(I read the experiments and only skimmed through the rest.) I feel fairly confident I would’ve predicted the results of the first experiment, despite the possibility of hindsight bias; I predicted what I will see before reading the results of the second one (though the results were in my vision field). I think object permanence and movement is much more important than appearance after being occluded. I.e., you might expect the object to be somewhere, you might have your eyes follow an object, and when it’s not where it should be, you get some error, but you still look there. I feel less certain what happens if you never see objects moving; following things with your sight is probably not hardwired with no data; but if you see a lot of moving objects, I think you look where you expect it to be, even if it’s not there.
An experiment that I’d like to see would be:
Object A moves behind screen 1; object B moves from screen 1 and behind screen 2; the chick is only interested in object A; where does it look? My prediction (feels obvious!): it will look on screen 2 more than if there’s no object B.
(I read the experiments and only skimmed through the rest.) I feel fairly confident I would’ve predicted the results of the first experiment, despite the possibility of hindsight bias; I predicted what I will see before reading the results of the second one (though the results were in my vision field). I think object permanence and movement is much more important than appearance after being occluded. I.e., you might expect the object to be somewhere, you might have your eyes follow an object, and when it’s not where it should be, you get some error, but you still look there. I feel less certain what happens if you never see objects moving; following things with your sight is probably not hardwired with no data; but if you see a lot of moving objects, I think you look where you expect it to be, even if it’s not there.
An experiment that I’d like to see would be:
Object A moves behind screen 1; object B moves from screen 1 and behind screen 2; the chick is only interested in object A; where does it look? My prediction (feels obvious!): it will look on screen 2 more than if there’s no object B.