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- Title
Priming of the Sander Parallelogram illusion separates perception from action.
- Authors
Senanayake, Shannon A.; Carther-Krone, Tiffany; Marotta, Jonathan J.
- Abstract
The two-visual stream hypothesis posits that the dorsal stream is less susceptible than the ventral stream to the effects of illusions and visual priming. While previous studies have separately examined these perceptual manipulations, the present study combined the effects of a visual illusion and priming to examine the possibility of dorsally guided actions being susceptible to the perceptual stimuli due to interactions between the two streams. Thirty-four participants were primed with a 'long' or 'short' version of the Sander Parallelogram illusion and were asked to either reach out and grasp or manually estimate the length of a rod placed on a version of the illusion that was on some trials the same as the prime (congruent) and on other trials was the inverse (incongruent). Due to the context-focused nature of ventral processing, we predicted that estimations would be more susceptible to the effects of the illusion and priming than grasps. Results showed that while participants' manual estimations were susceptible to both priming and the illusion, the grasps were only affected by the illusion, not by priming. The influence of the illusion on grip aperture was greater during manual estimations than it was during grasping. These findings support the notion that the functionally distinct dorsal and ventral streams interact under the current experimental paradigm. Outcomes of the study help better understand the nature of stimuli that promote interactions between the dorsal and ventral streams.
- Subjects
PERCEPTUAL illusions; PARALLELOGRAMS; OPTICAL illusions; STIMULUS &; response (Psychology)
- Publication
Experimental Brain Research, 2021, Vol 239, Issue 7, p2207
- ISSN
0014-4819
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s00221-021-06076-x