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The senses considered as perceptual systems

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Measurement of sensory intensity

TL;DR: The physical correlate theory as mentioned in this paper, which considers judgments of subjective magnitudes to be based upon estimates of physical dimensions that vary regularly with changes in degree of stimulation, has attracted the attention of many disciplines including physiology, psychology, physics, mathematics, philosophy, and even chemistry.
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Multisensory information for human postural control: integrating touch and vision

TL;DR: It is suggested that the sensory fusion process behaved in an approximately linear fashion because the experimental paradigm tested postural control very close to the equilibrium point of vertical upright.
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Chapter 3 Action‐Based Model of Dissonance: A Review, Integration, and Expansion of Conceptions of Cognitive Conflict

TL;DR: In this paper, an action-based model of cognitive dissonance is presented, which accepts the original theory's proposal that a sufficient cognitive inconsistency causes the negative affective state of dissonance.
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Weight perception and the haptic size-weight illusion are functions of the inertia tensor.

TL;DR: In this article, the rotational inertia of wielded, occluded objects was varied independently of mass, size, and torque, and the perceived heaviness depended only on rotational intertia.
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Motion perception during selfmotion: The direct versus inferential controversy revisited

TL;DR: The present theory describes the interface between self-motion and object-motion percepts and provides a new, unified framework for interpreting many phenomena in the field of motion perception.