1978 volume 7(3) pages 247 – 260
doi:10.1068/p070247

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Weir S, 1978, "The perception of motion: Michotte revisited" Perception 7(3) 247 – 260
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The perception of motion: Michotte revisited

Sylvia Weir

Received 1 January 1977, in revised form 17 November 1977

Abstract. This paper extends the range of artificial-intelligence vision programs to the domain of moving objects, using the work of Michotte as a source of data for a computer program which purports to 'see' the action types he examined. Given the thesis that internal descriptions of a nonlinguistic type provide the basis for a constructive, knowledge-based theory of perception, the properties of a symbol-manipulating system capable of supporting this are explored as a challenge to the Michotte notion of "direct perception without interpretation".

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