Jess Hartcher-O’Brien

Reduction of complex dynamic touch information to a single stable perceptual feature

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.

Inside Out: Functional Flexibility in Assigning the Body's inside-outside

The paper shows tactile surface perception is not fixed but dynamically adjusted based on functional demands and visual experience.

Cue Integration of Texture and Elasticity Induces Roughness Metamers in Touch

The paper investigates how texture and elasticity jointly influence perceived roughness by identifying haptic roughness metamers through a Bayesian optimization task.

Haptic perception is contingent to hemispaces, not to hands

The paper shows that haptic perception differences are determined by the hemispace where the hand is located, not the hand itself.