ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on change and movement that necessarily leads to a consideration of the relationship between perception and action. It is concerned with the perception of movement. The planning–control model distinguishes between a slow planning system used mostly before the initiation of movement and a fast control system used during movement execution. The chapter also focuses on the perception of human motion. There are many similarities between the perception of human motion and animal motion. The chapter shows that a changing visual environment provides valuable information. Change blindness and inattentional blindness are similar in that both involve a failure to detect some visual event that appears in plain sight. Attention is the single most important factor determining whether inattentional and change blindness occur. The visual system's emphasis on continuous, stable perception probably plays a part in making us susceptible to change blindness.
