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- Title
Large perspective changes yield perception of metric shape that allows accurate feedforward reaches-to-grasp and it persists after the optic flow has stopped!
- Authors
Young-Lim Lee; Bingham, Geoffrey P.
- Abstract
Lee et al. (Percept Psychophys 70:1032–1046, ) investigated whether visual perception of metric shape could be calibrated when used to guide feedforward reaches-to-grasp. It could not. Seated participants viewed target objects (elliptical cylinders) in normal lighting using stereo vision and free head movements that allowed small (≈10°) perspective changes. The authors concluded that poor perception of metric shape was the reason reaches-to-grasp should be visually guided online. However, Bingham and Lind (Percept Psychophys 70:524–540, ) showed that large perspective changes (≥45°) yield good perception of metric shape. So, now we repeated the Lee et al.’s study with the addition of information from large perspective changes. The results were accurate feedforward reaches-to-grasp reflecting accurate perception of both metric shape and metric size. Large perspective changes occur when one locomotes into a workspace in which reaches-to-grasp are subsequently performed. Does the resulting perception of metric shape persist after the large perspective changes have ceased? Experiments 2 and 3 tested reaches-to-grasp with delays (Exp. 2, 5-s delay; Exp. 3, ≈16-s delay) and multiple objects to be grasped after a single viewing. Perception of metric shape and metric size persisted yielding accurate reaches-to-grasp. We advocate the study of nested actions using a dynamic approach to perception/action.
- Publication
Experimental Brain Research, 2010, Vol 204, Issue 4, p559
- ISSN
0014-4819
- Publication type
Academic Journal
- DOI
10.1007/s00221-010-2323-2