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The Medium of Haptic Perception: A Tensegrity Hypothesis
2014
Journal of Motor Behavior
For any given animal, the sources of mechanical disturbances inducing tissue deformation define environment from the perspective of the animal's haptic perceptual system. The system's achievements include perceiving the body, attachments to the body, and the surfaces and substances adjacent to the body. Among the perceptual systems, it stands alone in having no defined medium. There is no articulated functional equivalent to air and water, the media that make possible the energy transmissions
doi:10.1080/00222895.2013.798252
pmid:24628057
fatcat:s2ncnq4euna4lnqbkwi5zy3ie4