Low-level sensory processes play a more crucial role than high-level cognitive ones in the size-weight illusion.

ABSTRACT: The size-weight illusion (SWI) pertains to the experience of perceiving the smaller of two equally weighted objects as heavier. Competing theories to explain the illusion can be generally grouped into cognitive and sensory theories, which place more importance on top-down processing of cognitive expectations and bottom-up processing of sensory information about the size and weight of objects, respectively. The current study examined the relative contribution of these two general explanations. This was done by varying the amounts of cognitive load in a dual-task and the quality of somatosensory feedback by wearing or not wearing gloves. Participants placed their hands through a curtain inside a box so they could not see the test objects. Inside the box, they were presented with either a sma

SUBMITTER: Freeman CG 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6743775 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature