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Twenty-two students made magnitude estimates of the lengths of rods held between their index fingers (haptic condition) and also estimates of the separation of their index fingers without the rods present (kinesthetic condition). The rods ranged in length from 0.70 to 33 in. increasing in length by approximately equal logarithmic steps. The exponents of the power functions for magnitude estimates of length under haptic and kinesthetic conditions were 1.05 and 0.94 respectively.
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Stanley, G. Haptic and kinesthetic estimates of length. Psychon Sci 5, 377–378 (1966). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03328447
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