Haptic Object Recognition is View-Independent in Early Blind but not Sighted People
| Autor: | Valeria Occelli, Krishnankutty Sathian, Careese Stephens, Simon Lacey, Thomas John |
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| Rok vydání: | 2015 |
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Adult
Male Rotation genetic structures Experimental and Cognitive Psychology Blindness behavioral disciplines and activities Article 050105 experimental psychology Task (project management) 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Artificial Intelligence Humans 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Object perception Haptic technology Communication business.industry 05 social sciences Cognitive neuroscience of visual object recognition Recognition Psychology Middle Aged Object (philosophy) eye diseases Sensory Systems body regions Form Perception Ophthalmology Identification (information) Touch Perception Case-Control Studies Pattern Recognition Physiological ComputingMilieux_COMPUTERSANDSOCIETY Female Haptic perception business Psychology psychological phenomena and processes 030217 neurology & neurosurgery Cognitive psychology |
| Zdroj: | Perception. 45:337-345 |
| ISSN: | 1468-4233 0301-0066 |
| Popis: | Object recognition, whether visual or haptic, is impaired in sighted people when objects are rotated between learning and test, relative to an unrotated condition, that is, recognition is view-dependent. Loss of vision early in life results in greater reliance on haptic perception for object identification compared with the sighted. Therefore, we hypothesized that early blind people may be more adept at recognizing objects despite spatial transformations. To test this hypothesis, we compared early blind and sighted control participants on a haptic object recognition task. Participants studied pairs of unfamiliar three-dimensional objects and performed a two-alternative forced-choice identification task, with the learned objects presented both unrotated and rotated 180° about the y-axis. Rotation impaired the recognition accuracy of sighted, but not blind, participants. We propose that, consistent with our hypothesis, haptic view-independence in the early blind reflects their greater experience with haptic object perception. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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