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Annual Review of Vision Science

Volume 11, 2025

Visual Perception of Self-Motion

  • Li Li1,2,3
  • 1Division of Arts and Science, New York University Shanghai, Shanghai, China; email: [email protected] 2New York University-East China Normal University Institute of Brain and Cognitive Science, New York University Shanghai, Shanghai, China 3Key Laboratory of Brain Functional Genomics, School of Psychology and Cognitive Science, East China Normal University, Shanghai, China
  • Vol. 11:447-474 (Volume publication date September 2025)
  • First published as a Review in Advance on August 01, 2025
  • Copyright © 2025 by the author(s).
    This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. See credit lines of images or other third-party material in this article for license information.

Abstract

Visual perception of self-motion is essential for navigation and environmental interaction. This review examines the mechanisms by which we perceive self-motion, highlighting recent progress and significant findings. It first evaluates optic flow and its critical role in the perception of self-motion, then considers nonflow visual cues that contribute to this process. Key aspects of self-motion perception are discussed, including the perception of instantaneous direction (i.e., heading) and future trajectory (i.e., path) of self-motion. It then addresses two closely linked topics: the perception of independent object motion during self-motion and the perception of heading with independent object motion. While these processes occur concurrently, research indicates that they involve separate perceptual mechanisms. In light of recent neurophysiological findings, potential neural mechanisms underlying these two processes are proposed. Finally, it discusses how studies often conflate unreal optic flow with real optic flow, raising questions for future research to better understand how the brain processes optic flow for the perception of self-motion.

Keyword(s): flow parsing, heading, MST, optic flow, path, self-motion
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