Sensorimotor strategies for recognizing geometrical shapes: a comparative study with different sensory substitution devices.

ABSTRACT: The sensorimotor approach proposes that perception is constituted by the mastery of lawful sensorimotor regularities or sensorimotor contingencies (SMCs), which depend on specific bodily characteristics and on actions possibilities that the environment enables and constrains. Sensory substitution devices (SSDs) provide the user information about the world typically corresponding to one sensory modality through the stimulation of another modality. We investigate how perception emerges in novice adult participants equipped with vision-to-auditory SSDs while solving a simple geometrical shape recognition task. In particular, we examine the distinction between apparatus-related SMCs (those originating mostly in properties of the perceptual system) and object-related SMCs (those mostly connecte

SUBMITTER: Bermejo F 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4460306 | biostudies-literature | 2015

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature