How Weight Affects the Perceived Spacing between the Thumb and Fingers during Grasping.

We know much about mechanisms determining the perceived size and weight of lifted objects, but little about how these properties of size and weight affect the body representation (e.g. grasp aperture of the hand). Without vision, subjects (n = 16) estimated spacing between fingers and thumb (perceiv...

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Main Authors: Annie A Butler, Martin E Héroux, Simon C Gandevia
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2015-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4440696?pdf=render