ABSTRACT
One of the explicit goals of the ecological approach to perception-action is to uncover stimulation patterns that are specific to perception of behaviorally relevant environmental properties. Another explicit goal of the ecological approach is to uncover how perception of affordances scale to the perceiver’s action capabilities. Importantly, differences in action capabilities are not limited to differences between different perceivers. The same perceiver can possess different action capabilities at different points in time depending on constraints such as posture. If perception of heaviness is perception of moveability, controllability, or steerability, and the ability to move, control, or steer objects differs in the preferred and non-preferred hands, then perceivers may show differences in the perception of heaviness in the preferred and non-preferred hands. These results suggest that any differences in action capabilities between the preferred and non-preferred hand do not create differences in perception of heaviness or in the variability of these perceptual reports.
