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Reproduction of complex two‐dimensional movements as a function of mode of presentation
Author(s) -
Colley Ann,
Pritchard Susan
Publication year - 1984
Publication title -
british journal of psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.536
H-Index - 92
eISSN - 2044-8295
pISSN - 0007-1269
DOI - 10.1111/j.2044-8295.1984.tb01898.x
Subject(s) - psychology , reproduction , function (biology) , presentation (obstetrics) , mode (computer interface) , cognitive psychology , cognitive science , communication , evolutionary biology , ecology , human–computer interaction , medicine , biology , radiology , computer science
The experiment reported here examined the kinaesthetic reproduction of two‐dimensional patterns from three different modes of presentation: kinaesthetic only, visual only and visual plus kinaesthetic. The patterns were open and consisted of three linear segments of different lengths. All reproductions tended to underestimate pattern size. Subjects who had received visual experience of the pattern with or without simultaneous kinaesthetic experience produced significantly greater underestimates than subjects who had not seen the patterns. This is discussed in terms of the dominance of vision over kinaesthesis, and differences in size perception in the two modalities. Least distortion of the pattern shape was found in the reproductions of subjects who had received both kinaesthetic and visual experience of the criterion.