The Visual Perception of Material Properties Affects Motor Planning in Prehension: An Analysis of Temporal and Spatial Components of Lifting Cups

Ingvarsdottir, Kristin; Balkenius, Christian

doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2020.00215

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“…Softness, a material property relying on haptic information, is physically independent from the visual property of glossiness. However, they can be perceptually related since a perceptual association can be learned when intentionally induced (Ernst, 2007;Wismeijer, Gegenfurtner, & Drewing, 2012), or from prior experience, since glossy materials tend to be hard (Ingvarsdottir & Balkenius, 2020). In the full figure condition, there was indeed a high and significant negative correlation between shininess and softness, likely due to the identification of the objects and of the materials they were made of.…”

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Soft like velvet and shiny like satin: Perceptual material signatures of fabrics depicted in 17^th century paintings

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Dutch 17 th century painters were masters in depicting materials and their properties in a convincing way. Here, we studied the perception of the material signatures and key image features of different depicted fabrics, like satin and velvet. We also tested whether the perception of fabrics depicted in paintings related to local or global cues, by cropping the stimuli. In Experiment 1, roughness, warmth, softness, heaviness, hairiness, and shininess were rated for the stimuli shown either full figure or cropped. In the full figure, all attributes except shininess were rated higher for velvet, whereas shininess was rated higher for satin. This distinction was less clear in the cropped condition, and some properties were perceived significantly different between the two conditions. In Experiment 2 we tested whether this difference was due to the choice of the cropped area. On the basis of the results of Experiment 1, shininess and softness were rated for multiple crops from each fabric. Most crops from the same fabric differed significantly in shininess, but not in softness perception. Perceived shininess correlated positively with the mean luminance of the crops and the highlights' coverage. Experiment 1 showed that painted velvet and satin triggered distinct perceptions, indicative of robust material signatures of the two fabrics. The results of Experiment 2 suggest that the presence of local image cues affects the perception of optical properties like shininess, but not mechanical properties such as softness.

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“…How we interact with an object can also be influenced by whether or not it has been given a shiny/glossy surface appearance [ 16 , 63 ]. At the same time, physically touching surfaces/objects that are slippery has also been shown to enhance perceived gloss [ 64 , 65 ].…”

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On the Questionable Appeal of Glossy/Shiny Food Packaging

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2021

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Those stimuli that have a shiny/glossy visual appearance are typically rated as both attractive and attention capturing. Indeed, for millennia, shiny precious metals and glossy lacquerware have been used to enhance the presentation, and thus the perception, of food and drink. As such, one might have expected that adding a shiny/glossy appearance/finish to the outer packaging of food and beverage products would also be desirable. However, the latest research appears to show that many consumers have internalised an association between glossy packaging and greasy (or unhealthy) food products, while matte packaging tends to be associated with those foods that are more natural instead. Furthermore, it turns out that many consumers do not necessarily appreciate the attempt to capture their attention that glossy packaging so often affords. At the same time, it is important to recognise that somewhat different associations may apply in the case of inner versus outer food and beverage packaging. Shiny metallic (inner) packaging may well prime (rightly or wrongly) concerns about sustainability amongst consumers. Given the research that has been published in recent years, food and beverage manufacturers/marketers should think very carefully about whether or not to introduce such shiny/glossy finishes to their packaging.

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“…Fortunately, motion capture technology presents an avenue to generate continuous, objective measures of infants’ motor responses in order to quantify infants’ problem-solving approaches along an imitation-exploration continuum. Indeed, there is a rich history of using motion capture technology in developmental research to assess early motor, perceptual, and cognitive development ( Thelen et al, 1996 ; Adolph et al, 2000 ; Berger and Adolph, 2003 ; Claxton et al, 2003 ; McCarty and Keen, 2005 ; Gill et al, 2009 ; Gottwald and Gredebäck, 2015 ; Jung et al, 2015 ; Fragaszy et al, 2016 ; Gottwald et al, 2017 , 2019 ; Ingvarsdóttir and Balkenius, 2020 ). Advancements in artificial intelligence have expanded access to motion capture by creating free, online programs for post hoc analysis such as frame difference (e.g., Paxton and Dale, 2013 ) and computer vision methods (e.g., Ossmy et al, 2020 ; Cao et al, 2021 ).…”

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A New Look at Infant Problem-Solving: Using DeepLabCut to Investigate Exploratory Problem-Solving Approaches

2021

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When confronted with novel problems, problem-solvers must decide whether to copy a modeled solution or to explore their own unique solutions. While past work has established that infants can learn to solve problems both through their own exploration and through imitation, little work has explored the factors that influence which of these approaches infants select to solve a given problem. Moreover, past work has treated imitation and exploration as qualitatively distinct, although these two possibilities may exist along a continuum. Here, we apply a program novel to developmental psychology (DeepLabCut) to archival data (Lucca et al., 2020) to investigate the influence of the effort and success of an adult’s modeled solution, and infants’ firsthand experience with failure, on infants’ imitative versus exploratory problem-solving approaches. Our results reveal that tendencies toward exploration are relatively immune to the information from the adult model, but that exploration generally increased in response to firsthand experience with failure. In addition, we found that increases in maximum force and decreases in trying time were associated with greater exploration, and that exploration subsequently predicted problem-solving success on a new iteration of the task. Thus, our results demonstrate that infants increase exploration in response to failure and that exploration may operate in a larger motivational framework with force, trying time, and expectations of task success.

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The Visual Perception of Material Properties Affects Motor Planning in Prehension: An Analysis of Temporal and Spatial Components of Lifting Cups

Cited by 12 publications

References 55 publications

Soft like velvet and shiny like satin: Perceptual material signatures of fabrics depicted in 17^th century paintings

Soft like velvet and shiny like satin: Perceptual material signatures of fabrics depicted in 17^th century paintings

On the Questionable Appeal of Glossy/Shiny Food Packaging

A New Look at Infant Problem-Solving: Using DeepLabCut to Investigate Exploratory Problem-Solving Approaches

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The Visual Perception of Material Properties Affects Motor Planning in Prehension: An Analysis of Temporal and Spatial Components of Lifting Cups

Cited by 12 publications

References 55 publications

Soft like velvet and shiny like satin: Perceptual material signatures of fabrics depicted in 17th century paintings

Soft like velvet and shiny like satin: Perceptual material signatures of fabrics depicted in 17th century paintings

On the Questionable Appeal of Glossy/Shiny Food Packaging

A New Look at Infant Problem-Solving: Using DeepLabCut to Investigate Exploratory Problem-Solving Approaches

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Soft like velvet and shiny like satin: Perceptual material signatures of fabrics depicted in 17^th century paintings

Soft like velvet and shiny like satin: Perceptual material signatures of fabrics depicted in 17^th century paintings