An investigation of the distorted characteristics of hand representation

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dc.contributor.authorCoelho, Lara A.
dc.contributor.authorUniversity of Lethbridge. Faculty of Arts and Science
dc.contributor.supervisorGonzalez, Claudia L. R.
dc.date.accessioned2016-10-12T20:04:31Z
dc.date.available2016-10-12T20:04:31Z
dc.date.issued2016
dc.degree.levelMastersen_US
dc.description.abstractThe internal perception of the hands has been found to be distorted. These distortions feature hand width that is overestimated and finger length that is underestimated. The purpose of this thesis was to explore the conditions in which hand perception is distorted. Two experiments were based on two hypotheses: 1) hand perception resembles its anatomical dimensions when perceived holistically; and 2) part of the distortion is as a result of different sensory modalities interfering with one another. The results confirmed the distorted characteristics, and both experiments had one group of participants that performed significantly more accurately. When participants pointed to their fingers in succession (experiment 1), the distortion was significantly reduced. In experiment 2, participants had better perception when using haptics but were more distorted when using vision or vision and haptics. This suggests that vision but not haptics interferes with having an anatomically accurate perception.  en_US
dc.description.sponsorshipNatural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada.en_US
dc.embargoNoen_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10133/4618
dc.language.isoen_CAen_US
dc.proquest.subject0575en_US
dc.proquest.subject0648en_US
dc.proquestyesYesen_US
dc.publisherLethbridge, Alta : University of Lethbridge, Dept. of Kinesiology and Physical Educationen_US
dc.publisher.departmentDepartment of Kinesiology and Physical Educationen_US
dc.publisher.facultyArts and Scienceen_US
dc.relation.ispartofseriesThesis (University of Lethbridge. Faculty of Arts and Science)en_US
dc.subjecthandsen_US
dc.subjectperceptionen_US
dc.subjectsomatosensoryen_US
dc.titleAn investigation of the distorted characteristics of hand representationen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US
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