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Magdalena Szubielska1, Marcin Wojtasiński1
1Institute of Psychology, The John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, Poland.
Abstract:
This study aimed to test differences in drawn size of familiar objects of different physical size in haptic drawings produced by blindfolded sighted participants. Using two sizes of the foil sheets on which they made convex drawings, they drew one object per foil. The results showed that the size of drawings increased linearly with the rising rank of real-world size. Although larger drawings were created on larger foils than on smaller ones, the ratio of the object drawn size within the foil sheet size did not differ across foil sizes. Hence, canonical size-a phenomenon known so far from studies on the visual domain-revealed here in a task performed in the haptic domain.
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