This paper surveys the research literature on robust tactile and haptic illusions. The illusions
are organized into two categories. The first category relates to objects and their properties …

Tactile memory systems are involved in the storage and retrieval of information about stimuli
that impinge on the body surface and objects that people explore haptically. Here, the …

Out of all the human senses, touch is the one that is most often unappreciated, and
undervalued. Yet, the surface of the human body, the skin, is actually one huge sheet of …

Human Hand Function is a multidisciplinary book that reviews the sensory and motor
aspects of normal hand function from both neurophysiological and behavioral perspectives …

Problems in linking representation and perceived things in the world are discussed in light of
the role played by a preconceptual indexing mechanism that functions to identify, reidentify …

This book reviews the considerable body of research that has been done to evaluate the
touch skills of blind people. With an emphasis on cognitive and neuroscientific approaches …

This chapter describes a sensory modality that underlies the most common everyday
activities: maintaining one's posture, scratching an itch, or picking up a spoon. As a topic of …

This paper surveys more than twenty types of tactile illusions and discusses several of their
aspects. These aspects include the ease with which they can be demonstrated and whether …

Real-world scene perception can often involve more than one sensory modality. Here we
investigated the visual, haptic and crossmodal recognition of scenes of familiar objects. In …

The relationship between visually and haptically derived representations of objects is an
important question in multisensory processing and, increasingly, in mental representation …