TY - JOUR
T1 - Lifting without seeing
T2 - the role of vision in perceiving and acting upon the size weight illusion
AU - Buckingham, Gavin
AU - Goodale, Melvyn A
N1 - open access
PY - 2010
Y1 - 2010
N2 - Our expectations of an object's heaviness not only drive our fingertip forces, but also our perception of heaviness. This effect is highlighted by the classic size-weight illusion (SWI), where different-sized objects of identical mass feel different weights. Here, we examined whether these expectations are sufficient to induce the SWI in a single wooden cube when lifted without visual feedback, by varying the size of the object seen prior to the lift.
AB - Our expectations of an object's heaviness not only drive our fingertip forces, but also our perception of heaviness. This effect is highlighted by the classic size-weight illusion (SWI), where different-sized objects of identical mass feel different weights. Here, we examined whether these expectations are sufficient to induce the SWI in a single wooden cube when lifted without visual feedback, by varying the size of the object seen prior to the lift.
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/77956183422
U2 - 10.1371/journal.pone.0009709
DO - 10.1371/journal.pone.0009709
M3 - Article
C2 - 20300575
SN - 1932-6203
VL - 5
JO - PLoS ONE
JF - PLoS ONE
IS - 3
M1 - e9709
ER -