Methodological approaches for the study of auditory-tactile interactions in conditions of active touch
(2025)
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- Touch is a complex and dynamic process, and tactile sensations are often accompanied by sounds generated by our interactions with objects and surfaces. The study of active, dynamic touch comes with several methodological challenges, often due to the experimenter's lack of control over the participants' free exploratory movements. The aim of this thesis was to develop neuroscientific approaches to set the basis for a systematic study of audio-tactile integration under conditions of active, dynamic touch. First, we provided evidence for audio-tactile integration during localization of tactile stimuli in conditions of active touch. Then, we validated two EEG techniques to investigate the processing of changes in textures and of contact with tactile edges: EEG frequency-tagging recording of somatosensory-evoked potentials, respectively.
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Esposito, G. (2025). Methodological approaches for the study of auditory-tactile interactions in conditions of active touch.