{"pk":25797,"title":"Spatial Perception is Continuously Constrained by Goals and Memories","subtitle":null,"abstract":"Perceptual variables such as perceived distance contain\ninformation about future actions. Often our goals involve the\nintegration of another’s goals, such as lifting heavy objects\ntogether. The purpose of this study was to investigate how\nanother’s actions might influence one’s own goal-oriented\nperceptions, specifically, verbal distance estimates. Using a\nwithin-subject paradigm, we replicated a well-known finding\nthat carrying a weighted backpack results in larger distance\nestimates relative to not carrying a backpack. In a crucial\nsecond condition, this effect was reversed: distance estimates\nwere significantly greater when not carrying a weighted\nbackpack than when carrying a backpack. In this condition,\nparticipants provided distance estimates while wearing a\nweighted backpack during the first phase and then gave\nestimates while not wearing a backpack, but following an\nexperimenter wearing a weighted backpack in the second\nphase. Three additional conditions systematically documented\nhow the observations of another’s actions influenced distance\nestimates.","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[{"word":"perception; memory; affordances; distance\nestimation; social interaction"}],"section":"Papers","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7ph1k1pk","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"David","middle_name":"W","last_name":"Winson","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of California Merced","department":""},{"first_name":"J","middle_name":"Scott","last_name":"Jordan","name_suffix":"","institution":"Illinois State University","department":""},{"first_name":"Alycia","middle_name":"M","last_name":"Hund","name_suffix":"","institution":"Illinois State University","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"2015-01-01T18:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/25797/galley/15421/download/"}]}