We use an adaptation paradigm to study perceived speed of a moving surface, and its relationship with direction of motion.
Little is known about how the speed of a moving surface is perceived, and this is crucial for understanding functional mechanisms of tactile perception. One explanation for this is that the speed is accounted for in the neural computation of surface features –. Furthermore, the speed of such motion can vary without affecting performance.
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This does not alter the authors’ adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.Įxploratory movement of the fingers across a surface is crucial for determining the physical properties of that surface and when humans discriminate different surfaces based on their roughness, performance is better when there is relative motion between the skin and the surface. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.Ĭompeting interests: AOH is a PLOS ONE Editorial Board member. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.įunding: The study was supported by the Australian Research Council Future Fellowship ( ) to AOH and ARC Discovery Project (( ) DP110104691 to TS-C and IB.
Received: ApAccepted: AugPublished: September 24, 2012Ĭopyright: © McIntyre et al. Citation: McIntyre S, Holcombe AO, Birznieks I, Seizova-Cajic T (2012) Tactile Motion Adaptation Reduces Perceived Speed but Shows No Evidence of Direction Sensitivity.
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