u/oing9179

I've talked about whether movement reading is real or not in my previous post.
This video proves my point: I'm always tracking what the target was at ~300ms ago.

I wanted to believe that movement reading exists but it just doesn't make any sense: how is it even possible to "read" its movement from just a few frames of picture? The cerebellum does that quite well because it's built for that, but by the time the signal from cerebellum transferred to the conscious mind and the decision signal sent to the arm to move the arm it's already too late.

Let's say a bot is moving from left to right with its speed of a sine() function, the contestant tries his/her best to keep the crosshair on the target(the bot), the reaction time of this contestant is 300ms.

The bot starts to accelerate, it took 300ms for the contestant to realize the bot is accelerating and reacting to it by moving the mouse a little bit faster. This means for a brief moment the crosshair lags behind the target before it catches up with the target. Then the bot starts to decelerate, it again took 300ms for the contestant to realize it and act on it. This means for a brief moment the crosshair overshoots on the target's path.

One aspect of movement reading is about reading target's acceleration(like what Viscose says in her video). If it takes a contestant 300ms to react to an acceleration, how can the contestant's crosshair be positioned on the target instead of what the target was at 300ms ago? If movement reading is reacting to an acceleration, isn't it just reacting?