The influence of two varieties of proprioceptive information on judgments of the spatial position of an object while the visual input is transformed

Abstract

This experiment was concerned with the effects of two varieties of proprioceptive activity on an experimentally induced inter-sensory conflict between vision and proprioception. Ss who were required to make contact with a bar while the visual input from the bar was transformed showed no difference in their subsequent judgments of horizontality of the bar compared to Ss who had no such prior contact. Over 10 trials, Ss showed a significant increase in the degree to which later responses corresponded with the transformed visual input. © 1968, Psychonomic Journals. All rights reserved.