Manual matching of perceived surface orientation is affected by arm posture: Evidence of calibration between proprioception and visual experience in near space

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 216, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 299-309

  Li, Zhi ^a   Durgin, Frank H ^a  

^a SWARTHMORE COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Action measure; Inter sensory calibration; Perceptual bias; Proprioception; Slant perception

Indexed keywords

ARM POSTURE; ARTICLE; BODY POSTURE; CALIBRATION; ELBOW FLEXION; FEMALE; FOREARM; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPRIOCEPTION; RANGE OF MOTION; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISION; VISUAL ORIENTATION; VISUAL SURFACE ORIENTATION;

ARM; BIOMECHANICS; CALIBRATION; ELBOW; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; ORIENTATION; POSTURE; PROPRIOCEPTION; SPACE PERCEPTION; VISUAL PERCEPTION; WRIST; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84856266720     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: 14321106     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00221-011-2934-2     Document Type: Article

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