ArticleNeuroImage2016
Look but don't touch: Visual cues to surface structure drive somatosensory cortex.
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- Visual categorisation of images of familiar objects based on their authenticity: an fMRI study.Experimental brain research · 2025Article
- Active touch in tactile perceptual discrimination: brain activity and behavioral responses to surface differences.Experimental brain research · 2025Article
- Neural substrates underlying multisensory stiffness perception via active touch and dynamic visual feedback.Imaging neuroscience (Cambridge, Mass.) · 2025Article
- Modality-Independent Effect of Gravity in Shaping the Internal Representation of 3D Space for Visual and Haptic Object Perception.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2024Article
- Sustainable materials: a linking bridge between material perception, affordance, and aesthetics.Frontiers in psychology · 2023Review
- Cross-Modal Interactions of the Tactile System.Current directions in psychological science · 2022Article
- Roughness perception: A multisensory/crossmodal perspective.Attention, perception & psychophysics · 2022Review
- How Tilting the Head Interferes With Eye-Hand Coordination: The Role of Gravity in Visuo-Proprioceptive, Cross-Modal Sensory Transformations.Frontiers in integrative neuroscience · 2022Article
- Neuroplasticity and Crossmodal Connectivity in the Normal, Healthy Brain.Psychology & neuroscience · 2021Article
- Visual motion information modulates tactile roughness perception.Scientific reports · 2020Article
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- Differential processing of binocular and monocular gloss cues in human visual cortex.Journal of neurophysiology · 2016Article
- Image Statistics and the Representation of Material Properties in the Visual Cortex.Frontiers in psychology · 2016Article
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Abstract
When planning interactions with nearby objects, our brain uses visual information to estimate shape, material composition, and surface structure before we come into contact with them. Here we analyse brain activations elicited by different types of visual appearance, measuring fMRI responses to objects that are glossy, matte, rough, or textured. In addition to activation in visual areas, we found that fMRI responses are evoked in the secondary somatosensory area (S2) when looking at glossy and rough surfaces. This activity could be reliably discriminated on the basis of tactile-related visual properties (gloss, rough, and matte), but importantly, other visual properties (i.e., coloured texture) did not substantially change fMRI activity. The activity could not be solely due to tactile imagination, as asking explicitly to imagine such surface properties did not lead to the same results. These findings suggest that visual cues to an object's surface properties evoke activity in neural circuits associated with tactile stimulation. This activation may reflect the a-priori probability of the physics of the interaction (i.e., the expectation of upcoming friction) that can be used to plan finger placement and grasp force.
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