Affective Evaluation for Material Perception of Bead-Coated Resin Surfaces Using Visual and Tactile Sensations: Preparation of Adjective Pairs to Clarify the Color Effect

Individuals with mirror-touch synaesthesia report consciously feeling tactile sensations on their own body when they see another person being touched. They have what may be called vicarious tactile sensations. Vicarious tactile sensations may almost seem unbelievable. How could one feel from the inside someone else’s sensations? First, I will focus on the intersubjective dimension of vicarious touch. In particular, I will examine whether it constitutes a kind of empathy. I will then argue that vicarious touch cannot be taken as evidence in favour of embodied social cognition. Second, I will focus on the intermodal dimension of vicarious touch. I will show how it differs from standard cases of idiosyncratic synaesthesia. I will then argue that it is a by-product of the multimodal nature of non-vicarious bodily experiences.

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Simultaneous-integrated evaluation of mechanical–thermal sensory attributes of woven fabrics in considering practical wearing states

Textile Research Journal ◽

10.1177/00405175211019903 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 004051752110199

Author(s):

Ling Liu ◽

Li Wei ◽

Fengxin Sun

Keyword(s):

Thermal Property ◽

Comprehensive Evaluation ◽

Thermal Sensation ◽

Infrared Detector ◽

Woven Fabrics ◽

Infrared Transmission ◽

Touch Sensation ◽

Application Requirements ◽

Infrared Detector Array ◽

Tactile Sensations

Tactile sensations of fabrics are the primary property determining the wearing comfort of clothing; however, comprehensive evaluation of the fabric tactile property by considering the flexural buckling of fabrics under high curvature, hysteresis performance and thermal property has not been fully studied, leading to a clear gap between the existing measurement methods and application requirements. Herein, a simultaneous-integrated testing method, namely the Touch Sensation Tester for Fabrics (TST-F) was introduced to evaluate the mechanical–thermal sensory properties of woven fabrics. The introduced instrument used one device with a single mechanical sensor to test various mechanical properties by constructing different deformations of fabrics, and the thermal property was simultaneously measured using an infrared detector array, achieving an efficient characterization of the mechanical–thermal sensation properties of textiles. The measurement capacity and repeatability of the TST-F were statistically analyzed; the measurement indices and their relation with fabric mechanical–thermal sensation properties were also exhibited. Results showed that the TST-F was promising to characterize fabric touch sensations in terms of bending stiffness, compression softness with wrinkling, stretching tightness and thermal comfort by considering the infrared transmission and heat conductivity of textiles.

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Studying the sense of agency in the absence of motor movement: an investigation into temporal binding of tactile sensations and auditory effects

Experimental Brain Research ◽

10.1007/s00221-021-06087-8 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

S. Antusch ◽

R. Custers ◽

H. Marien ◽

H. Aarts

Keyword(s):

Intentional Action ◽

Tactile Sensation ◽

Temporal Binding ◽

Motor Action ◽

Motor Movement ◽

Sensory Effects ◽

Motor Movements ◽

Bodily Sensations ◽

Tactile Sensations ◽

Intentional Movement

AbstractPeople form coherent representations of goal-directed actions. Such agency experiences of intentional action are reflected by a shift in temporal perception: self-generated motor movements and subsequent sensory effects are perceived to occur closer together in time—a phenomenon termed intentional binding. Building on recent research suggesting that temporal binding occurs without intentionally performing actions, we further examined whether such perceptual compression occurs when motor action is fully absent. In three experiments, we used a novel sensory-based adaptation of the Libet clock paradigm to assess how a brief tactile sensation on the index finger and a resulting auditory stimulus perceptually bind together in time. Findings revealed robust temporal repulsion (instead of binding) between tactile sensation and auditory effect. Temporal repulsion was attenuated when participants could anticipate the identity and temporal onset (two crucial components of intentional action) of the tactile sensation. These findings are briefly discussed in the context of differences between intentional movement and anticipated bodily sensations in shaping action coherence and agentic experiences.

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Investigation of the color effect of the test object on the pupil response

Journal of Physics Conference Series ◽

10.1088/1742-6596/1124/3/031016 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 1124 ◽

pp. 031016 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

D Bobrova ◽

N Bikberdina ◽

M Boronenko

Keyword(s):

Test Object ◽

Pupil Response ◽

Color Effect

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