To which extent is attention necessary to estimate the time-to-contact (TTC) of a moving object, that is, determining when the object will reach a specific point? While numerous studies have aimed at determining the visual cues and gaze strategy that allow this estimation, little is known about if and how attention is involved or required in this process. To answer this question, we carried out an experiment in which the participants estimated the TTC of a moving ball, either alone (single-task condition) or concurrently with a Rapid Serial Visual Presentation task embedded within the ball (dual-task condition). The results showed that participants had a better estimation when attention was driven away from the TTC task. This suggests that drawing attention away from the TTC estimation limits cognitive interference, intrusion of knowledge, or expectations that significantly modify the visually-based TTC estimation, and argues in favor of a limited attention to correctly estimate the TTC.
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