Time course of information processing in visual and haptic object classification

Vision identifies objects rapidly and efficiently. In contrast, object recognition by touch is much slower. Furthermore, haptics usually serially accumulates information from different parts of objects, whereas vision typically processes object information in parallel. Is haptic object identificatio...

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Main Authors: Jasna eMartinovic, Rebecca eLawson, Matt eCraddock
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2012-03-01
Series:Frontiers in Human Neuroscience
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fnhum.2012.00049/full