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El. knyga: In touch with the future: The sense of touch from cognitive neuroscience to virtual reality [Oxford Scholarship Online E-books]

(Somerville College, Oxford, UK), (Department of Psychology, University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy)
  • Formatas: 480 pages
  • Išleidimo metai: 30-Jan-2014
  • Leidėjas: Oxford University Press
  • ISBN-13: 9780199644469
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  • Formatas: 480 pages
  • Išleidimo metai: 30-Jan-2014
  • Leidėjas: Oxford University Press
  • ISBN-13: 9780199644469
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Out of all the human senses, touch is the one that is most often unappreciated, and undervalued. Yet, the surface of the human body, the skin, is actually one huge sheet of tactile receptors. It provides us with the means to connect with our surroundings. Despite the important role that vision plays in our everyday lives, it is the skin that constitutes both the oldest, and by far the largest of our sense organs. The skin protects our body from the external world and, at the same time, informs us about what occurs on its surface.

In Touch With The Future explores the science of touch, bringing together the latest findings from cognitive neuroscience about the processing of tactile information in humans. The book provides a comprehensive overview of scientific knowledge regarding themes such as tactile memory, tactile awareness (consciousness), tactile attention, the role of touch in interpersonal and sexual interactions, and the neurological substrates of touch. It highlights the many ways in which our growing understanding of the world of touch can, and in some cases already are, being applied in the real world in everything from the development of virtual reality (VR) environments, tablet PCs, mobile phones, and even teledildonics - the ultimate frontier in terms of adult entertainment.

In addition, the book shows how the cognitive neuroscience approach to the study of touch can be applied to help improve the design of many real-world applications/products as well as to many of our everyday experiences, such as those related to the appreciation of food, marketing, packaging design, the development of enhanced sensory substitution systems, art, and man-machine interfaces. Crucially, the authors makes a convincing argument for the view that one cannot really understand touch, especially not in a real-world context, without placing it in a multisensory context. That is, the senses interact to influence tactile perception in everything - from changing the feel of a surface or product by changing the sound it makes or the fragrance it has.

For students and researchers in the brain sciences, this book presents a valuable and fascinating exploration into one of our least understood senses
Section A Touch in the laboratory 1: Introducing the sense of touch
1 Introduction
3(16)
1.1 The world of touch
3(7)
1.1.1 Touch makes real
3(7)
1.2 A brief story of tactile research
10(7)
1.3 Overview of the book
17(2)
2 The fundamentals of touch: The organization of the somatosensory system
19(17)
2.1 Introduction
19(2)
2.2 Tactile receptors
21(4)
2.3 Pathways for the conduction of tactile information to the central neural system
25(4)
2.3.1 CT fibers: A privileged pathway to pleasant tactile sensations
27(1)
2.3.2 Ascending neural pathways
28(1)
2.4 Touch in the central neural system
29(5)
2.4.1 The organization of the somatosensory cortex
29(4)
2.4.2 Bypassing S1: A second pathway for conducting tactile information?
33(1)
2.5 Conclusions
34(2)
3 Tactile perceptual organization
36(35)
3.1 Introduction
36(4)
3.2 Perceptual completion
40(6)
3.3 Proximity and similarity
46(7)
3.3.1 Using apparent motion to study the effect of proximity and similarity
47(3)
3.3.2 Does Gestalt grouping occur early or late in the processing of tactile information?
50(3)
3.4 The principle of "emergence": Figure/ground segregation in the tactile modality
53(4)
3.5 Common fate
57(1)
3.6 Subitizing and grouping in touch
58(2)
3.7 Grouping and the concept of the "tactile perceptual field"
60(1)
3.8 Grouping in multisensory scene perception
61(2)
