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Zuidhoek S, Kappers A M L, Postma A, 2005, "Effects of hand orientation and delay on the verbal judgment of haptically perceived orientation" Perception 34(6) 741 – 755
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Effects of hand orientation and delay on the verbal judgment of haptically perceived orientation

Sander Zuidhoek, Astrid M L Kappers, Albert Postma

Received 18 June 2004, in revised form 5 October 2004

Abstract. We examined the haptic perception of orientations of a single bar throughout the horizontal plane using a verbal response: participants were to assign a number of minutes to the orientation of a bar defined with respect to the stimulus table. Performance was found to be systematically biased. Deviations were consistent with, yet much smaller than, those resulting from haptic motor matching tasks. The size and direction of the deviations were found to correlate with hand orientation, and not to depend on spatial location per se, suggesting a role for hand-centred reference frames in biasing performance. Delaying the response by 10 s led to a small improvement only of right-hand perceptions, indicating different hemispheric involvement in processes involved in retaining and/or recoding of haptic orientation information. Also the haptic oblique effect was found with the current verbal response. Importantly, it was affected neither by hand orientation nor by delay, suggesting that the oblique effect is independent of the aforementioned deviations in orientation perception.

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