Coming to grips with weight perception: Effects of grasp configuration on perceived heaviness

Perception and Psychophysics

Volumn 62, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 1204-1219

  Flanagan, J Randall ^a   Bandomir, Christina A ^a  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PERCEPTION; PHYSIOLOGY; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, THEORETICAL; WEIGHT PERCEPTION;

EID: 0034242117     PISSN: 00315117     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BF03212123     Document Type: Article

References (48)

1. AMAZEEN, E. L. (1997). The effects of volume on perceived heaviness by dynamic touch: With and without vision. Ecological Psychology, 9, 245-263.
2. AMAZEEN, E. L., & TURVEY, M. T. (1996). Weight perception and the haptic size-weight illusion are functions of the inertia tensor. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception & Performance, 22, 213-232.
3. BRODIE, E. E., & ROSS H. E. (1984). Sensorimotor mechanisms in weight discrimination. Perception & Psychophysics, 36, 477-481.
4. CAFARELLI, E. W., & BIGLAND-RITCHIE, B. (1979). Sensation of static force in muscles of different length. Experimental Neurology, 65, 511-525.
5. CHARPENTIER, A. (1891). Analyse expérimentale des quelques éléments de la sensation de poids [Experimental study of some aspects of weight perception]. Archives de Physiologie Normales et Pathologiques, 3, 122-135.
6. DE CAMP, J. E. (1917). The influence of color on apparent weight: A preliminary study. Journal of Experimental Psychology, 62, 347-370.
7. EDIN, B. B., & JOHANSSON, N. (1995). Skin strain patterns provide kinaesthetic information to the human central nervous system. Journal of Physiology, 287, 243-251.
8. EDIN, B. B., WESTLING, G., & JOHANSSON, R. S. (1992). Independent control of human finger-tip forces at individual digits during precision lifting. Journal of Physiology, 450, 547-564.
9. ELLIS, R. R., & LEDERMAN, S. J. (1993). The role of haptic versus visual volume cues in the size-weight illusion. Perception & Psychophysics, 53, 315-324.
10. FLANAGAN, J. R., & WING, A. M. (1993). Modulation of grip force with load force during point-to-point arm movements. Experimental Brain Research, 95, 131-143.
11. FLANAGAN, J. R., & WING, A. M. (1995). The stability of precision grip force during cyclic arm movements with a hand-held load. Experimental Brain Research, 105, 455-464
12. FLANAGAN, J. R., & WING, A. M. (1997). Effects of surface texture and grip force on the discrimination of hand-held loads. Perception & Psychophysics, 59, 111-118.
13. FLANAGAN, J. R., WING, A. M., ALLISON, S., & SPENCELY, A. (1995). Effects of surface texture on weight perception when lifting objects with a precision grip. Perception & Psychophysics, 57, 282-290.
14. FLOURNOY, T. (1894). De l'influence de la perception visuelle des corps sur leur poids apparent [On the influence of visual perception on the apparent weight of objects]. L'Année Psychologique, 1, 198-208.
15. GANDEVIA, S. C., & MCCLOSKEY, D. I. (1977a). Changes in motor commands as shown by changes in perceived heaviness, during partial curarization and peripheral anasthesia in man. Journal of Physiology, 272, 673-689.
16. GANDEVIA, S. C., & MCCLOSKEY, D. I. (1977b). Sensations of heaviness. Brain, 100, 345-354.
17. GORDON, A. M., FORSSBERG, H., JOHANSSON, R. S., & WESTLING, G. (1991a). Visual size cues in the programming of manipulative forces during precision grip. Experimental Brain Research, 83, 477-482.
18. GORDON, A. M., FORSSBERG, H., JOHANSSON, R. S., & WESTLING, G. (1991b). The integration of haptically acquired size information in the programming of precision grip. Experimental Brain Research, 83, 483-488.
19. HELLSTRÖM, A. (1985). The time-order error and its relatives: Mirrors of cognitive processes in comparing. Psychological Bulletin, 97, 35-61.
20. HOLMES, G. (1917). The symptoms of acute cerebellar injuries due to gunshot injuries. Brain, 40, 461-535.
21. JENMALM, P., & JOHANSSON, R. S. (1997). Visual and somatosensory information about object shape control manipulative fingertip forces. Journal of Neuroscience, 17, 4486-4499.
