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    • Cognitive Psychology
    • Neuroscience
    • Sensory Perception

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    • Face recognition is primarily studied visually.
    • The role of touch (haptics) in face recognition and cross-modal transfer is less understood.
    • Understanding cross-modal transfer aids in comprehending sensory integration.

    Purpose of the Study:

    • To investigate cross-modal transfer between visual and haptic face recognition.
    • To determine the effectiveness of haptic face recognition.
    • To explore asymmetries in cross-modal transfer based on initial learning modality.

    Main Methods:

    • Four psychophysical experiments were conducted.
    • Participants learned to recognize faces using either vision or touch first.
    • Cross-modal transfer was tested by assessing recognition performance in the untrained modality.

    Main Results:

    • High levels of haptic face recognition performance were observed.
    • Significant cross-modal transfer occurred from vision to touch and vice versa.
    • Recognition transfer showed asymmetry, being more effective when visual learning preceded haptic learning.

    Conclusions:

    • The human brain effectively processes and transfers face information between visual and haptic sensory systems.
    • Haptic face recognition is a robust capability.
    • The order of sensory learning influences the efficiency of cross-modal face recognition transfer, suggesting distinct neural pathways or processing strategies.