Mental Imagery of Free Fall: Does a Falling Apple Accelerate in Our Minds?

Abstract The present study examined whether people’s mental imagery of falling objects includes the acceleration due to earth’s gravitational force. To investigate this question, we used two different tasks, a height estimation and fall-time task. In task, participants were presented with free-fall times had indicate corresponding heights from which object fell ground. produce fall time associated free falls heights. contrast law fall, our results are more consistent linear than an accelerated relationship between time. Thus, suggest that object’s does not represent gravity.