Humans flexibly use visual priors to optimize their haptic exploratory behavior.
Journal
Scientific reports
ISSN: 2045-2322
Titre abrégé: Sci Rep
Pays: England
ID NLM: 101563288
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
28 Jun 2024
28 Jun 2024
Historique:
received:
12
09
2023
accepted:
25
06
2024
medline:
29
6
2024
pubmed:
29
6
2024
entrez:
28
6
2024
Statut:
epublish
Résumé
Humans can use prior information to optimize their haptic exploratory behavior. Here, we investigated the usage of visual priors, which mechanisms enable their usage, and how the usage is affected by information quality. Participants explored different grating textures and discriminated their spatial frequency. Visual priors on texture orientation were given each trial, with qualities randomly varying from high to no informational value. Adjustments of initial exploratory movement direction orthogonal to the textures' orientation served as an indicator of prior usage. Participants indeed used visual priors; the more so the higher the priors' quality (Experiment 1). Higher task demands did not increase the direct usage of visual priors (Experiment 2), but possibly fostered the establishment of adjustment behavior. In Experiment 3, we decreased the proportion of high-quality priors presented during the session, hereby reducing the contingency between high-quality priors and haptic information. In consequence, even priors of high quality ceased to evoke movement adjustments. We conclude that the establishment of adjustment behavior results from a rather implicit contingency learning. Overall, it became evident that humans can autonomously learn to use rather abstract visual priors to optimize haptic exploration, with the learning process and direct usage substantially depending on the priors' quality.
Identifiants
pubmed: 38942980
doi: 10.1038/s41598-024-65958-6
pii: 10.1038/s41598-024-65958-6
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Langues
eng
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Organisme : Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
ID : 222641018 - SFB/TRR 135, A5
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© 2024. The Author(s).
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