Space constancy in form perception by the stick insect

1996 ◽  
Vol 83 (7) ◽  
pp. 323-324 ◽  
Author(s):  
L. Frantsevich ◽  
L. Frantsevich
Keyword(s):  
Stick Insect ◽  
Form Perception ◽  
Space Constancy

A preliminary semantic differential study on users' product form perception

2003 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shi-Jian Luo ◽  
Ming-Xi Tang ◽  
Shang-Shang Zhu ◽  
John Hamilton Frazer ◽  
Shou-Qian Sun ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Semantic Differential ◽  
Product Form ◽  
Form Perception

scholarly journals Temporal coherency of mechanical stimuli modulates tactile form perception

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Masashi Nakatani ◽  
Yasuaki Kobayashi ◽  
Kota Ohno ◽  
Masaaki Uesaka ◽  
Sayako Mogami ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Sensory Neuron ◽  
Sensory Neurons ◽  
Contact Surface ◽  
Relative Magnitude ◽  
Form Perception ◽  
Tangential Displacement ◽  
Surface Geometry ◽  
Tactile Stimuli ◽  
Surface Patterns ◽  
Temporal Coherency

AbstractThe human hand can detect both form and texture information of a contact surface. The detection of skin displacement (sustained stimulus) and changes in skin displacement (transient stimulus) are thought to be mediated in different tactile channels; however, tactile form perception may use both types of information. Here, we studied whether both the temporal frequency and the temporal coherency information of tactile stimuli encoded in sensory neurons could be used to recognize the form of contact surfaces. We used the fishbone tactile illusion (FTI), a known tactile phenomenon, as a probe for tactile form perception in humans. This illusion typically occurs with a surface geometry that has a smooth bar and coarse textures in its adjacent areas. When stroking the central bar back and forth with a fingertip, a human observer perceives a hollow surface geometry even though the bar is physically flat. We used a passive high-density pin matrix to extract only the vertical information of the contact surface, suppressing tangential displacement from surface rubbing. Participants in the psychological experiment reported indented surface geometry by tracing over the FTI textures with pin matrices of the different spatial densities (1.0 and 2.0 mm pin intervals). Human participants reported that the relative magnitude of perceived surface indentation steeply decreased when pins in the adjacent areas vibrated in synchrony. To address possible mechanisms for tactile form perception in the FTI, we developed a computational model of sensory neurons to estimate temporal patterns of action potentials from tactile receptive fields. Our computational data suggest that (1) the temporal asynchrony of sensory neuron responses is correlated with the relative magnitude of perceived surface indentation and (2) the spatiotemporal change of displacements in tactile stimuli are correlated with the asynchrony of simulated sensory neuron responses for the fishbone surface patterns. Based on these results, we propose that both the frequency and the asynchrony of temporal activity in sensory neurons could produce tactile form perception.

Outbreak of the stick insect, Ramulus mikado (Phasmatodea, Phasmatidae), in the Akashina area of Japan (Azumino City, Nagano Prefecture)

2021 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
pp. 196-200
Author(s):  
Koki Yano ◽  
Takahisa Ozaki ◽  
Tomoya Suzuki ◽  
Haruka Yamazaki ◽  
Masayoshi Nasuno ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Stick Insect ◽  
Nagano Prefecture

scholarly journals Form Perception in Stumptail Macaques Following Posterior Parietal and Lateral Frontal Lesions

Cortex ◽  
1977 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. 361-372 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elizabeth M. Ockleford ◽  
A.D. Milner ◽  
W. Dewar ◽  
I.A. Sneddon
Keyword(s):  
Form Perception ◽  
Posterior Parietal ◽  
Frontal Lesions

The development of luminance- and texture-defined form perception during the school-aged years

2010 ◽  
Vol 48 (10) ◽  
pp. 3080-3085 ◽  
Author(s):  
Armando Bertone ◽  
Julie Hanck ◽  
Jacalyn Guy ◽  
Kim Cornish
Keyword(s):  
Form Perception

Electrophysiological Correlates of Similarity-based Interference during Detection of Visual Forms

2006 ◽  
Vol 18 (6) ◽  
pp. 880-888 ◽  
Author(s):  
Markus Conci ◽  
Klaus Gramann ◽  
Hermann J. Müller ◽  
Mark A. Elliott
Keyword(s):  
Target Selection ◽  
Event Related Potentials ◽  
Form Perception ◽  
Psychological Review ◽  
Physiological Basis ◽  
Related Potentials ◽  
Kanizsa Figure ◽  
Global And Local ◽  
Selection Of ◽  
Form Information

Illusory figure completion demonstrates the ability of the visual system to integrate information across gaps. Mechanisms that underlie figural emergence support the interpolation of contours and the filling-in of form information [Grossberg, S., & Mingolla, E. Neural dynamics of form perception: Boundary completion, illusory figures and neon colour spreading. Psychological Review, 92, 173–211, 1985]. Although both processes contribute to figure formation, visual search for an illusory target configuration has been shown to be susceptible to interfering form, but not contour, information [Conci, M., Müller, H. J., & Elliott, M. A. The contrasting impact of global and local object attributes on Kanizsa figure detection. Submitted]. Here, the physiological basis of form interference was investigated by recording event-related potentials elicited from contour- and surface-based distracter interactions with detection of a target Kanizsa figure. The results replicated the finding of form interference and revealed selection of the target and successful suppression of the irrelevant distracter to be reflected by amplitude differences in the N2pc component (240–340 msec). In conclusion, the observed component variations reflect processes of target selection on the basis of integrated form information resulting from figural completion processes.

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