Motion Perception

Motion perception is our ability to perceive and identify motion of objects.  This is a photo of a ball being thrown at me as I am laying on a blanket in the grass. This is a simple but effective way of representing motion perception; as the ball became bigger, I could perceive that it was moving toward me and therefore catch it. I had less time to react to this situation than I would if the ball were a car.  Because of our motion perception, larger objects seem to move at a slower rate than smaller objects.