Intuitive physical reasoning about objects’ masses transfers to a visuomotor decision task consistent with Newtonian physics
Fig 3
Task performance and pucks’ traveled distance for three phases of experiment.
(A) Participants’ performance by experimental phase as quantified by pucks’ average absolute error in final position. The number of the ring at which the center of the puck stopped was used for coding performance, e.g. 1 and 3 in the shown cases. (B) Aggregated final positions of pucks versus initial distance of pucks to target. Phases of the experiment are separated by columns and conditions are separated by rows. The line of equality representing final positions prescribed by the Newtonian model with perfect knowledge of all parameters is shown in blue.