Title :

The reproduction of vertical and oblique orientations in the visual, haptic, and somato-vestibular systems.

Author(s) :

Gentaz, E [Auteur]
Laboratoire de Psychologie et NeuroCognition [LPNC]
Luyat, Marion [Auteur]
Psychologie : Interactions, Temps, Émotions, Cognition (PSITEC) - ULR 4072
203506|||Unité de Recherche en Sciences Cognitives et Affectives [URECA]
Cian, C [Auteur]
Laboratoire de Psychologie et NeuroCognition [LPNC]
Hatwell, Y [Auteur]
Barraud, P A [Auteur]
Raphel, C [Auteur]

Journal title :

The Quarterly journal of experimental psychology. A, Human experimental psychology

Abbreviated title :

Q J Exp Psychol A

Volume number :

54

Pages :

513-26

Publication date :

2001-05-01

ISSN :

0272-4987

English keyword(s) :

Adult
Cues
Environment
Gravitation
Humans
Judgment
Kinesthesis
Male
Periodicity
Space Perception
Touch
Vestibule, Labyrinth
Visual Perception

HAL domain(s) :

Sciences cognitives

English abstract : [en]

This study investigates whether the vertical orientation may be predominantly used as an amodal reference norm by the visual, haptic, and somato-vestibular perceptual systems to define oblique orientations. We examined ...
Show more >This study investigates whether the vertical orientation may be predominantly used as an amodal reference norm by the visual, haptic, and somato-vestibular perceptual systems to define oblique orientations. We examined this question by asking the same sighted adult subjects to reproduce, in the frontal (roll) plane, the vertical (0 degree) and six oblique orientations in three tasks involving different perceptual systems. In the visual task, the subjects adjusted a moveable rod so that it reproduced the orientation of a visual rod seen previously in a dark room. In the haptic task, the blindfolded sighted subjects scanned an oriented rod with one hand and reproduced its orientation, with the same hand, on a moveable response rod. In the somato-vestibular task, the blind-folded sighted subjects, sitting in a rotating chair, adjusted this chair in order to reproduce the tested orientation of their own body. The results showed that similar oblique effects (unsigned angular error difference between six oblique orientations and vertical orientation) were observed across the three tasks. However, there were no positive correlations between the visual, haptic, and somato-vestibular oblique effects. Moreover, in some oblique orientations, there was a tendency to overestimate the angle between the oblique orientation and the vertical orientation. This effect varied according to the orientation value and the modality. Taken together, these findings suggest that although vertical orientation is used as a reference norm in the visual, haptic, and somato-vestibular systems to define oblique orientations, specific processing mechanisms seem to be at work in each perceptual system.Show less >

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