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The Effect of Movement Direction on Spatial Frequency Discrimination in

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 The Effect of Movement Direction
on Spatial Frequency Discrimination
in Oriented Textures
Didem Katircilar & Knut Drewing
Introduction Results
People tend to use specific exploratory movements [1] and adapt their
movements according to task and stimulus. They adjust their force according
to the softness of the stimuli [2], and their movement direction according to
texture orientation [3] or according to exploration-related sensory noise [4].
Here, we studied how movement direction of the finger and glove use affect
texture perception and associated movement control.
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We hypothesized:

• Gloves should increase the relevancy of temporal cues to spatial

frequency due to decreasing spatial sensitivity with gloves [5], and
consequently slow down movement velocity. It also might result in
impairment in the discrimination performance.
Participants applied more force in the anteroposterior
• When exploring in anteroposterior as compared to lateral direction force condition than in the lateral condition.
should be increased to counteract worse precision in anteroposterior than
lateral condition [4]. Discrimination performance might also be impaired
when exploring in anteroposterior as compared to lateral orientation. *

Method *

We used oriented texture that foster the

relevancy of movement-related temporal
cues (high spatial periods > 10 mm) as
stimuli. We used 1 standard (15.3 mm)
and 8 comparison stimuli (11.3, 12.3,
13.3, 14.3, 16.3, 17.3, 18.3, 19.3) by
following the method of constant stimuli. Participants stroke their finger on the surfaces slower
in the glove condition than in bare finger condition.
They explored stimuli faster in anteroposterior
condition than in lateral condition.

Participants performed a two-interval

forced choice task choosing in each trial
the stimulus with higher frequency.

They performed the task stroking in

anteroposterior and lateral orientation
(within participant) and using a glove vs.
the bare finger condition (between
participant).
There is no difference for JNDs regarding either
orientation or glove vs. bare finger condition.
Discussion
Participants adapt their movement parameters according to exploratory constraints in spatial frequency discrimination task, mostly as expected:
• They applied more force in anteroposterior orientation than in lateral orientation. People might perceive small shapes better in lateral than
anteroposterior orientation as in [4] due to tactile anisotropy of fingertip spatial sensitivity, and counteract that by increasing force [6].
• They stroked their finger on the stimuli slower in glove condition than bare finger condition. This finding might suggest participants can improve
their perceptual precision by slowing down. However why they explored the stimuli faster in anteroposterior direction than in lateral direction
is still less clear.
• There is no difference in JNDs regarding orientation and glove vs. bare finger condition.
Overall these results might suggest that participants could maintain perceptual performance by adapting their movements without loss of
accuracy in line with the previous studies [7], [8].
References
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[2] Kaim, L., & Drewing, K. (2011). Exploratory strategies in haptic softness discrimination are tuned to achieve high levels of task performance. IEEE Transactions on Haptics, 4(4), 242-252.
[3] Lezkan, A., & Drewing, K. (2018). Interdependences between finger movement direction and haptic perception of oriented textures. Plos one, 13(12), e0208988.
[4] Drewing, K. (2012). After experience with the task humans actively optimize shape discrimination in touch by utilizing effects of exploratory movement direction. Acta psychologica, 141(3), 295-303.
[5] Gamzu, E., & Ahissar, E. (2001). Importance of temporal cues for tactile spatial-frequency discrimination. Journal of Neuroscience, 21(18), 7416-7427.
[6] Gibson, G. O., & Craig, J. C. (2005). Tactile spatial sensitivity and anisotropy. Perception & Psychophysics, 67(6), 1061-1079.
[7] Lederman, S. J. (1983). Tactual roughness perception: spatial and temporal determinants. Canadian Journal of Psychology/Revue canadienne de psychologie, 37(4), 498.
[8] Boundy-Singer, Z. M., Saal, H. P., & Bensmaia, S. J. (2017). Speed invariance of tactile texture perception. Journal of neurophysiology, 118(4), 2371-2377.
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