Exploring Reference Frame Integration Using Response Demands in a Tactile Temporal-Order Judgement Task.

Exploring the world through touch requires the integration of internal (e.g., anatomical) and external (e.

Comparing Tactile to Auditory Guidance for Blind Individuals.

The ability to travel independently is crucial to an individual's quality of life but compromised by visual impairment. Several navigational aids have been developed for blind people to address this limitation. These devices typically employ auditory instructions to guide users to desired waypoints.

Tuning for rate and duration of frequency-modulated sweeps in the mammalian inferior colliculus.

Responses of auditory duration-tuned neurons (DTNs) are selective for stimulus duration. We used single-unit extracellular recording to investigate how the inferior colliculus (IC) encodes frequency-modulated (FM) sweeps in the big brown bat. It was unclear whether the responses of so-called "FM DTNs" encode signal duration, like classic pure-tone DTNs, or the FM sweep rate.

An Adaptation-Induced Repulsion Illusion in Tactile Spatial Perception.

Following focal sensory adaptation, the perceived separation between visual stimuli that straddle the adapted region is often exaggerated. For instance, in the tilt aftereffect illusion, adaptation to tilted lines causes subsequently viewed lines with nearby orientations to be perceptually repelled from the adapted orientation. Repulsion illusions in the nonvisual senses have been less studied.

Tactile length contraction as Bayesian inference.

To perceive, the brain must interpret stimulus-evoked neural activity. This is challenging: The stochastic nature of the neural response renders its interpretation inherently uncertain. Perception would be optimized if the brain used Bayesian inference to interpret inputs in light of expectations derived from experience.