Confidence is higher in touch than in vision in cases of perceptual ambiguity

Scientific Reports

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2018, Pages

  Fairhurst, Merle T ^a,b   Travers, Eoin ^a,c   Hayward, Vincent ^a,d   Deroy, Ophelia ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; FEMALE; HUMAN; ILLUSION; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; TOUCH; VISION; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; ILLUSIONS; MALE; TOUCH; VISION, OCULAR; VISUAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 85055608129     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-018-34052-z     Document Type: Article

References (50)

1. Samuels, J. et al. An investigation of doubt in obsessive-compulsive disorder. Compr. Psychiatry 75, 117–124 (2017)
2. Holzer, J. C. et al. Obsessive–Compulsive Disorder with and without a Chronic Tic Disorder. Br. J. Psychiatry 164, 469–473 (1994)
3. Deroy, O. & Fairhurst, M. T. In Space and the Senses (eds Cheng, T., Deory, O. & Spence, C.) (Routledge), in press
4. Gentaz, E. & Hatwell, Y. Geometrical haptic illusions: The role of exploration in the Müller-Lyer, vertical-horizontal, and Delboeuf illusions. Psychon. Bull. Rev. 11, 31–40 (2004)
5. Heller, M. A., Brackett, D. D., Wilson, K., Yoneyama, K. & Boyer, A. Visual experience and the haptic horizontal-vertical illusion. Br. J. Vis. Impair. 20, 105–109 (2002)
6. Casla, M., Blanco, F. & Travieso, D. Haptic perception of geometric illusions by persons who are totally congenitally blind. J. Vis. Impair. Blind. 93, 583–588 (1999)
7. Fitzpatrick, P., Carello, C., Schmidt, R. C. & Corey, D. Haptic and Visual Perception of an Affordance for Upright Posture. Ecol. Psychol. 6, 265–287 (1994)
8. Descartes, R. The World and other writings. (Cambridge University Press, 1633)
9. Teske, R. J. ‘Philosophical Works, Including the Works on Vision,’ by George Berkeley, introduction and notes by M. R. Ayers. Mod. Schoolman 54, 204–205 (1977)
10. de Condillac, E. Philosophical Writings of Etienne Bonnot, Abbé de Condillac. (Lawrence Erlbaum, 1982)
11. Armstrong, D. In Studies in philosophical psychology (Routledge & Paul Humanities Press, 1962)
12. Katz, D. The World of Touch. (Johan~Ambrosius~Barth/Routledge 2016)
13. Heider, F. On perception, event structure, and the psychological environment. Psychol. Issues 1, 1–123 (1959)
14. Russell, B. The relation of sense-data to physics. Scientia 16, 1–27 (1914)
15. Müller, H. The real-exposure effect revisited–How purchase rates vary under pictorial vs. real item presentations when consumers are allowed to use their tactile sense. Int. J. Res. Mark. 30, 304–307 (2013)
16. Peck, J. & Childers, T. L. If I touch it I have to have it: Individual and environmental influences on impulse purchasing. J. Bus. Res. 59, 765–769 (2006)
17. Wurman, R. S. Information anxiety. (Doubleday, 1989)
18. Pleger Bebko, C. Service intangibility and its impact on consumer expectations of service quality. J. Serv. Mark. 14, 9–26 (2000)
19. Fleming, S. M., Dolan, R. J. & Frith, C. D. Metacognition: computation, biology and function. Philos. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. B. Biol. Sci. 367, 1280–1286 (2012)
20. Mamassian, P. Visual Confidence. Annu. Rev. Vis. Sci. 2, 459–481 (2016)
21. Pouget, A., Drugowitsch, J. & Kepecs, A. Confidence and certainty: distinct probabilistic quantities for different goals. Nat. Neurosci. 19, 366 (2016)
22. Ais, J., Zylberberg, A., Barttfeld, P. & Sigman, M. Individual consistency in the accuracy and distribution of confidence judgments. Cognition 146, 377–386 (2016)
