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Weight illusions and weight discrimination—a revised hypothesis

Helen E. Ross Psychological Laboratory, University of Cambridge
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R. L. Gregory Psychological Laboratory, University of Cambridge
Pages 318-328 | Received 02 Feb 1970, Published online: 29 May 2007

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Jinwook Kim, Seonghyeon Kim & Jeongmi Lee. (2022) The Effect of Multisensory Pseudo-Haptic Feedback on Perception of Virtual Weight. IEEE Access 10, pages 5129-5140.
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Elizabeth J. Saccone, Oriane Landry & Philippe A. Chouinard. (2019) A meta-analysis of the size-weight and material-weight illusions. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review 26:4, pages 1195-1212.
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Philippe A. Chouinard, Kezia G. Matheson, Kayla A. Royals, Oriane Landry, Gavin Buckingham, Elizabeth J. Saccone & Darren R. Hocking. (2019) The development of the size–weight illusion in children coincides with the development of nonverbal cognition rather than motor skills. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology 184, pages 48-64.
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Elizabeth J. Saccone & Philippe A. Chouinard. (2018) The influence of size in weight illusions is unique relative to other object features. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review 26:1, pages 77-89.
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Serge Nicolas, Helen E. Ross & David J. Murray. (2012) Charpentier's Papers of 1886 and 1891 on Weight Perception and the Size-Weight Illusion. Perceptual and Motor Skills 115:1, pages 120-141.
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Matthew Streit, Kevin Shockley, Michael A. Riley & Anthony W. Morris. (2007) Rotational kinematics influence multimodal perception of heaviness. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review 14:2, pages 363-367.
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Crystal D. Oberle & Eric L. Amazeen. (2003) Independence and separability of volume and mass in the size-weight illusion. Perception & Psychophysics 65:6, pages 831-843.
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Peter Walker & Sylvia Smith. (2016) Stroop Interference Based on the Multimodal Correlates of Haptic Size and Auditory Pitch. Perception 14:6, pages 729-736.
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