Citation

Picard D. Acta Psychol. 2006; 121(3): 227-248.

Affiliation

Department of Psychology, University of Montpellier III, Route de Mende, 34199 Montpellier, France. delphine.picard@univ-montp3.fr

Copyright

(Copyright © 2006, Elsevier Publishing)

DOI

10.1016/j.actpsy.2005.06.001

PMID

16359632

Abstract

The present study examined the extent to which vision and touch are perceptually equivalent for texture information in adults. Using Garbin's method, we selected two sets of textures having high versus low cross-modal dissimilarity values between vision and touch (Experiment 1). The two sets of textures were then used as material in a cross-modal matching task (Experiment 2). Results showed that asymmetries occurred in the performances when the stimuli had high cross-modal dissimilarity values, but not when the stimuli had low cross-modal dissimilarity values. These results extend Garbin's findings on shape information to the texture domain and support the idea that partial perceptual equivalence exists between vision and touch.

Language: en