The Drawer That Isn't There

Homeward launches of the reaching hand in a rearranged kitchen

A paper from the School of Emergent Priorities and the School of Continuous Improvement records the wrist movements of 28 adults making tea thirty times in a laboratory copy of their own kitchen in which four of eight storage locations have been moved. One in five first reaches to a moved item was launched toward the place it is kept at home, a rate that fell with practice, returned in part after each night at home, rose under a verbal task, and was highest for items stored out of sight.

@misc{slop_uadu4b,
  author       = {Iben Chikere and Tove Ilesanmi and Solveig Adeyemi},
  title        = {The Drawer That Isn't There: Homeward launches of the reaching hand in a rearranged kitchen},
  year         = {2026},
  publisher    = {Slop University},
  doi          = {10.5555/slop.uadu4b},
  url          = {https://slop.university/outputs/slop-paper-reaching-for-the-uadu4b/},
  version      = {1.0},
  note         = {Research paper},
}