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Vision serves us in many important ways, one of which is to convey to us a precise sense of our own motion in the world. In a racing car video game, for example, the view of the moving landscape through the virtual windscreen provides a compelling and accurate impression — or, rather, illusion — of the car’s motion, even though our vestibular senses are not stimulated by the visual display.
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Srinivasan, M.V. (2001). Visual Navigation: The Eyes Know Where Their Owner is Going. In: Zanker, J.M., Zeil, J. (eds) Motion Vision. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-56550-2_10
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