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Hajnal, Alen; Abdul-Malak, Daniel T.; Durgin, Frank H. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 2011
Historically, the bodily senses have often been regarded as impeccable sources of spatial information and as being the teacher of vision. Here, the authors report that the haptic perception of slope by means of the foot is greatly exaggerated. The exaggeration is present in verbal as well as proprioceptive judgments. It is shown that this…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Tactual Perception, Spatial Ability, Blindness
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Leek, E. Charles; Reppa, Irene; Arguin, Martin – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 2005
This article examines how the human visual system represents the shapes of 3-dimensional (3D) objects. One long-standing hypothesis is that object shapes are represented in terms of volumetric component parts and their spatial configuration. This hypothesis is examined in 3 experiments using a whole-part matching paradigm in which participants…
Descriptors: Vision, Experiments, Cognitive Processes, Visual Perception