direction). Because the phenomenon is labile, it has been used to show the effects of social influence or suggestion on judgements. For example, if an observer who would otherwise say the light is moving one foot overhears another observer say the light is moving one yard then the first observer will report that the light moved one yard. Discovery of the influence of suggestion on the autokinetic effect is often attributed to Sherif (1935), but it was recorded by Adams (1912), if not others.Alexander von Humboldt observed the phenomenon in 1799 while looking at stars with the naked eye, but thought it was a real movement of the stars. Thus he named them \"Sternschwanken\" i.e. \"Swinging Stars\". It was not until 1857 that G. Schweitzer (Schweitzer, 1857), an early German psychologist, discovered that it was a subjective phenomenon. The US Navy started studying this in 1945 in order to explain vertigo experiences related by pilots. Today this \"kinetic illusion\" is categorized as a vestibular-induced illusion, see vestibular system.Many sightings of UFOs have also been attributed to the autokinetic effect's action on looking at stars or planets.".
- Autokinetic_effect wikiPageExternalLink afman11-217v1.pdf.
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- Autokinetic_effect wikiPageWikiLink 1st_Reconnaissance_Battalion.
- Autokinetic_effect wikiPageWikiLink Aerial_refueling.
- Autokinetic_effect wikiPageWikiLink Alexander_von_Humboldt.
- Autokinetic_effect wikiPageWikiLink Category:Illusions.
- Autokinetic_effect wikiPageWikiLink Category:Optical_illusions.
- Autokinetic_effect wikiPageWikiLink Category:Vision.
- Autokinetic_effect wikiPageWikiLink Efference_copy.
- Autokinetic_effect wikiPageWikiLink Evan_Wright.
- Autokinetic_effect wikiPageWikiLink Extraocular_muscles.
- Autokinetic_effect wikiPageWikiLink Eye_movement.
- Autokinetic_effect wikiPageWikiLink Flight_instruments.
- Autokinetic_effect wikiPageWikiLink Foo_fighter.
- Autokinetic_effect wikiPageWikiLink G._Schweitzer.
- Autokinetic_effect wikiPageWikiLink Generation_Kill.
- Autokinetic_effect wikiPageWikiLink Generation_Kill_(miniseries).
- Autokinetic_effect wikiPageWikiLink H._G._Wells.
- Autokinetic_effect wikiPageWikiLink Henry_Foster_Adams.
- Autokinetic_effect wikiPageWikiLink Identification_studies_of_UFOs.
- Autokinetic_effect wikiPageWikiLink Motion_(physics).
- Autokinetic_effect wikiPageWikiLink Muzafer_Sherif.
- Autokinetic_effect wikiPageWikiLink Sensory_illusions_in_aviation.
- Autokinetic_effect wikiPageWikiLink Social_influence.
- Autokinetic_effect wikiPageWikiLink Spatial_disorientation.
- Autokinetic_effect wikiPageWikiLink Suggestion.
- Autokinetic_effect wikiPageWikiLink The_War_of_the_Worlds.
- Autokinetic_effect wikiPageWikiLink Theory_of_relativity.
- Autokinetic_effect wikiPageWikiLink Unidentified_flying_object.
- Autokinetic_effect wikiPageWikiLink Vertigo.
- Autokinetic_effect wikiPageWikiLink Vestibular_system.
- Autokinetic_effect wikiPageWikiLink Visual_perception.
- Autokinetic_effect wikiPageWikiLinkText "Autokinetic effect".
- Autokinetic_effect wikiPageWikiLinkText "Sherif's autokinetic experiment".
- Autokinetic_effect wikiPageWikiLinkText "autokinetic effect".
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- Autokinetic_effect subject Category:Illusions.
- Autokinetic_effect subject Category:Optical_illusions.
- Autokinetic_effect subject Category:Vision.
- Autokinetic_effect hypernym Phenomenon.
- Autokinetic_effect type Disease.
- Autokinetic_effect type Illusion.
- Autokinetic_effect comment "The autokinetic effect (also referred to as autokinesis) is a phenomenon of visual perception in which a stationary, small point of light in an otherwise dark or featureless environment appears to move. It was first recorded by a Russian officer keeping watch who observed illusory movement of a star near the horizon. It presumably occurs because motion perception is always relative to some reference point.".
- Autokinetic_effect label "Autokinetic effect".
- Autokinetic_effect sameAs Q782462.
- Autokinetic_effect sameAs Autokinetischer_Effekt.
- Autokinetic_effect sameAs Experimento_de_Sherif.
- Autokinetic_effect sameAs Autokinetikus_hatás.
- Autokinetic_effect sameAs Autokinetisch_effect.
- Autokinetic_effect sameAs Efekt_autokinetyczny.
- Autokinetic_effect sameAs m.03_6rf.
- Autokinetic_effect sameAs Autokinetisk_effekt.
- Autokinetic_effect sameAs Q782462.
- Autokinetic_effect wasDerivedFrom Autokinetic_effect?oldid=683678263.
- Autokinetic_effect isPrimaryTopicOf Autokinetic_effect.