Grasping Discriminates between Object Sizes Less Not More Accurately than the Perceptual System.
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SUBMITTER: Gohringer F
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6802793 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jul
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Grasping Discriminates between Object Sizes Less Not More Accurately than the Perceptual System.
Göhringer Frederic F Löhr-Limpens Miriam M Hesse Constanze C Schenk Thomas T
Vision (Basel, Switzerland) 20190719 3
Ganel, Freud, Chajut, and Algom (2012) demonstrated that maximum grip apertures (MGAs) differ significantly when grasping perceptually identical objects. From this finding they concluded that the visual size information used by the motor system is more accurate than the visual size information available to the perceptual system. A direct comparison between the accuracy in the perception and the action system is, however, problematic, given that accuracy in the perceptual task is measured using a ...[more]
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