3.9 Do crossmodal correspondences reflect crossmodal grouping by similarity?
63(1)
3.10 Conclusions
64(7)
Section B Touch in the laboratory 2: Higher-order factors affecting tactile perception
4 The awareness of touch
71(40)
4.1 Introduction
71(2)
4.2 Numerosity judgments (The "how many" question)
73(7)
4.2.1 Spatial numerosity judgments
74(3)
4.2.2 The perception of simultaneity and temporal numerosity judgments
77(3)
4.3 Change blindness
80(3)
4.4 Inattentional blindness
83(1)
4.5 Memory and consciousness: The "tactile present"
84(2)
4.6 Consciousness of tactile stimuli: The "where" problem (body, space, or both)
86(7)
4.6.1 Phantom sensations in amputated limbs
89(2)
4.6.2 A rabbit on the skin: The cutaneous saltation illusion
91(2)
4.7 Tactile hallucinations: When touch is in the mind of the beholder
93(2)
4.8 The neuropsychology of tactile consciousness: Numbsense, neglect, and extinction
95(7)
4.8.1 Spatial neglect and extinction
96(3)
4.8.2 Implicit processing of tactile information in neglect and extinction
99(3)
4.9 The psychophysiology of tactile consciousness
102(2)
4.10 Conclusions
104(7)
5 A memory for touch
111(36)
5.1 Introduction
111(3)
5.2 Peripheral and central tactile memory: An analogy with visual memory?
114(6)
5.2.1 People's memory for the location of touch
115(5)
5.3 Tactile representations: Are they really unisensory?
120(12)
5.3.1 Memory for objects that have been explored haptically
121(4)
5.3.2 Haptic memory for human faces
125(2)
5.3.3 Haptic memory for the body?
127(2)
5.3.4 Mental imagery and tactile memory
129(3)
5.4 Tactile memories in the blind
132(2)
5.5 The development of haptic memory
134(1)
5.6 An implicit memory for tactile sensations
135(3)
5.7 The neural correlates of tactile memory: A modular architecture?
138(6)
5.7.1 What versus where: A dual path system for the representation of touch?
142(2)
5.8 Conclusions
144(3)
6 Tactile attention
147(14)
6.1 Introduction
147(1)
6.2 Touch and attention
148(2)
6.3 Endogenous spatial attention
150(1)
6.4 Exogenous spatial attention
151(2)
6.5 The effect of postural changes on tactile attention
153(1)
6.6 Inhibition of return
154(1)
6.7 The top-down modulation of exogenous spatial orienting
154(2)
6.8 The attentional limitations on tactile information processing across the body surface
156(3)
6.9 Conclusions
159(2)
7 A caress on your skin: The social aspects of touch
161(20)
7.1 Introduction
161(2)
7.2 The effects of age, gender, and cultural differences on interpersonal touch
163(2)
7.3 Research on the consequences of interpersonal touch
165(8)
7.3.1 The healing power of touch?
170(1)
7.3.2 Touch between partners
171(2)
7.4 The neuroscientific aspects of interpersonal touch
173(3)
7.5 The development of touch as a communication system
176(2)
7.6 Conclusions
178(3)
8 Outside the boundaries of our bodies: The relationship between the sense of touch and the representation of the body in our mind
181(20)
8.1 Introduction
181(2)
8.2 The rubber hand illusion: When artificial objects become a part of us
183(5)
8.2.1 Enfacement
185(1)
8.2.2 The full-body illusion and the abandonment of one's own body
186(2)
