Dynamic touch.
People can perceive a number of spatial and other properties of objects, without the benefit of vision, simply by wielding and hefting the objects. A variety of recent experiments are reported, showing that in this kind of touching, which is closely connected with the states of muscles, the nervous system cleverly exploits the physics of rotations.
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Center for the Ecological Study of Perception and Action, Department of Psychology, University of Connecticut, Storrs 06269-1020, USA. cespal@uconnvm.uconn.edu
D004193:Discrimination Learning / Q000502:physiology; D006801:Humans; D018482:Muscle, Skeletal / Q000294:innervation; D009903:Optical Illusions / Q000502:physiology; D011597:Psychomotor Performance / Q000502:physiology; D012399:Rotation; D011984:Sensory Receptor Cells / Q000502:physiology; D012858:Size Perception / Q000502:physiology; D013236:Stereognosis / Q000502:physiology; D014110:Touch / Q000502:physiology; D014892:Weight Perception / Q000502:physiology