Judging the Center of Human Figures: Evidence for Dynamic Perception

In our first experiment we presented outlines of human figures in v arious poses to a group of undergraduate psychology majors. We asked them to indicate where the perceived centers of the figures were by placing a s mall dot. The stimuli fell into two major categories. The first group was symmetric, with both arms held in equivalent positions on both sides of the body. The second group was asymmetric where an arm or an arm and a leg were...