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¹Helmholtz Institute, Physics of Man, Utrecht University, Padualaan 8, 3584 CH Utrecht, The Netherlands. a.m.l.kappers@uu.nl

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Area of Science:

Cognitive Neuroscience
Human Perception
Spatial Cognition

Background:

Spatial perception experiments often show deviations attributed to an egocentric reference frame.
The influence of this egocentric bias is known to be highly participant-dependent.
It remains unclear whether this bias strength is consistent across different sensory modalities.

Purpose of the Study:

To investigate the modality-independence of egocentric reference frame influence in spatial tasks.
To determine if the strength of egocentric bias in haptic perception correlates with visual perception.

Main Methods:

A parallelity test was employed to assess spatial deviations in both haptic and visual conditions.
Participant-dependent deviations were systematically measured across sensory modalities.
Statistical analysis was used to evaluate the correlation and shared variance between haptic and visual biases.

Main Results:

Large, systematic, and participant-dependent deviations were observed in both haptic and visual spatial experiments.
A significant correlation was found between haptic and visual deviations.
However, only 20% of the variance in egocentric bias was explained by a common factor, indicating modality-specificity.

Conclusions:

The degree to which an individual relies on an egocentric reference frame is modality-dependent.
Egocentric bias strength varies significantly between haptic and visual spatial tasks.
Individual differences in spatial cognition are influenced by sensory modality and potentially experimental context.