Psychology

Step onto a stopped escalator and your body still braces for a ride

People who repeatedly ride a moving platform, then step onto the same platform stationary, stumble and wobble even though they know full well it isn't moving. Raymond Reynolds and Adolfo Bronstein documented this 'broken escalator' aftereffect in 2003: automatic motor learning overrides conscious knowledge.

Raymond F. Reynolds and Adolfo M. Bronstein, The Broken Escalator Phenomenon — Experimental Brain Research, vol. 151, 2003

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