Project/Area Number |
20730471
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Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
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Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
Research Field |
Experimental psychology
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Research Institution | Tohoku University |
Principal Investigator |
WADA Yuichi Tohoku University, 大学院・情報科学研究科, 准教授 (80312635)
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Project Period (FY) |
2008 – 2009
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Project Status |
Completed (Fiscal Year 2009)
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Budget Amount *help |
¥2,600,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,000,000、Indirect Cost: ¥600,000)
Fiscal Year 2009: ¥650,000 (Direct Cost: ¥500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥150,000)
Fiscal Year 2008: ¥1,950,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥450,000)
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Keywords | クロスモーダル知覚 / 異種感覚間統合 / 視覚と触覚における交互作用 / 空間的注意 / 文脈的修飾 / パターン知覚 |
Research Abstract |
To investigate a possible locus of multisensory integration between vision and touch, I conducted a series of studies concerning the effects of spatial attention and contextual modulation on the perception of shape information of visual and tactile inputs. The main findings were as follows : (1)The integration process might occur at a stage of object-identification prior to attentional stages of information processing. (2)Contextual effects of flankers on the target detection (i.e., detection of a central Gabor stimulus is modulated by the presence of collinear flanker stimuli) could occur in a cross-modal setting (a central visual target and tactile flankers). In sum, these findings suggest that the integration process could occur at a relatively early perceptual processing stage of perceptual grouping prior to attentional selection.
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