A neurocognitive pathway for engineering artificial touch

I Nisky, TR Makin - Science advances, 2024 - science.org
Artificial haptics has the potential to revolutionize the way we integrate physical and virtual
technologies in our daily lives, with implications for teleoperation, motor skill acquisition …

Environmental consistency modulation of error sensitivity during motor adaptation is explicitly controlled

G Avraham, M Keizman… - Journal of …, 2020 - journals.physiology.org
Motor adaptation, the adjustment of a motor output in face of changes in the environment,
may operate at different rates. When human participants encounter repeated or consistent …

Human-in-the-loop stability analysis of haptic rendering with time delay–the effect of delayed feedback control in the operator model

R Nomberg, I Nisky - IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Stability analysis in haptic systems with delay most often overlooks the impact of the
operator, resulting in conservative stability boundaries that limit the effectiveness of haptic …

During haptic communication, the central nervous system compensates distinctly for delay and noise

J Eden, E Ivanova, E Burdet - PLOS Computational Biology, 2024 - journals.plos.org
Physically connected humans have been shown to exploit the exchange of haptic forces and
tactile information to improve their performance in joint action tasks. As human interactions …

State-based delay representation and its transfer from a game of pong to reaching and tracking

G Avraham, R Leib, A Pressman, LS Simo, A Karniel… - eneuro, 2017 - eneuro.org
To accurately estimate the state of the body, the nervous system needs to account for delays
between signals from different sensory modalities. To investigate how such delays may be …

Effects of visuomotor delays on the control of movement and on perceptual localization in the presence and absence of visual targets

G Avraham, E Sulimani… - Journal of …, 2019 - journals.physiology.org
The sensory system constantly deals with delayed feedback. Recent studies showed that
playing a virtual game of pong with delayed feedback caused hypermetric reaching …

The absence or temporal offset of visual feedback does not influence adaptation to novel movement dynamics

E McKenna, LCJ Bray, W Zhou… - Journal of …, 2017 - journals.physiology.org
Delays in transmitting and processing sensory information require correctly associating
delayed feedback to issued motor commands for accurate error compensation. The flexibility …

The effect of tactile augmentation on manipulation and grip force control during force-field adaptation

C Avraham, I Nisky - Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation, 2020 - Springer
Background When exposed to a novel dynamic perturbation, participants adapt by changing
their movements' dynamics. This adaptation is achieved by constructing an internal …

Visuomotor resolution in telerobotic grasping with transmission delays

O Afgin, N Sagi, I Nisky, T Ganel… - Frontiers in Robotics and …, 2017 - frontiersin.org
Weber's law is among the basic psychophysical laws of human perception. It determines that
human sensitivity to change along a physical dimension, the just noticeable difference …

Artificial Tactile Stimulation Provides Haptic Cuing in Force Field Adaptation

C Avraham, G Avraham, I Nisky - bioRxiv, 2023 - biorxiv.org
When interacting with objects with unfamiliar dynamics, the sensorimotor system uses haptic
information to develop internal representations of the new dynamics. These representations …