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ERIC Number: EJ735290
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2005-Oct
Pages: 8
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ISSN: ISSN-0096-1523
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How Perception Impacts on Drawings
Mitchell, Peter; Ropar, Danielle; Ackroyd, Katie; Rajendran, Gnanathusharan
Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, v31 n5 p996-1003 Oct 2005
In 3 experiments the authors investigate how errors in perception produce errors in drawings. In Experiment 1, when Shepard stimuli were shown as a pair of tables, participants made severe errors in trying to adjust 1 part of the stimulus to match the other. When the table legs were removed, revealing a pair of parallelograms with minimal perspective cues, the illusion was weaker. The authors predicted that participants would err when drawing the table but not the parallelogram stimuli. The results of Experiment 2 support the prediction and establish a direct link between degree of perceptual distortion of the table stimuli and the severity of error in drawing. When drawing only the right-hand part of the figure, participants also erred to a greater degree in drawing the table than the parallelogram (Experiment 3). Collectively, the results suggest that perceptual distortion is linked with errors in drawing the table stimuli.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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