Hand wasting in Calumny of Apelles

Sharma, Sanjay

doi:10.4081/ni.2009.e12

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“…Some potters can, of course, engage in their craft without the full array of modalities, for there are skilled potters who are deaf (Groth, Mäkelä, & Seitamaa-Hakkarainen, 2012) and others who are blind (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UXbu24e6120). It may also be that there are potters whose tactile sensitivity is impaired from potting itself because sensory neuropathy can be caused by sustained exposure to lead from ceramics and glazes (Sharma, 2009). Nevertheless, our findings are consistent with previous research that explore bimodal versus unimodal situations in perceptual texture judgments (Binns, 1937; Heller, 1982) where reduction of either modality impaired performance.…”

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Potters Make Shorter Pots Under Conditions of Reduced Sensory Input

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Although people have made clay pots for millennia, little behavioral research has explored how they do so. We were specifically interested in potters' use of auditory, haptic, and visual feedback. We asked what would happen if one or two of these sources of feedback were removed and potters tried to create pots of a given height, stopping when they thought they had reached that height. We asked students in a pottery class to build simple clay vessels either when they had full sensory feedback (in the control condition for all participants) or when they had reduced input from one modality (in Experiment 1) or two modalities (in Experiment 2). Participants were asked to stop building the vessels when they thought the vessels were 5 in. high. We found that participants produced shorter vessels when one or more forms of sensory feedback was reduced. The degree of shortening did not depend on the type or number of reduced sensory channels. The results are consistent with a control hypothesis where potters must have learned how to use sensory feedback from the modalities to help them control their ceramic creations. The results help highlight the importance of the intimate connections between perception and action.

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