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Haptic perception is a dynamic system of cutaneous, proprioceptive, and motor components

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 August 2007

David Travieso ,
M. Pilar Aivar  and
Antoni Gomila
David Travieso
Affiliation:
School of Psychology, Autonomous University of Madrid, E-28049 Madrid, Spain. david.travieso@uam.eshttp://www.uam.es/david.traviesomariapilar.aivar@uam.eshttp://www.uam.es/personal_pdi/psicologia/maivar/toni.
M. Pilar Aivar
Affiliation:
School of Psychology, Autonomous University of Madrid, E-28049 Madrid, Spain. david.travieso@uam.eshttp://www.uam.es/david.traviesomariapilar.aivar@uam.eshttp://www.uam.es/personal_pdi/psicologia/maivar/toni.
Antoni Gomila
Affiliation:
School of Psychology, University of the Balearic Islands, E-07122 Palma de Mallorca, Spain. gomila@uib.eshttp://www.uib.es/facultat/psicologia/professorat/agomila.html
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Abstract

A general shortcoming of the localist, decompositional, approach to neuroscientific explanation that the target article exemplifies, is that it is incomplete unless supplemented with an account of how the hypothesized subsystems integrate in the normal case. Besides, a number of studies that show that object recognition is proprioception dependent and that cutaneous information affects motor performance make the existence of the proposed subsystems doubtful.

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Open Peer Commentary
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 30 , Issue 2 , April 2007 , pp. 222 - 223
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2007

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