Action-specific effects in perception and their potential applications.

Abstract

Spatial perception is biased by action. Hills appear steeper and distances appear farther to individuals who would have to exert more effort to transverse the space. Objects appear closer, smaller, and faster when they are easier to obtain. Athletes who are playing better than others see their targets as bigger. These phenomena are collectively known as action-specific effects on perception. In this target article, we review evidence for action-specific effects, including evidence that they reflect genuine differences in perception, and speculate on possible applications of action's influence on vision.

Revisiting the empirical case against perceptual modularity

“… 4 See Pylyshyn (1999) , Durgin et al (2009 , 2012 ), Raftopoulos (2009) , Zeimbekis (2013) , and Firestone and Scholl (2014 , 2015a , b) for examples of modularist replies. For a review of some of the empirical exchange between modularists and anti-modularists see Witt et al (2015) . …”

The Action Constraints of an Object Increase Distance Estimation in Extrapersonal Space

“…This question could be asked regarding our results, because the participants performed verbal estimations, which can be affected by both perceptual differences and response-based processes ( Poulton, 1979 ; Witt et al, 2016 ). For example, one could argue that if participants truly engaged in a motor simulation process and simulated walking with the trolley before their estimations, it would not necessarily mean that perception itself (i.e., visual processing) was altered.…”

Avaliação e controlo do treino: Informação ou ruído?

“…Os raciocínios, intuições e emoções são, igualmente, efetivados pelo corpo, não existindo enquanto entidades abstratas, a-corporais (29,30) . Em suma, mesmo uma avaliação que justificasse uma abordagem física teria de explicar devidamente o porquê de excluir tantos aspetos relacionados com este fator.…”