Stretching the skin of the fingertip creates a perceptual and motor illusion of touching a harder spring
Mor Farajian, Raz Leib, Tomer Zaidenberg, Ferdinando A. Mussa-Ivaldi, Ilana Nisky
The paper investigates how artificial skin-stretch affects stiffness perception and grip force adjustment, finding a linear relationship between stretch amplitude and perceptual illusion.
bioRxiv · Jan 22, 2018 · PreprintNeuroscience