Citation

Klatzky RL, Lederman SJ, Matula DE. J. Exp. Psychol. Learn. Mem. Cogn. 1991; 17(2): 314-322.

Affiliation

Department of Psychology, University of California, Santa Barbara 93106

Copyright

(Copyright © 1991, American Psychological Association)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

1827833

Abstract

In Experiment 1, each subject rated a single, named object for its roughness, hardness, temperature, weight, size, or shape. In Experiment 2, each subject compared one pair of objects along the same dimensions. In both studies, a substantial proportion of subjects who judged the first four dimensions imagined a hand making exploratory movements appropriate for the designated information. The proportion of hand-exploration images decreased substantially when judging size or shape, or when judgments could be made readily through general semantic knowledge. The results suggest that the incorporation of haptic exploration into visual imagery provides access to information about haptically accessible object properties.

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