Behavioral and Brain Sciences

Table of Contents - 2007 - Volume 30, Issue 02  

Open Peer Commentary

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

David Traviesoa1, M. Pilar Aivara1 and Antoni Gomilaa2

a1 School of Psychology, Autonomous University of Madrid, E-28049 Madrid, Spain. david.travieso@uam.es http://www.uam.es/david.travieso mariapilar.aivar@uam.es http://www.uam.es/personal_pdi/psicologia/maivar/toni.

a2 School of Psychology, University of the Balearic Islands, E-07122 Palma de Mallorca, Spain. gomila@uib.es http://www.uib.es/facultat/psicologia/professorat/agomila.html

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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