Unveiling interactions of spatial-temporal information in tactile motion perception
Boyi Qu, Xiaojun Tan, Zheng Tang, Haiming Wang, Lan Lan, Kenneth E Schriver, Gang Pan, Robert M Friedman, Hsin-Yi Lai · 2025
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Boyi Qu and co-authors study how touch senses motion on the fingertip, in a 2025 paper. Touch is active: fingers move to feel direction, speed, and texture. Space and time cues both feed that judgment. Past work looked at each cue alone, leaving their interplay unclear.
Two experiments gave healthy volunteers moving touch patterns on the finger pad. Direction, speed, and pattern spacing were varied. People reported what they felt. In the first test, direction errors warped in a pattern that depended on the quadrant, and speed did not change that warp. The second test split two kinds of judgment apart. The results show that touch motion is not read from one cue but built from cues that interact.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Boyi Qu, Xiaojun Tan, Zheng Tang, Haiming Wang, Lan Lan, Kenneth E Schriver, Gang Pan, Robert M Friedman, Hsin-Yi Lai |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2025 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 44 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |