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  • Cognitive Psychology
  • Psychophysics
  • Neuroscience

Background:

  • The affordance-control interpretation links performance and object estimation.
  • Previous psychophysical and psychonomic studies explored this relationship.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To examine the relationship between weight estimation and performance.
  • To investigate how cognitive manipulation affects perceived weight and performance in visually impaired individuals.

Main Methods:

  • Participants with visual impairment or blindness estimated the weight of objects.
  • Experiment 1: Assessed perceived weight as a performance constraint.
  • Experiment 2: Manipulated cognitive interpretation to alter perceived weight.

Main Results:

  • Perceived weight was a significant constraint on performance.
  • Cognitive interpretation increased perceived weight, which correlated with performance.
  • This effect persisted even with mental actions, not just physical ones.

Conclusions:

  • Bodily experience and action are foundational for physical judgments and cognitive interpretations of sensory input.
  • Findings align with biofunctional approaches emphasizing embodied experience for awareness.
  • Discusses oriental philosophy and psychology perspectives on embodied cognition.