A psychologist at the University of London has found that humans have a surprisingly precise degree of tactile localization beneath their fingernails. In his study, published in the Proceedings of the ...

A study by Judith Mergen and colleagues shows that women with Anorexia Nervosa and healthy controls are pretty much similar in their ability to accurately localize a tactile stimulus on the skin: body ...

Estimating the location of contact is a primary function of artificial tactile sensing apparatuses that perceive the environment through touch. Existing contact localization methods use flat geometry ...

Body image disturbance is a key symptom of Anorexia Nervosa (AN). Previous studies found that women with AN overestimate their body size in comparison with healthy controls (HC), at least for unimodal ...

Robots can locate objects with cameras, but that is not always enough when the target is tiny, irregular, or partly hidden. This study presents a complementary perception strategy that combines visual ...