ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2021
Initial contact shapes the perception of friction.
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- The role of skin mechanics in contact force variation under different friction conditions.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- Frictional instabilities as an alternative to friction coefficient in fine touch perception.eLife · 2026Article
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- The role of skin hydration, skin deformability, and age in tactile friction and perception of materials.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Compressing slippery surface-assembled amphiphiles for tunable haptic energy harvesters.Science advances · 2025Article
- Grip force control under sudden change of friction.The Journal of physiology · 2025Article
- SORI: A softness-rendering interface to unravel the nature of softness perception.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2024Article
- Fast grip force adaptation to friction relies on localized fingerpad strains.Science advances · 2024Article
- How Tactile Afferents in the Human Fingerpad Encode Tangential Torques Associated with Manipulation: Are Monkeys Better than Us?The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2023Article
- Biomechanics of the finger pad in response to torsion.Journal of the Royal Society, Interface · 2023Article
- Rapid change of friction causes the illusion of touching a receding surface.Journal of the Royal Society, Interface · 2023Article
- Neural underpinnings of the interplay between actual touch and action imagination in social contexts.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2023Article
- Normal and tangential forces combine to convey contact pressure during dynamic tactile stimulation.Scientific reports · 2022Article
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- Faster Indentation Influences Skin Deformation To Reduce Tactile Discriminability of Compliant Objects.IEEE transactions on hapticsArticle
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5 authors at 3 institutions in 3 countries.
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Abstract
Humans efficiently estimate the grip force necessary to lift a variety of objects, including slippery ones. The regulation of grip force starts with the initial contact and takes into account the surface properties, such as friction. This estimation of the frictional strength has been shown to depend critically on cutaneous information. However, the physical and perceptual mechanism that provides such early tactile information remains elusive. In this study, we developed a friction-modulation apparatus to elucidate the effects of the frictional properties of objects during initial contact. We found a correlation between participants' conscious perception of friction and radial strain patterns of skin deformation. The results provide insights into the tactile cues made available by contact mechanics to the sensorimotor regulation of grip, as well as to the conscious perception of the frictional properties of an object.
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