A mass-density model can account for the size-weight illusion.

When judging the heaviness of two objects with equal mass, people perceive the smaller and denser of the two as being heavier. Despite the large number of theories, covering bottom-up and top-down approaches, none of them can fully account for all aspects of this size-weight illusion and thus for hu...

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Published in:PLoS ONE
Main Authors: Christian Wolf, Wouter M Bergmann Tiest, Knut Drewing
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2018-01-01
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5813910?pdf=render