Reduction of complex dynamic touch information to a single stable perceptual feature
Naghmeh Zamani, Benjamin Stephens-Fripp, Chase Tymms, Sonny Chan, Roham Pardakhtim, Heather Culbertson, Jess Hartcher-O’Brien
The paper investigates how hardness perception from brief taps is influenced by spectral energy and frequency cues, finding that spectral energy is a robust but not complete cue for material identification.
bioRxiv · Oct 8, 2026 · PreprintNeuroscience