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

  • David Travieso (a1), M. Pilar Aivar (a1) and Antoni Gomila (a2)
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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