Does the way of touching influence visual illusion? In case of Hering and Wundt figures
Poster

Keiko Omori
Department of Psychology, Nihon University

Yuji Wada
Department of Psychology, Nihon University

Kaoru Noguchi
Department of Psychology, Nihon University

     Abstract ID Number: 104
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Abstract
We investigated the relationship between touching and seeing in illusion using Hering and Wundt figures. The conditions of touching a wooden board were concave, convex, and parallel. As a control, no touching condition was prepared. Participants were asked to observe illusion figures and report what they saw. Visual illusion was influenced by the presence of haptic information, and was changed with changes in haptic information in the sense that visual responses were biased to the kind of haptic information, which coincided or not with visual information. This touch-oriented response tendency was most marked with vision-touch coincidence.