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Frame-by-Frame Video Analysis of Idiosyncratic Reach-to-Grasp Movements in Humans
Published on: January 15, 2018
Abstract:
In a study of visual dominance based on Rock and Victor's experiments, observers examined well-known objects while receiving conflicting tactual and visual information. In experiment 1 observers simultaneously felt a circular 20 cent coin and looked at it through a lens which transformed the visual image to an oval with axes in the ratio 1 : 1.8. In experiment 2 another sample of observers felt well known cubic objects-dice-and looked at them through lens systems made the visual images: (i) rectangular with sides in the ratio 1 : 1.3; (2) diamond-shaped with 72 degrees smaller angles; (iii) rectangular with side in the ratio 1 : 1.8; and (iv) a parallelogram with side lengths in the ratio 1 : 1.8 and with 60 degrees smaller angles. Although there was some conflict between the observers' cognitions and their percepts, effectively all reported that the target objects were like or felt like their visual images, demonstrating that the dominance of vision over touch is far stronger than has been recognised.
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