2015 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
A classification of tactile illusions and information processing mechanisms of the illusions
Project/Area Number |
25540061
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Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research
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Allocation Type | Multi-year Fund |
Research Field |
Cognitive science
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Research Institution | Shizuoka Institute of Science and Technology |
Principal Investigator |
Miyaoka Tetsu 静岡理工科大学, 総合情報学部, 教授 (00111815)
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Co-Investigator(Renkei-kenkyūsha) |
OHKA Masahiro 名古屋大学, 情報科学研究科, 教授 (50233044)
KITADA Ryo 生理学研究所, 大学共同利用機関等の部局等, 助教 (50526027)
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Project Period (FY) |
2013-04-01 – 2016-03-31
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Keywords | 触覚 / 錯触 / 機械受容器 / 脳機能イメージング / 心理物理学 / 3Dプリンタ |
Outline of Final Research Achievements |
We performed psychophysical experiments for three typical examples of tactile illusions (a velvet hand illusion: VHI, a fishbone tactile illusion: FTI, and a lattice tactile illusion: LTI) and brain functional imaging experiments for the VHI. We supposed that virtual surfaces were produced in an observer's brain when suitable tactile stimuli were presented to observers. The observers feel tactile illusions when virtual-stimulus-surface characteristics do not match with the surface characteristics which the observers expected. We estimated that subjective frictions of the virtual surfaces were important to understand the tactile illusions. We need to pay attention that the subjective frictions are produced by the activities of nervous system and are different from the physical frictions.
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Free Research Field |
心理物理学
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