Summarizing slant perception with words and hands; an empirical alternative to correlations in Shaffer, McManama, Swank, Williams & Durgin (2014)
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Colleges, School and Institutes
Abstract
The paper by Shaffer, McManama, Swank, Williams & Durgin (2014) uses correlations between palm-board and verbal estimates of geographical slant to argue against dissociation of the two measures. This paper reports the correlations between the verbal, visual and palm-board measures of geographical slant used by Proffitt and co-workers as a counterpoint to the analyses presented by Shaffer and colleagues. The data are for slant perception of staircases in a station (N=269), a shopping mall (N=229) and a civic square (N=109). In all three studies, modest correlations between the palm-board matches and the verbal reports were obtained. Multiple-regression analyses of potential contributors to verbal reports, however, indicated no unique association between verbal and palm-board measures. Data from three further studies (combined N=528) also show no evidence of any relationship. Shared method variance between visual and palm-board matches could account for the modest association between palm-boards and verbal reports.
Bibliographic note
Details
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 77-81 |
Number of pages | 5 |
Journal | Acta Psychologica |
Volume | 155 |
Early online date | 8 Jan 2015 |
Publication status | Published - Feb 2015 |
Keywords
- Hand, Humans, Orientation, Space Perception, Geographical slant perception, Verbal, visual and palm-board measures, Dissociation, Staircases