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Valeria Peviani¹, Francesca Giulia Magnani², Gabriella Bottini²

¹Department of Neuroscience, Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics, Grüneburgweg 14, 60322 Frankfurt am Main, Germany; Department of Brain and Behavioural Sciences, University of Pavia, Via Bassi, 21, 27100 Pavia, Italy.

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Summary

Our perception of object size is biased, mirroring how we misjudge our own body dimensions. These metric biases extend to everyday objects, influenced by our propensity to interact with them.

Keywords:

Action-specific perception Affordances Body representation Hand metrics Metric biases Object representation Size perception

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Cognitive Psychology
Neuroscience
Human Perception

Background:

Humans often misperceive their own body dimensions, such as perceiving fingers as shorter than they are.
These metric biases might extend to external objects to enhance environmental attunement.

Purpose of the Study:

To investigate if metric biases in body perception extend to the perception of external objects.
To explore the relationship between object familiarity, interactability, and metric biases.

Main Methods:

Six experiments involving 152 healthy subjects utilized the Line Length Judgment task.
Subjects compared object dimensions (hand, daily-life objects) against a standard line.
Object interactability was independently rated to correlate with size estimation errors.

Main Results:

The study confirmed misperceptions in hand dimensions.
Metric biases were observed for familiar objects like mobile phones and coffee mugs, irrespective of familiarity.
Objects perceived as harmful or disgusting showed different representation patterns.
Object interactability significantly predicted the observed metric biases.

Conclusions:

Body-centric metric biases extend to objects that encourage action-oriented behavior.
This suggests the body is actively integrated within its environment, influencing object perception.
Understanding these biases is crucial for comprehending human-environment interaction.