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EuroHaptics 2014: Haptics: Neuroscience, Devices, Modeling, and Applications pp 93–100Cite as

Amplitude and Duration Interdependence in the Perceived Intensity of Complex Tactile Signals

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The dependency of the perceived intensity of a short stimulus on its duration is well established in vision and audition. No such phenomenon in terms of the amplitude has been reported for the tactile modality. In this study naive observers were presented with pink noise vibrations enveloped in a Gabor wavelet. Characteristic durations ranging between 0.1 and 0.7 s and intensities ranging from 0.3 and 3.0 \(10^{-3}\) m/s\(^2\) were presented to the fingertip. Using a two alternative forced choice staircase procedure, the points of subjective equivalence were estimated for the 0.4 s long reference stimulus. Similarly to vision and audition, lower intensities were consistently reported for shorter stimuli. The observed relationship could be interpreted as reflecting a mechanism of haptic constancy with respect to exploration speed.

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This study was funded by the FP7 Marie Curie Initial Training Network PROTOTOUCH, grant agreement No. 317100. It was also supported by the European Research Council (FP7) ERC Advanced Grant (patch) to V.H. (No. 247300). The authors would like to thank Stephen Sinclair for helpful discussions, as well as Amir Berrezag and Ramakanth Singal for excellent technical assistance.

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    Séréna Bochereau, Alexander Terekhov & Vincent Hayward

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Bochereau, S., Terekhov, A., Hayward, V. (2014). Amplitude and Duration Interdependence in the Perceived Intensity of Complex Tactile Signals. In: Auvray, M., Duriez, C. (eds) Haptics: Neuroscience, Devices, Modeling, and Applications. EuroHaptics 2014. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 8618. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-44193-0_13

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