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The influence of perceived size and firmness on acceptability was also assessed.
Another notable difference is that most prior studies employed a forced choice task to obtain size judgments (i.e., large or small; e.g., Klink, 2000, 2009; Sapir, 1929), whereas we used a variety of less constraining measures of perceived size.
Moreover, posture failed to remain a significant predictor of dominance after the inclusion of perceived size into a second multiple regression analysis (Table 6).
Using birth weight could have introduced selection bias; therefore, use of perceived size at birth remained only viable option to report from the national survey.
We therefore sought to replicate their original measure of perceived size and also to extend their work by adding direct measures of perceived distance in a second experiment.
A similar association between birth weight, which has been found to be a measure of perceived size of the baby [ 24] and later risk for stunting has previously been documented in other low-income countries [ 15, 25].
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Another possible confound is that the differential BOLD activity reflected effects of distance on perceived size: distant objects that look bigger than identical objects closer to the observer have been claimed to activate a larger area in V1 (Murray et al. 2006; Fang et al. 2009).
The results once again showed a main effect of status level on perceived size, F 2, 18) = 72.29, p<.001, η2 = .89 (Table 4).
The main risk factors for stunting in the study were: age of the child, child's sex, maternal level of educational, perceived size of the child at birth, mother's age at child's birth, place of delivery, type of birth delivery assistance, maternal BMI and breastfeeding status of a child.
According to unadjusted analyses, sex and age of child, perceived size of child at birth, household assets, current breast feeding and presence of visible plaque in upper anterior teeth were statistically significantly associated with enamel defects (Table 4).
We found this own-body-size effect using a variety of measures: verbal estimation of object size and distance, indication of the perceived size with two hands (bimanual size estimation), and estimation of the perceived distance by walking that distance blindfolded.
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