Visual Effects of Haptic Feedback Are Large but Local

Vision generally provides reliable predictions for touch and motor-control, but some classes of stimuli evoke visual illusions. Using haptic feedback on virtual 3-D surfaces, we tested the function of touch in such cases. Our experiments show that in the perception of 3-D shapes from texture cues, haptic information can dominate vision in some cases, changing percepts qualitatively from convex to concave and concave to slant. The effects take time to develop, do not outlive the cessation of the feedback, are attenuated by distance, and drastically reduced by gaps in the surface. These dynamic shifts in qualitative perceived shapes could be invaluable in neural investigations that test whether haptic feedback modifies selective activation of neurons or changes the shape-tuning of neurons responsible for percepts of 3-D shapes.

• Publication year

  2011

• Venue

  PLoS ONE

• Publication date

  2011-05-10

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Computer Science, Psychology

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  DOI 10.1371/journal.pone.0019877PMID 21572964PMCID 3091883
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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