Chapter 7

Visuo-haptic object perception

Simon Lacey 1 , 2 , and K. Sathian 1 , 2       1 Department of Neurology, Neural & Behavioral Sciences, and Psychology, Pennsylvania State University, Hershey, PA, United States      2 Departments of Neurology and Psychology, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, United States

Abstract

Vision and touch have many similarities in their processing of information, manifested in multiple behavioral similarities in terms of categorization, recognition, and individual differences. This chapter reviews how these similarities contribute to multisensory object processing. For example, similar unisensory visual and haptic representations are integrated into a multisensory representation that supports both ...

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