Perception of whether an object can be carried through an aperture depends on anticipated speed

Experimental Psychology

Volumn 54, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 54-61

  Wagman, Jeffrey B ^a   Malek, Eric A ^a  

^a ILLINOIS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Affordances; Handheld objects; Haptic perception; Visual perception

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATION; ARTICLE; DECISION MAKING; DEPTH PERCEPTION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEARNING; MALE; ORIENTATION; PERCEPTION; PROBLEM SOLVING; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOPHYSICS; RUNNING; TOUCH; WALKING; WEIGHT BEARING;

ACCELERATION; DEPTH PERCEPTION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEMALE; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; MALE; ORIENTATION; PROBLEM SOLVING; PSYCHOPHYSICS; RUNNING; SET (PSYCHOLOGY); SIZE PERCEPTION; TOUCH; WALKING; WEIGHT-BEARING;

EID: 33847268638     PISSN: 16183169     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1027/1618-3169.54.1.54     Document Type: Article

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