23. de Gardelle, V. & Mamassian, P. Does Confidence Use a Common Currency Across Two Visual Tasks? Psychol. Sci. 25, 1286–1288 (2014)
24. de Gardelle, V., Le Corre, F. & Mamassian, P. Confidence as a common currency between vision and audition. PLoS One 11, (2016)
25. Deroy, O., Spence, C. & Noppeney, U. Metacognition in multisensory perception. Trends Cogn. Sci. 20, 736–747 (2016)
26. Hayward, V. A brief taxonomy of tactile illusions and demonstrations that can be done in a hardware store. Brain Res. Bull. 75, 742–752 (2008)
27. Mancini, F., Bricolo, E. & Vallar, G. Multisensory integration in the Müller-Lyer illusion: From vision to haptics. Q. J. Exp. Psychol. 63, 818–830 (2010)
28. Révész, G. System der optischen und haptischen {R}aumtäuschungen. Zeitschrift für Physiol. 131, 296–375 (1934)
29. Suzuki, K. & Arashida, R. Geometrical haptic illusions re- visited: Haptic illusions compared with visual illusions. Percept. Psychophys. 52, 329–335 (1992)
30. Mamassian, P. & de Montalembert, M. A simple model of the vertical-horizontal illusion. Vision Res. 50, 956–962 (2010)
31. Hangya, B., Sanders, J. I. & Kepecs, A. A Mathematical Framework for Statistical Decision Confidence. Neural Comput. 28, 1840–1858 (2016)
32. Drugowitsch, J. Becoming Confident in the Statistical Nature of Human Confidence Judgments. Neuron 90, 425–427 (2016)
33. Massoni, S., Gajdos, T. & Vergnaud, J. C. Confidence measurement in the light of signal detection theory. Front. Psychol. 5, 1455 (2014)
34. Dienes, Z. & Seth, A. Gambling on the unconscious: a comparison of wagering and confidence ratings as measures of awareness in an artificial grammar task. Conscious. Cogn. 19, 674–681 (2010)
35. Lak, A. et al. Orbitofrontal cortex is required for optimal waiting based on decision confidence. Neuron 84, 190–201 (2014)
36. Fleming, S. M. & Lau, H. C. How to measure metacognition. Front. Hum. Neurosci. 8, 443 (2014)
37. Bahrami, B. et al. Optimally interacting minds. Science 329, 1081–1085 (2010)
38. Bang, D. et al. Confidence matching in group decision-making. Nat. Hum. Behav. 1, 117 (2017)
39. Rollman, G. B. Detection of tactile pulses. Percept. Psychophys. 16, 291–294 (1974)
40. Whitmarsh, S., Oostenveld, R., Almeida, R. & Lundqvist, D. Metacognition of attention during tactile discrimination. Neuroimage 147, 121–129 (2017)
41. Baumgarten, T. J., Schnitzler, A. & Lange, J. Prestimulus alpha power influences tactile temporal perceptual discrimination and confidence in decisions. Cereb. Cortex 26, 891–903 (2014)
42. Peirce, C. S. & Jastrow, J. On small differences in sensation. (1884)
43. van den Berg, R. et al. A common mechanism underlies changes of mind about decisions and confidence. Elife 5, (2016)
44. Kiani, R., Corthell, L. & Shadlen, M. N. Choice Certainty Is Informed by Both Evidence and Decision Time. Neuron 84, 1329–1342 (2014)
45. Palser, E. R., Fotopoulou, A. & Kilner, J. M. Altering movement parameters disrupts metacognitive accuracy. Conscious. Cogn. 57, 33–40 (2018)
46. Rock, I. & Victor, J. Vision and touch: An experimentally created conflict between the two senses. Science (80-.). 143, 594–596 (1964)
47. Ernst, M. O. & Banks, M. S. Humans integrate visual and haptic information in a statistically optimal fashion. Nature 415, 429–433 (2002)
48. Esquirol, E. Article XIII. Des Maladies Mentales, considérées sous les rapports Medical, Hygiénique et Médico-Legal. Am. J. Med. Sci. 21, 109–130 (1838)
49. Team, R. D. C. R: A language and environment for statistical computing (2008)
50. Salvatier J., Wiecki T. V. & Fonnesbeck C. Probabilistic programming in Python using PyMC3. PeerJ Computer Science 2, e55, 10.7717/peerj-cs.55 (2016)