Seeing and feeling volumes: The influence of shape on volume perception

• Published in: Acta psychologica Vol. 134; no. 3; pp. 385 - 390
• Main Authors: Kahrimanovic, Mirela, Bergmann Tiest, Wouter M., Kappers, Astrid M.L.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Kidlington Elsevier B.V 01.07.2010; Elsevier
• Subjects: Adult; Analysis of Variance; Biological and medical sciences; Discrimination (Psychology) - physiology; Female; Form Perception - physiology; Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology; Humans; Male; Multimodal; Perception; Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry; Psychology. Psychophysiology; Psychophysics; Size Perception - physiology; Surveys and Questionnaires; Tactile perception; Touch; Touch - physiology; Vision; Vision, Ocular - physiology; 2320; Multimodal; Touch; Psychophysics; 2323; Vision; Human; Stimulus shape; Tactile sensitivity; Volume; Perception; Experimental study

The volume of common objects can be perceived visually, haptically or by a combination of both senses. The present study shows large effects of the object's shape on volume perception within all these modalities, with an average bias of 36%. In all conditions, the volume of a tetrahedron was ov...