The Bathtub Illusion

When a person looks at the fingers of their own hand as they line up in depth, the impression may emerge that the little fingers, which are farther away, are located too far and if so they are not part of the same hand. I describe the conditions and suggest this is due to the size difference between...

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Autor principal: Bertamini, Marco
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: SAGE Publications 2019
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Short and Sweet
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6611018/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31321017
http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2041669519853594
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description When a person looks at the fingers of their own hand as they line up in depth, the impression may emerge that the little fingers, which are farther away, are located too far and if so they are not part of the same hand. I describe the conditions and suggest this is due to the size difference between fingers (size-distance scaling). A role of size on perceived distance here is more powerful than knowledge about our own body.
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spelling pubmed-66110182019-07-18 The Bathtub Illusion Bertamini, Marco Iperception Short and Sweet When a person looks at the fingers of their own hand as they line up in depth, the impression may emerge that the little fingers, which are farther away, are located too far and if so they are not part of the same hand. I describe the conditions and suggest this is due to the size difference between fingers (size-distance scaling). A role of size on perceived distance here is more powerful than knowledge about our own body. SAGE Publications 2019-07-04 /pmc/articles/PMC6611018/ /pubmed/31321017 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2041669519853594 Text en © The Author(s) 2019 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Creative Commons CC-BY: This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License (http://www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) which permits any use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access pages (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage).
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