The combination of vision and touch depends on spatial proximity

• Published in: Journal of vision (Charlottesville, Va.) Vol. 5; no. 11; pp. 1013 - 1023
• Main Authors: Gepshtein, Sergei, Burge, Johannes, Ernst, Marc O, Banks, Martin S
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States 28.12.2005
• Subjects: Adult; Discrimination, Psychological - physiology; Humans; Male; Models, Psychological; Nervous System Physiological Phenomena; Orientation; Photic Stimulation; Physical Stimulation; Size Perception; Space Perception - physiology; Task Performance and Analysis; Touch - physiology; Vision, Ocular - physiology

The nervous system often combines visual and haptic information about object properties such that the combined estimate is more precise than with vision or haptics alone. We examined how the system determines when to combine the signals. Presumably, signals should not be combined when they come from...