“…Although we currently cannot draw general conclusions about the action hypothesis, our results exhibit a pattern consistent with those of prior research, which shows that active perceptual judgment tasks are less susceptible to illusions than are tasks that are passive and are typically thought of as purely perceptual (e.g., Carey, 2001;Post & Welch, 1996). Such findings are not surprising in light of the fact that humans evolved as active, mobile creatures and employ a variety of navigation (Gibson, 1966(Gibson, , 1979 and interception (Sugar, McBeath, & Wang, 2006) strategies.…”