Aging and the visual, haptic, and cross-modal perception of natural object shape Export

@article{citeulike:3518875, abstract = {One hundred observers participated in two experiments designed to investigate aging and the perception of natural object shape. In the experiments, younger and older observers performed either a same/different shape discrimination task (experiment 1) or a cross-modal matching task (experiment 2). Quantitative effects of age were found in both experiments. The effect of age in experiment 1 was limited to cross-modal shape discrimination: there was no effect of age upon unimodal (ie within a single perceptual modality) shape discrimination. The effect of age in experiment 2 was eliminated when the older observers were either given an unlimited amount of time to perform the task or when the number of response alternatives was decreased. Overall, the results of the experiments reveal that older observers can effectively perceive 3-D shape from both vision and haptics.}, author = {Norman, J. F. and Crabtree, C. E. and Norman, H. F. and Moncrief, B. K. and Herrmann, M. and Kapley, N.}, citeulike-article-id = {3518875}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1068/p5504}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://www.perceptionweb.com/abstract.cgi?id=p5504}, doi = {10.1068/p5504}, journal = {Perception}, keywords = {object, perceive, perception, psychology}, pages = {1383--1395}, posted-at = {2008-11-15 15:09:39}, priority = {2}, publisher = {Pion Ltd}, title = {Aging and the visual, haptic, and cross-modal perception of natural object shape}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1068/p5504}, volume = {35}, year = {2006} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:3518875 L3 - citeulike-article-id:3518875 N2 - One hundred observers participated in two experiments designed to investigate aging and the perception of natural object shape. In the experiments, younger and older observers performed either a same/different shape discrimination task (experiment 1) or a cross-modal matching task (experiment 2). Quantitative effects of age were found in both experiments. The effect of age in experiment 1 was limited to cross-modal shape discrimination: there was no effect of age upon unimodal (ie within a single perceptual modality) shape discrimination. The effect of age in experiment 2 was eliminated when the older observers were either given an unlimited amount of time to perform the task or when the number of response alternatives was decreased. Overall, the results of the experiments reveal that older observers can effectively perceive 3-D shape from both vision and haptics. JF - Perception EP - 1395 TI - Aging and the visual, haptic, and cross-modal perception of natural object shape PB - Pion Ltd VL - 35 SP - 1383 KW - object KW - perceive KW - perception KW - psychology AU - Norman, JF AU - Crabtree, CE AU - Norman, HF AU - Moncrief, BK AU - Herrmann, M AU - Kapley, N PY - 2006/// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1068/p5504 ER -