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  • Perception Psychology
  • Human-Computer Interaction

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  • Multimodal signal integration is crucial for interacting with the environment.
  • Perceptual biases arise during tasks involving manual control of visual cursors to enclose objects.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate if statistically optimal sensory integration mechanisms explain perceptual biases in a manual object enclosure task.
  • To assess the impact of body-related information on object perception and variability when visual information reliability is manipulated.

Main Methods:

  • Participants performed a task to enclose visual objects using manually controlled cursors.
  • The relative reliability of visual object information was manipulated.
  • The influence of body-related information on object perception and perceptual variability was measured.

Main Results:

  • Results were qualitatively aligned with statistically optimal sensory integration models.
  • Quantitative measures of perceptual bias and variability deviated systematically from model predictions.
  • A compensatory mechanism, akin to reliability-based weighting of multisensory signals, was indicated.

Conclusions:

  • The findings suggest that action's influence on visual perception involves compensatory mechanisms beyond simple optimal integration.
  • This compensatory mechanism may explain diverse contextual effects on visual perception related to action.