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SUBMITTER: Klein LK
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7428291 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Klein Lina K LK Maiello Guido G Paulun Vivian C VC Fleming Roland W RW
PLoS computational biology 20200804 8
We rarely experience difficulty picking up objects, yet of all potential contact points on the surface, only a small proportion yield effective grasps. Here, we present extensive behavioral data alongside a normative model that correctly predicts human precision grasping of unfamiliar 3D objects. We tracked participants' forefinger and thumb as they picked up objects of 10 wood and brass cubes configured to tease apart effects of shape, weight, orientation, and mass distribution. Grasps were hig ...[more]