Haptic exploration and object representation

Abstract

(from the chapter) discussion focuses primarily on the use of exploratory movements for the purposes of haptic perception and recognition /// consider the relations between haptic exploration and manipulation of objects /// image-mediation model of haptics / direct apprehension model of haptics /// links between classes of object knowledge and exploratory procedures / the sequence of haptic processing / the nature of the correspondence between haptic and visual processing /// the work reported here constitutes one of the first attempts to provide a comprehensive conceptual framework and a systematic empirical program for developing a model of human haptic object exploration and processing /// the work also has considerable potential for the new field of perceptual robotics (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2004 APA, all rights reserved)