Taking a Hands-On Approach: Apparent Grasping Ability Scales the Perception of Object Size

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance

Volumn 37, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 1432-1441

  Linkenauger, Sally A ^a   Witt, Jessica K ^b   Proffitt, Dennis R ^c  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL CYBERNETICS   (Germany)

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Affordances; Embodied perception; Visual perception

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BODY SIZE; DECISION MAKING; DISTANCE PERCEPTION; FEMALE; HAND; HAND STRENGTH; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; KINESTHESIA; MALE; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PERCEPTION; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PROPRIOCEPTION; PSYCHOPHYSICS; VISUAL ILLUSION;

BODY SIZE; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); DISTANCE PERCEPTION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HAND; HAND STRENGTH; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; KINESTHESIS; MALE; OPTICAL ILLUSIONS; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PROPRIOCEPTION; PSYCHOPHYSICS; SIZE PERCEPTION; WEIGHT PERCEPTION;

EID: 80053971033     PISSN: 00961523     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0024248     Document Type: Article

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