Previous literature suggests that the visual dominance normally resulting from a visual-tactual shape conflict may be eliminated if the conflict is signalled by a cue other than the shape difference per se. The intent of the present study was to provide support for this notion by presenting a visual-tactual shape conflict in which the seen and felt objects were also spatially separated. Contrary to expectation, although a position difference did effectively alert the subject to the presence of a conflict, estimates of shape still reflected the visual and not the tactual information.
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