Observing and engaging in purposeful actions with objects influences estimates of their size

Wesp, Richard; Cichello, Paula; Gracia, Erica B.; Davis, Kathryn A.

doi:10.3758/bf03194996

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“…Thus, in the throwing-only tasks, where the circle-shaped target was the primary action-related object, children who hit the target more often perceived the target to be bigger than did children who hit the target less successfully. This provides clear support for the perceptual accentuation hypothesis (see Veltkamp et al, 2008) and is in accordance with previous findings by Witt and colleagues ; see also Wesp, Cichello, Gracia, & Davis, 2004).…”

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Action goals influence action-specific perception

Cañal‐Bruland

Kamp

2009

Psychonomic Bulletin & Review

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We examined the processes that mediate the emergence of action-specific influences on perception that have recently been reported for baseball batting and golf putting (Witt, Linkenauger, Bakdash, & Proffitt, 2008;. To this end, we used a Schokokusswurfmaschine: Children threw a ball at a target, which, if hit successfully, launched a ball that the children then had to catch. In two experiments, children performed either a throwing-and-catching task or a throwing-only task, in which no ball was launched. After each task, the size of the target or of the ball was estimated. Results indicate that action-specific influences on perceived size occur for objects that are related to the end goal of the action, but not for objects that are related to intermediate action goals. These results suggest that action-specific influences on perception are contingent upon the primary action goals to be achieved.Psychonomic Bulletin & Review 2009, 16 (6), 1100-1105 doi:10.3758/PBR.16.6.1100 R. Cañal-Bruland, r.bruland@fbw.vu.nl

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“…Recent evidence has demonstrated action-specific influences on perception of the environment (Wesp et al, 2004;. Successful performance systematically affects the perceived size or distance of action-related objects.…”

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Action goals influence action-specific perception

Cañal‐Bruland

Kamp

2009

Psychonomic Bulletin & Review

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“…Other evidence that performance can influence perception comes from another laboratory task in which participants had to drop a miniature dart onto a target. Participants who required fewer drops to hit the target perceived the target to be bigger (Wesp et al 2004). Because participants viewed the target while making their estimates as well, these findings support the notion that performance influences perception, rather than memory.…”

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“…In the current experiment, participants viewed the target throughout the experiment and while making both pre-and post-performance size estimates. Therefore, the current results suggest an effect on perception rather than memory (see also Wesp et al 2004;.…”

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Kicking to Bigger Uprights: Field Goal Kicking Performance Influences Perceived Size

Witt

Dorsch

2009

Perception

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Perception relates not only to the optical information from the environment but also to the perceiver's performance on a given task. We present evidence that the perceived height and width of an American-football field goal post relates to the perceiver's kicking performance. Participants who made more successful kicks perceived the field goal posts to be farther apart and perceived the crossbar to be closer to the ground compared with participants who made fewer kicks. Interestingly, the current results show perceptual effects related to performance only after kicking the football but not before kicking. We also found that the types of performance errors influenced specific aspects of perception. The more kicks that were missed left or right of the target, the narrower the field goal posts looked. The more kicks that were missed short of the target, the taller the field goal crossbar looked. These results demonstrate that performance is a factor in size perception.

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“…Softball players with a better batting average perceived a softball to appear larger , golfers who were better putters reported that the target hole appeared bigger (Witt, Linkenauger, Bakdash, & Proffitt, 2008), participants with better performance in throwing darts perceived the target to be larger (Cañal-Bruland & van der Kamp, 2009;Cañal-Bruland, Pijpers, & Oudejans, 2010;Wesp, Cichello, Gracia, & Davis, 2004), and field goal kickers with better performance perceived the distance between the goal posts to be larger (Witt & Dorsch, 2009). Here, the notion is that the relevant perceptual ruler is the variability distribution of performance around a particular target.…”

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A Socio-Ecological Approach to Perception

Gross

Proffítt

2014

PSYCHOLOGIA -An International Journal of Psychological Sciences

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Our conscious visual experience of the environment is derived from optical information consisting of an ever-changing distribution of light specified in angular units. To transform these units into linear spatial units appropriate for the specification of spatial extents, the visual system needs geometry and a ruler to scale the information. We review the evidence that perceptual rulers derive from the body's phenotype, which is comprised of our morphology, physiology, and behavioral repertoire. We then propose that perception is also scaled relative to the socioecological environment. In this account, social resources affect perception by extending or contracting the relevant physiological ruler. Additionally, we suggest the human ecology functions to select the relevant perceptual ruler. Finally, we highlight research on individual differences as a useful method to further investigate these issues. In moving forward, a complete account of visual perception must necessarily include the socio-ecological environment.eey wodss: K visual perception, social resources, perceptual scaling, socio-ecological environmentThe information for visual perception consists of optic flow and ocular-motor adjustments, both of which consist of angular units. In order to transform these angular units into linear units appropriate for the perception of distance and size, the visual system must make use of geometry and rulers. Our embodied approach to perception contends that the body's phenotype, consisting of morphology, physiology, and behavior, provides the rulers by which spatial perceptions are scaled (Proffitt & Linkenauger, 2013). Depending on one's goals in a particular environment, different aspects of the body become relevant perceptual rulers. Picking up an object, for example, makes hand size relevant, whereas reaching to a location implicates arm's length. In the current paper, we review our embodied approach to perception, and in particular, discuss how walkable extents are scaled to the physiological resources required to traverse the extent. We then consider how social resources function to augment or deplete the resources available for locomotion, and thereby, contribute to the scaling of walkable extents. Given the inherent variability in peoples' phenotypes, we favor an individual differences approach to investigating socioecological effects in perception.

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Observing and engaging in purposeful actions with objects influences estimates of their size

Cited by 71 publications

References 33 publications

Action goals influence action-specific perception

Action goals influence action-specific perception

Kicking to Bigger Uprights: Field Goal Kicking Performance Influences Perceived Size

A Socio-Ecological Approach to Perception

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