Attentional process of haptics: psychological and physiological experiments

2014 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 22300091
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)
• Allocation Type: Single-year Grants
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Cognitive science
• Research Institution: Kobe University
• Principal Investigator: KITA Shinichi 神戸大学, 人文学研究科, 教授 (10224940)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): MATSUMOTO Eriko 神戸大学, 大学院国際文化学研究科, 准教授 (00403212) ; TSUJIMOTO Satoshi 神戸大学, 大学院人間発達環境学研究科, 准教授 (20539241) ; NOGUCHI Yasuki 神戸大学, 大学院文化学研究科, 准教授 (90546582) ; TERAMOTO Wataru 室蘭工業大学, 大学院工学研究科, 准教授 (30509089) ; YAMAGUCHI Toshimitsu 新潟大学, 大学院工学研究科, 助教 (40554283)
• Project Period (FY): 2010-04-01 – 2015-03-31
• Keywords: 触覚 / 感覚 / 注意 / 視覚障害

Outline of Final Research Achievements

The present study was aimed to examine mechanisms for the information processing for touch by finger tips, by performing psychological and physiological experiments to elucidate haptics or tactile attention. We conducted experiments of haptic search by sighted people to examine the prevalence effect, which had been examined in visual search, and did experiments of tactile maps by sighted and blind people. By measuring spatiotemporal property of those search processes, we clarified the mechanisms of attentional process in haptics.

Free Research Field

認知科学