The commentaries have raised important points regarding different aspects of our model.
Some have queried the nature of the proposed dissociations, whereas others have …

This paper reviews some of our recent research on haptic exploration, perception and
recognition of multidimensional objects. We begin by considering the nature of manual …

Out of all the human senses, touch is the one that is most often unappreciated, and
undervalued. Yet, the surface of the human body, the skin, is actually one huge sheet of …

Human Hand Function is a multidisciplinary book that reviews the sensory and motor
aspects of normal hand function from both neurophysiological and behavioral perspectives …

The purpose of this study was to examine the subjective dimensionality of tactile surface
texture perception. Seventeen tactile stimuli, such as wood, sandpaper, and velvet, were …

Infants master crawling and walking in an environment filled with varied and unfamiliar
surfaces. At the same time, infants' bodies and skills continually change. The changing …

Ratio scaling was used to obtain from 5 subjects estimates of the subjective dissimilarity
between the members of all possible pairs of 17 tactile surfaces. The stimuli were a diverse …

Two experiments addressed initiation of haptic exploration to encode object properties when
vision is present. Ss compared pairs of objects on designated properties, using only vision …

In Experiment 1, haptically available object properties that would be diagnostic for
constrained common object classification at the basic and subordinate levels were elicited in …

The present study investigated the perceptual dimensions of everyday tactile textures and
the semantics associated with touch experiences. In Experiment 1, the nature of the tactile …