The influence of intersensory discrepancy on visuo-haptic integration is similar in 6-year-old children and adults

When participants are given the opportunity to simultaneously feel an object and see it through a magnifying or reducing lens, adults estimate object size to be in-between visual and haptic size. Studies with young children, however, seem to demonstrate that their estimates are dominated by a single...

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Main Authors: Bianca eJovanovic, Knut eDrewing
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2014-01-01
Series:Frontiers in Psychology
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fpsyg.2014.00057/full