Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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920682 | Acta Psychologica | 2006 | 22 Pages |
The present study examined the extent to which vision and touch are perceptually equivalent for texture information in adults. Using Garbin’s method [Garbin, C. P. (1988). Visual–haptic perceptual non-equivalence for shape information and its impact upon cross-modal performance. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 14, 547–553], we selected two sets of textures having high versus low cross-modal dissimilarity values between vision and touch (Experiment 1). The two sets of textures were then used as material in a cross-modal matching task (Experiment 2). Results showed that asymmetries occurred in the performances when the stimuli had high cross-modal dissimilarity values, but not when the stimuli had low cross-modal dissimilarity values. These results extend Garbin’s findings on shape information to the texture domain and support the idea that partial perceptual equivalence exists between vision and touch.