Information space is action space: Perceiving the partial lengths of rods rotated on an axle

Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics

Volumn 73, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 160-171

  Michaels, Claire F ^a   Isenhower, Robert W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

Author keywords

Cue integration; Dynamic touch; Haptics; Kinesthesis; Perceptual learning

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATION; ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; CONCEPT FORMATION; DECISION MAKING; DEPTH PERCEPTION; GRAVITY; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; KINESTHESIA; MOTOR ACTIVITY; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PERCEPTION; PSYCHOPHYSICS; SENSORY DEPRIVATION; TORQUE;

ACCELERATION; CONCEPT FORMATION; CUES; FEEDBACK, PSYCHOLOGICAL; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; GRAVITATION; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; KINESTHESIS; MOTOR ACTIVITY; ORIENTATION; PSYCHOPHYSICS; SENSORY DEPRIVATION; SIZE PERCEPTION; SPACE PERCEPTION; STEREOGNOSIS; TORQUE; WEIGHT PERCEPTION;

EID: 79951945661     PISSN: 19433921     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/s13414-010-0024-3     Document Type: Article

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