22. JOHANSSON, R. S. (1996). Sensory control of dextrous manipulation in humans. In A. M. Wing, P. Haggard, & J. R. Flanagan (Eds.), Hand and brain: Neurophysiology and psychology of hand movement (pp. 381-414). San Diego: Academic Press.
23. JOHANSSON, R. S., & COLE, K. J. (1994). Grasp stability during manipulative actions. Canadian Journal of Physiolology & Pharmacology, 72, 511-524.
24. JOHANSSON, R. S., & WESTLING, G. (1984). Roles of glabrous skin receptors and sensorimotor memory in automatic control of precision grip when lifting rougher or more slippery objects. Experimental Brain Research, 56, 550-564.
25. JOHANSSON, R. S., & WESTLING, G. (1987). Signals in tactile afferents from the fingers eliciting adaptive motor responses during precision grip. Experimental Brain Research, 66, 141-154.
26. JONES, L. A. (1986). Perception of force and weight: Theory and research. Psychological Bulletin, 100, 29-42.
27. JONES, L. A., & HUNTER, I. W. (1983). Effect of fatigue on muscle sensation. Experimental Neurology, 81, 640-650.
28. KILBREATH, S. L., & GANDEVIA, S. C. (1991). Independent digit control: Failure to partition perceived heaviness of weights lifted by digits of the human hand. Journal of Physiology, 442, 585-599.
29. KINOSHITA, H., BÄCKSTRÖM, L., FLANAGAN, J. R., & JOHANSSON, R. S. (1997). Planar torque effects on grip force during precision grip. Journal of Neurophysiology, 78, 1619-1630.
30. KINOSHITA, H., KAWAI, S., & IKUTA, K. (1996). Contributions and coordination of individual fingers in multiple finger prehension. Ergonomics, 39, 243-256.
31. KINOSHITA, H., MURASE, T., & BANDOU, T. (1996). Grip posture and forces during holding cylindrical objects with circular grips. Ergonomics, 39, 1163-1176.
32. LANSING, R. W., & BANZETT, R. B. (1993). What do fully paralyzed awake humans feel when they attempt to move? Journal of Motor Behavior, 25, 309-313.
33. LEDERMAN S. J., & KLATZKY, R. L. (1987). Hand movements: A window into haptic object recognition. Cognitive Psychology, 19, 342-368.
34. LEMON, R. N. (1993). Cortical control of the primate hand. Experimental Physiology, 78, 263-301.
35. MATTHEWS, P. B. C. (1982). Where does Sherrington's muscular sense originate? Muscles, joints, corollary discharges? Annual Review of Neuroscience, 5, 189-218.
36. MCCULLAGH, P., & NELDER, J. A. (1989). Generalized linear models (2nd ed.). London: Chapman & Hall.
37. MOBERG, F. (1962). Criticism and study of methods for examining sensitivity in the hand. Neurology, 12, 8-19.
38. MURRAY, D. J., ELLIS, R. R., BANDOMIR, C. A., & ROSS, H. E. (1999). Charpentier (1891) on the size-weight illusion. Perception & Psychophysics, 61, 1681-1685.
39. RINKENAUER, G., MATTES, S., & ULRICH, R. (1999). The surface-weight illusion: On the contribution of grip force to perceived heaviness. Perception & Psychophysics, 61, 23-30.
40. ROSS, H. E. (1969). When is a weight not illusory? Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 21, 346-355.
41. ROTHWELL, J. C., TRAUB, M. M., DAY, B. L., OBESO, J. A., THOMAS, P. K., & MARSDEN, C. D. (1982). Manual motor performance in a deafferented man. Brain, 105, 515-542.
42. SEASHORE, C. E. (1899). Some psychological statistics: 2. The material weight illusion. University of Iowa Studies in Psychology, 2, 36-46.
43. VAN DOREN, C. L. (1998). Grasp stiffness as a function of grasp force and finger span. Motor Control, 2, 352-378.
44. WEBER, E. H. (1996). E. H. Weber on the tactile senses (2nd ed.; H. E. Ross & D. J. Murray, Eds. and Trans.). London: Taylor & Francis. (Original work published 1834)
45. WERREMEYER, M. M., & COLE, K. J. (1997). Wrist action affects precision grip force. Journal of Neurophysiology, 78, 271-280.
46. WING, A. M. (1996) Anticipatory control of grip force in rapid arm movements. In A. M. Wing, P. Haggard, & J. R. Flanagan (Eds.), Hand and brain: Neurophysiology and psychology of hand movement (pp. 301-324). San Diego: Academic Press.
47. WING, A. M., & LEDERMAN, S. J. (1998). Anticipating load torques produced by voluntary movements. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception & Performance, 24, 1571-1581.
48. WOLFE, H. K. (1898). Some effects of size on judgements of weight. Psychological Review, 5, 25-54.