Using Immersive Virtual Reality to Examine How Visual and Tactile Cues Drive the Material-Weight Illusion
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DOI: 10.3758/s13414-021-02414-x
Abstract: The material-weight illusion (MWI) demonstrates how our past experience with material and weight can create expectations that influence the perceived heaviness of an object. Here we used mixed-reality to place touch and vision in conflict,… read more here.
Keywords: material weight; reality; visual tactile;
The material-weight illusion is a Bayes-optimal percept under competing density priors
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DOI: 10.7717/peerj.5760
Abstract: The material-weight illusion (MWI) is one example in a class of weight perception illusions that seem to defy principled explanation. In this illusion, when an observer lifts two objects of the same size and mass,… read more here.
Keywords: illusion; weight illusion; density; material weight ... See more keywords