Visuo-tactile interactions are dependent on the predictive value of the visual stimulus

• Published in: Neuropsychologia Vol. 70; pp. 358 - 366
• Main Authors: Kandula, Manasa, Hofman, Dennis, Dijkerman, H. Chris
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: England Elsevier Ltd 01.04.2015
• Subjects: Adolescent; Adult; Analysis of Variance; Female; Humans; Judgment - physiology; Male; Movement; Perceptual Masking; Peripersonal space; Personal Space; Photic Stimulation; Prediction; Predictive Value of Tests; Reaction Time - physiology; Time Perception; Touch; Touch - physiology; Vision, Ocular - physiology; Visual Perception; Visuo-tactile interactions; Young Adult; Visuo-tactile interactions; Touch; Peripersonal space; Prediction

In this study we aimed to explore the predictive link between visual stimuli moving towards the body and the tactile consequences that follow. More specifically, we tested if information derived from an approaching visual stimulus in the region directly surrounding the body (the peripersonal space)...