Haptic integration of planar size with hardness, texture, and planar contour.

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Three studies investigate the role of size information in haptic classification of custom-made planar objects when size covaries with hardness, texture, or planar contour. The haptic exploratory procedure (Lederman and Klatzky, 1987) associated with size extraction is also sufficient for encoding shape, which should promote their integration. Experiment 1 showed substantial facilitation of classification by redundant size and shape cues, indicating the coprocessing of size and shape. Experiments 2 and 3 used a withdrawal paradigm: Classification trials began with two redundant properties, and one was then held constant (withdrawn). Experiment 2 showed that when size and shape were redundant, withdrawal of either impaired responses, whereas when size was redundant with texture or hardness, only size withdrawal had an effect. Experiment 3 demonstrated that this size weighting was not restricted to a single procedure for exploration. Size appears to be highly weighted in haptic classification and potentially integrated with other properties having compatible methods of extraction.

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