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    • Neuroscience
    • Sensory Perception

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    • Material perception research increasingly integrates visual and haptic sensory information.
    • Understanding the comparative roles of vision and touch in material perception remains a key challenge.

    Purpose of the Study:

    • To investigate the correspondence between visual and haptic representations of materials.
    • To compare categorization and rating performance across visual and haptic modalities.

    Main Methods:

    • Participants categorized and rated 84 materials under visual-only and haptic-only (blindfolded) conditions.
    • Principal Component Analysis (PCA) was used to analyze perceptual organization.

    Main Results:

    • Categorization accuracy was higher in the visual condition compared to the haptic condition.
    • Material property ratings showed high correlation between visual and haptic modalities.
    • PCA revealed similar perceptual organization across both senses, with hardness and roughness dominating.

    Conclusions:

    • The haptic sense is crucial for material perception, but may lack the fine-grained detail for complete recognition alone.
    • Visual and haptic inputs provide complementary information for comprehensive material perception.