10.26181/5c9c7450dd79a Philippe Chouinard Philippe Chouinard Cody Freeman Cody Freeman Elizabeth Saccone Elizabeth Saccone Cody Honours Study La Trobe 2019 size-weight illusion cognitive load dual-task weight perception somatosensory feedback Psychology and Cognitive Sciences not elsewhere classified 2019-08-04 08:59:30 Dataset https://opal.latrobe.edu.au/articles/dataset/Cody_Honours_Study/7906769 The size-weight illusion (SWI) pertains to the experience of perceiving the smaller of two equally weighted objects as heavier. Competing theories to explain the illusion can be generally grouped into cognitive and sensory<i> </i>theories, which place more importance on top-down processing of cognitive expectations and bottom-up processing of sensory information about the size and weight of objects, respectively. The current study examined the relative contribution of these two general explanations. This was done by varying the amounts of cognitive load in a dual-task and the quality of somatosensory feedback by wearing or not wearing gloves.