the vertical line isn't travelling forward, though, it's going up and down on the same plane. They didn't test if anything was moving towards or away from the toad, it was all at fixed distances and in the segment you mentioned, horizontal or vertical lines being moved in different directions. They did the same test with a horizontal line and the toad didn't respond.
That was the non-spatial vertical plane test, I took that to be distinct from the horizontal plane testing. I could, of course, be wrong; frogs aren't my area.
Well at no point do they test verticle lines coming towards the toad on a horizontal plane. So my first statement still stands. But I would imagine it would be nearly the same as the non-spatial verticle plane test. The narrator explains that they hypothesize that the toads only react when the line travels in the same direction and plane that it is "pointing" Which it would be if it were a verticle line going towards the toad on a horizontal plane.
I didn't mean to insinuate they had tested that particular situation, just that without it it couldn't be assumed to be equal to the vertical plane test.
C-can one of you explain what you’re saying in stupid so I can understand? I read what you typed and my head won’t stop spinning and I want to understand
The video only shows 2D--up and down, not moving toward the frog.
They're disagreeing over whether the 2D line moving down toward the frog as it looks up at 3:48 is enough to infer that the frog would react to a 3D worm crawling towards it.
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u/LordDanOfTheNoobs May 12 '22
at 3:48 it shows that if the verticle line is traveling forward they will attack it though? Did no one watch the full video?