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Visual and Haptic Integration in the Estimation of Softness of Deformable Objects

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العنوان: Visual and Haptic Integration in the Estimation of Softness of Deformable Objects
المؤلفون: Cristiano Cellini, Lukas Kaim, Knut Drewing
المصدر: i-Perception, Vol 4 (2013)
بيانات النشر: SAGE Publishing, 2013.
سنة النشر: 2013
المجموعة: LCC:Psychology
مصطلحات موضوعية: Psychology, BF1-990
الوصف: Softness perception intrinsically relies on haptic information. However, through everyday experiences we learn correspondences between felt softness and the visual effects of exploratory movements that are executed to feel softness. Here, we studied how visual and haptic information is integrated to assess the softness of deformable objects. Participants discriminated between the softness of two softer or two harder objects using only-visual, only-haptic or both visual and haptic information. We assessed the reliabilities of the softness judgments using the method of constant stimuli. In visuo-haptic trials, discrepancies between the two senses' information allowed us to measure the contribution of the individual senses to the judgments. Visual information (finger movement and object deformation) was simulated using computer graphics; input in visual trials was taken from previous visuo-haptic trials. Participants were able to infer softness from vision alone, and vision considerably contributed to bisensory judgments (∼35%). The visual contribution was higher than predicted from models of optimal integration (senses are weighted according to their reliabilities). Bisensory judgments were less reliable than predicted from optimal integration. We conclude that the visuo-haptic integration of softness information is biased toward vision, rather than being optimal, and might even be guided by a fixed weighting scheme.
نوع الوثيقة: article
وصف الملف: electronic resource
اللغة: English
تدمد: 2041-6695
Relation: https://doaj.org/toc/2041-6695
DOI: 10.1068/i0598
URL الوصول: https://doaj.org/article/67b61b0dcc114116a0c9fc6e8dd926dc
رقم الانضمام: edsdoj.67b61b0dcc114116a0c9fc6e8dd926dc
قاعدة البيانات: Directory of Open Access Journals
الوصف
تدمد:20416695
DOI:10.1068/i0598