A study is reported of the effect of dynamic occlusion that arises during locomotion over corrugated surfaces and its facilitating role on the control of locomotion, especially in cluttered environments. Surfaces varied in degree of corrugation and type of texture. Heading accuracy was assessed by having participants perform an active steering task. Results demonstrated the advantage of texture-mapped image surfaces over discrete element surfaces in the corrugated conditions. Observers appear to exploit accretion and deletion of optical texture at the occluding edge to extract and use information about heading direction for the control of movements in cluttered environments.
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