8.3 Illusory modulation of body size (or the quickest way to lose weight!)
188(2)
8.4 Virtual bodies in virtual words
190(3)
8.4.1 From male to female with the click of a mouse
192(1)
8.5 The relationship between body and mind: Physiological consequences of modulations of body ownership
193(2)
8.6 Neural bases of body ownership
195(3)
8.6.1 Body ownership in the scanner
195(1)
8.6.2 The body matrix
196(2)
8.7 Conclusions
198(3)
Section C Touch in the real world 1: Overcoming the limitations in tactile information processing
9 Technologies of touch
201(28)
9.1 Introduction
201(2)
9.2 Touch in the operating theater: Robotic and virtual surgery
203(3)
9.3 Virtual touch: Touch in VR, haptic rendering
206(7)
9.4 Augmented reality in touch: A tool for facing sensory deprivation and decline
213(1)
9.5 Touch screens, touch devices, and tactile user interfaces
214(2)
9.6 Tactile sensory substitution systems
216(5)
9.7 Interpersonal touch in the era of virtual communication
221(4)
9.8 Teledildonics and the future of sex
225(3)
9.9 Conclusions
228(1)
10 Tactile and multisensory warning signals
229(16)
10.1 Introduction
229(1)
10.2 Assessing the costs and benefits of tactile warning signals and information displays
230(4)
10.3 Tactile alerting signals: Awakening the drowsy driver
234(1)
10.4 Tactile warning signals: Capturing the attention of the distracted driver
235(3)
10.5 Reducing the workload of the overloaded driver
238(1)
10.6 On the future of tactile information displays for drivers
239(1)
10.7 Conclusions
240(5)
Section D Touch in the real world 2: Enhancing the affective design of touch
11 Touch in the marketplace: Selling by means of touch
245(32)
11.1 Introduction
245(5)
11.2 Tactile product design
250(2)
11.2.1 Modeling multisensory product perception
251(1)
11.2.2 Maximum likelihood estimation in multisensory integration
252(1)
11.3 The customer's need for tactile input
252(10)
11.3.1 Touch hunger
252(1)
11.3.2 Touch as a useful tool in retailing
253(2)
11.3.3 Tactile properties and product evaluation
255(1)
11.3.4 The role of packaging in product evaluation
255(5)
11.3.5 Individual differences in the "need for touch"
260(2)
11.4 Tactile brands that aren't and others that might be
262(3)
11.5 The cognitive neuroscientific approach to tactile perception
265(3)
11.5.1 Cracking the brain's code for marketing purposes?
267(1)
11.5.2 Touch and pleasure
268(1)
11.6 Advertising a product's tactile qualities
268(2)
11.7 Current challenges for tactile marketing
270(5)
11.7.1 Tactile marketing for the graying population
270(1)
11.7.2 Directions for future research
271(3)
11.7.3 Tactile marketing in the era of virtual shopping
274(1)
11.8 Conclusions
275(2)
12 Touch in the museum: Sculpture, art, aesthetics, and visual impairment
277(18)
12.1 Introduction
277(2)
12.2 The artist's viewpoint
279(2)
12.3 Tactile and visual aesthetics: Similarities
281(4)
12.3.1 The Gestalt laws
282(1)
12.3.2 The average
282(1)
12.3.3 Memory
283(1)
12.3.4 Superstimuli
283(2)
12.4 Tactile aesthetics: Beyond vision
285(2)
12.5 Touch in the museum
287(3)
12.5.1 How to make the best tactile replica
288(1)
12.5.2 Tactile replicas: The analogy with visual reproduction
289(1)
12.6 The neuroscience of aesthetics: What about touch?
290(3)
12.6.1 Aesthetics and pleasure
292(1)
12.7 Conclusions
293(2)
13 Touch in the bedroom: The role of touch in sexual behavior
295(15)
13.1 Introduction
295(1)
13.2 The concept of erogenous zones: Cultural, psychological, and physiological perspectives
296(6)
13.3 Touch-induced hormone release
302(2)
13.4 On the role of C fibers in sexual pleasure
304(2)
13.5 Touch and the central mechanisms of pleasure
306(2)
13.5.1 Pleasure centers
308(1)
13.6 Conclusions
308(2)
14 Touch at the restaurant: A touch of gastronomy
310(23)
14.1 Introduction
310(2)
14.2 On the feel of a restaurant
312(4)
14.2.1 On the weight of the (wine) menu
313(1)
14.2.2 On the weight of the glassware
313(1)
14.2.3 On the weight of the wine bottle
314(2)
14.3 On the feel of the plateware
316(3)
14.4 On the weight and feel of the cutlery
319(3)
14.5 Mouthfeel and the oral-somatosensory aspects of food and drink
322(5)
14.6 On the social aspects of touch in the restaurant
327(1)
14.7 On the future of touch at the restaurant
327(3)
14.7.1 Toward virtual food?
329(1)
14.8 Conclusions
330(3)
Section E Conclusions
15 Touching the future
333(10)
15.1 What might the future hold for the multisensory perception of touch?
333(10)
References 343(118)
Index 461
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