Length distortion of temporally extended visual displays: Similarity to haptic spatial perception
- 1 July 1989
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Springer Nature in Perception & Psychophysics
- Vol. 46 (4) , 387-394
- https://doi.org/10.3758/bf03204993
Abstract
Three experiments were designed to investigatelength distortion—the tendency to inflate estimates of the inferred distance between two points, as the length of a circuitous pathway between them increases. This phenomenon, previously demonstrated with haptic and locomotor exploration (Lederman, Klatzky, Collins, & Wardell, 1987), was extended to vision through the presentation of pathways as a temporal sequence of illuminated points. The magnitude of the visual effect was less than that previously found in haptics, and conditions promoting the effect included a relatively slow presentation rate and moderately complex pathways. Commonalities in the pattern, if not the magnitude, of length distortion in vision and haptics suggest that similar processes of spatial encoding may underlie the phenomenon in both domains.This publication has 25 references indexed in Scilit:
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