Multisensory processing for perception and action

感知和行动的多感官处理

• 批准号: 355931-2013
• 负责人: Brown, Liana
• 金额: $ 2.4万
• 依托单位: Trent University
• 依托单位国家: 加拿大
• 项目类别: Discovery Grants Program - Individual
• 财政年份: 2013
• 资助国家: 加拿大
• 起止时间: 2013-01-01 至 2014-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/ase-oro/Details-Detailles_eng.asp?id=527960
• 关键词: Multisensory; processing; perception; action

Can we use our hands to improve our vision? The term "looking" typically refers to vision, but looking is best thought of as a hands-on, multisensory event. My experiments are designed to reveal why we like to place our hands on or near the things we are looking at, even when touch seemingly provides no information (e.g. when we touch the page we are reading). So far, my experiments have shown that we can see things better when they are in or near our hands or when they are presented near a tool that we know how to use well. The proposed experiments will study the degree to which this near-hand advantage can be explained by attention or if it can be explained by resources linked to the touch sensory system. The proposed experiments will also study the brain areas that may be responsible for the near-hand advantage. By learning about the ways in which the hands can augment vision, this research will be useful to rehabilitation specialists as they develop alternative and augmentative strategies (both high- and low-tech) for treating people with brain injuries.

我们可以用双手来改善我们的视力吗？“看”这个词通常指的是视觉，但看最好被认为是一个动手的，多感官的事件。我的实验旨在揭示为什么我们喜欢把手放在我们正在看的东西上或附近，即使触摸似乎没有提供任何信息（例如，当我们触摸我们正在阅读的页面时）。到目前为止，我的实验表明，当东西在我们手中或附近时，或者当它们出现在我们知道如何使用的工具附近时，我们可以更好地看到它们。拟议的实验将研究这种近手优势在多大程度上可以用注意力来解释，或者是否可以用与触觉系统相关的资源来解释。拟议中的实验还将研究可能负责近手优势的大脑区域。通过了解手可以增强视力的方式，这项研究将对康复专家有用，因为他们开发了治疗脑损伤患者的替代和增强策略（高科技和低科技）。