Visual and tactile motion cues enhance the categorisation of novel object shapes.

ABSTRACT: Object categorisation is a fundamental cognitive process, involving the integration of information across the senses. We investigated, using smartphones, whether visual and tactile motion cues could enhance object category learning and generalisation to novel object shapes. Two categories of similar shapes were associated with specific correlated visual and tactile vibration motion cues. After learning object categories, participants were assessed on categorisation of learned and novel objects across four cue conditions: shape-only, shape-visual motion, shape-tactile motion, and shape-visual and tactile motion. We also assessed if accuracy was influenced by blocked versus interleaved cue-conditions at test. In Experiment 1, we found more accurate categorisation and generalisation when all

SUBMITTER: Seveso MA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12924856 | biostudies-literature | 2026 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature