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Vision and active touch lead to similar patterns of constant error for the perception of interpolated position in twodimensional and one-dimensional regions, though the errors for touch are larger than those for vision. The error patterns for the orientation of a radius of a semicircle are more complex, but can be interpreted as due to the interaction of two sets of anchors rather than the single pair available for the linear interpolation. The greater size of the touch errors is interpreted as due to a relative overestimation of larger distances by active touch or of smallerdistances by vision.
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Lederman, S.J., Taylor, M.M. Perception of interpolated position and orientation by vision and active touch. Perception & Psychophysics 6, 153–159 (1969). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03210083
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