Human Heading Perception Based on Form and Motion Combination

This paper presents a study on human perception of the heading on the base of motion and form visual cues integration. The authors examine how human age influences this process. Because the visual stimuli are in general uncertain, or in some cases even conflicting, the process of combination is estimated on the base on the well known Normalized Conjunctive Consensus fusion rule, as well as on the base of the more efficient Dezert-Smarandache Theory (DSmT) of plausible and paradoxical reasoning, and more precisely on the probabilistic Proportional Conflict Redistribution rule no.5 defined within it. The main goal is focused on how these fusion rules succeed to model consistent and adequate predictions about both individuals’ behavior, and age-contingent groups of individuals 1 .