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Freier, Livia; Mason, Luke; Bremner, Andrew J. – Developmental Psychology, 2016
An ability to perceive tactile and visual stimuli in a common spatial frame of reference is a crucial ingredient in forming a representation of one's own body and the interface between bodily and external space. In this study, the authors investigated young infants' abilities to perceive colocation between tactile and visual stimuli presented on…
Descriptors: Visual Perception, Tactual Perception, Visual Stimuli, Infants
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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