In touch with the future : the sense of touch from cognitive neuroscience to virtual reality
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In touch with the future : the sense of touch from cognitive neuroscience to virtual reality
Oxford University Press, 2014
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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内容説明
Out of all the human senses, touch is the one that is most often unappreciated, and undervalued. Yet, the surface of the human body, the skin, is actually one huge sheet of tactile receptors. It provides us with the means to connect with our surroundings. Despite the important role that vision plays in our everyday lives, it is the skin that constitutes both the oldest, and by far the largest of our sense organs. The skin protects our body from the external world
and, at the same time, informs us about what occurs on its surface.
In Touch With The Future explores the science of touch, bringing together the latest findings from cognitive neuroscience about the processing of tactile information in humans. The book provides a comprehensive overview of scientific knowledge regarding themes such as tactile memory, tactile awareness (consciousness), tactile attention, the role of touch in interpersonal and sexual interactions, and the neurological substrates of touch. It highlights the many ways in which our growing
understanding of the world of touch can, and in some cases already are, being applied in the real world in everything from the development of virtual reality (VR) environments, tablet PCs, mobile phones, and even teledildonics - the ultimate frontier in terms of adult entertainment.
In addition, the book shows how the cognitive neuroscience approach to the study of touch can be applied to help improve the design of many real-world applications/products as well as to many of our everyday experiences, such as those related to the appreciation of food, marketing, packaging design, the development of enhanced sensory substitution systems, art, and man-machine interfaces. Crucially, the authors makes a convincing argument for the view that one cannot really understand touch,
especially not in a real-world context, without placing it in a multisensory context. That is, the senses interact to influence tactile perception in everything - from changing the feel of a surface or product by changing the sound it makes or the fragrance it has.
For students and researchers in the brain sciences, this book presents a valuable and fascinating exploration into one of our least understood senses
目次
- TOUCH IN THE LABORATORY 1: INTRODUCING THE SENSE OF TOUCH
- 1. Introduction
- 2. The fundamentals of touch: The organization of the somatosensory system
- 3. Tactile perceptual organization
- TOUCH IN THE LABORATORY 2: THE HIGHER ORDER FACTORS THAT AFFECT TACTILE PERCEPTION
- 4. The awareness of touch
- 5. A memory for touch
- 6. Tactile attention
- 7. Caressing the skin: The social side of touch
- 8. Outside the boundaries of our bodies: The relationship between touch and the representation of the body in our mind
- TOUCH IN THE REAL WORLD 1: OVERCOMING THE LIMITATIONS IN TACTILE INFORMATION PROCESSING
- 9. Technologies of touch
- 10. Tactile and multisensory warning signals
- TOUCH IN THE REAL WORLD 2: ENHANCING THE AFFECTIVE DESIGN OF TOUCH
- 11. Touch in the marketplace: Selling by means of touch
- 12. Touch in the museum: Sculpture, art, aesthetics, and visual impairment
- 13. Touch in the bedroom: The role of touch in sexual behavior
- 14. Touch in the restaurant: A touch of gastronomy
- CONCLUSIONS
- 15. Touching the future
- References
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