We often estimate, or perceive, the quality of materials, surfaces, and objects, what the
Japanese refer to as 'shitsukan', by means of several of our senses. The majority of the …

Most research on the multimodal perception of material properties has investigated the
perception of material properties of two modalities such as vision–touch, vision–audition …

Interest in the perception of the material of objects has been growing. While material
perception is a critical ability for animals to properly regulate behavioral interactions with …

The present study investigated the effect of handwriting sonification on graphomotor
learning. Thirty-two adults, distributed in two groups, learned four new characters with their …

In this article, we propose a control strategy for synthesized continuous-interaction sounds.
The framework of our research is based on the action–object paradigm that describes the …

What is the function of auditory hemispheric asymmetry? We propose that the identification
of sound sources relies on the asymmetric processing of two complementary and …

Animals use tools for communication relatively rarely compared to tool use for extractive
foraging. We investigated the tool-use behaviour accumulative stone throwing (AST) in wild …

Contact between rigid-body objects produces a diversity of impact and friction sounds.
These sounds can be synthesized with detailed simulations of the motion, vibration and …

Shitsukan is a Japanese word that means ''a sense of quality.''Shitsukan includes visual
qualities such as ''glossiness''and ''translucency''; acoustic qualities such as ''brightness'''' …

Texture, a fundamental object attribute, is perceived through multisensory information
including touch and auditory cues. Coherent perceptions may rely on shared texture …