BACKGROUND Following the inclusion of sensory abnormalities in the diagnostic criteria for autism, evidence has emerged showing that tactile abnormalities in young children with autism are severe, universally present, and directly related to delay of early self-regulation milestones required for social development. Parent touch is the most effective means of stimulating early self-regulation, y...

Perceptual completion is a fundamental perceptual function serving to maintain robust perception against noise. For example, we can perceive vivid experience of motion even for the discrete inputs across time and space (apparent motion: AM). In vision, stimuli irrelevant AM are suppressed smooth along trajectory where no physical applied. We investigated whether such masking induced by dynamic ...

There is concurrent evidence that visual reach targets are represented with respect to gaze. For tactile reach targets, we previously showed that an effector movement leads to a shift from a gaze-independent to a gaze-dependent reference frame. Here we aimed to unravel the influence of effector movement (gaze shift) on the reference frame of tactile stimuli using a spatial localization task (ye...

The aim of the present study was to determine the effect of superficial tactile- kinesthetic stimulation method on weight gain of low birth weight infants This is a quasi experimental, type of clinical trial study which was conducted on 54 low birth weight infants in Alzahra, Shahid Beheshti and Shariati hospitals was conducted by convenient sampling method. They were assigned to two groups of ...

Purpose- Along with the changes in consumers’ expectations, marketers have started to trigger senses their marketing activities after realizing effects of on consumer decisions. Sensory become a key tool for retailers keep and gain consumers. Retailers can create store environments where customers feel comfortable through use sensory cues. In this study, influence cues revisit intention is anal...

The phenomenon of change blindness (the surprising inability of people to correctly perceive changes between consecutively presented displays), primarily reported in vision, has recently been shown to occur for positional changes presented in tactile displays as well. Here, we studied people's ability to detect changes in the number of tactile stimuli in successively presented displays composed...

A major goal in perceptual neuroscience is to understand how signals from different sensory modalities are combined to produce stable and coherent representations. We previously investigated interactions between audition and touch, motivated by the fact that both modalities are sensitive to environmental oscillations. In our earlier study, we characterized the effect of auditory distractors on ...