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Quantifying Learning in Young Infants: Tracking Leg Actions During a Discovery-learning Task
Published on: June 1, 2015
Impact of action planning on visual and body perception in a virtual grasping task
Wladimir Kirsch1, Wilfried Kunde2
1Institut für Psychologie III der Universität Würzburg, Röntgenring 11, 97070, Würzburg, Germany. kirsch@psychologie.uni-wuerzburg.de.
Abstract:
The present study examined mutual influences of visual and body-related signals during planning of an object-oriented action. Participants were to enclose a visual target object using two cursors controlled by the movements of their fingers. During movement preparation, they were asked to judge either the size of the object or a certain finger distance. Both types of judgments were systematically affected by the transformation of finger movements into the movements of visual cursors. We suggest that these biases are perceptual consequences of sensory integration of visual and body-related signals relating to the same external object.
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