人手指柔性触觉感知的记忆特性-生理学报.pdf

生理学报 Acta Physiologica Sinica, June 25, 2007, 59 (3): 387-392 387 实验技术 人手指柔性触觉感知的记忆特性 刘佳，宋爱国* 东南大学仪器科学与工程学院，南京 210096 摘 要：触觉再现技术是当前虚拟现实和远程操作机器人领域的前沿，而柔性触觉则是其重要的研究内容。触觉再现接 口的设计需要充分研究人手的触觉感知特性。本文在柔性触觉装置上研究了人手指柔性触觉记忆特性。先通过回忆性实验 确定人手指的柔性触觉记忆容量，在记忆容量范围内又进行了再认性实验，对人手指的柔性触觉记忆反应时间进行分析。 本实验方法简单有效，得出的结论不仅可以用来改进触觉再现装置的设计，而且为触觉再现技术的研究提供了生理学依据。 关键词：柔性触觉感知；触觉记忆容量；再认性实验；反应时间 中图分类号：T P 2 4 ；B 8 4 2 Remembrance characteristic of softness haptic perception in human fingertips LIU Jia, SONG Ai-Guo* Department of Instrument Science and Technology, Southeast University, Nanjing 210096, China Abstract: Many applications in virtual reality and telerobot call for the implementation of displaying the human softness haptics on the object being touched. Although there are lots of literatures on discrimination threshold for displacement, force magnitude, shape and viscosity, there is still a lack of research on remembrance of softness haptic perception in human fingertips. Such research is needed in designing haptic rendering and display system. In this paper, a novel softness haptic display device based on deformable length of elastic element control was adopted as a test device to study the human fingertip’s ability of remembrance of softness haptic perception. According to the recall experiment and recognition experiment, the softness haptic memory span and reaction time were discussed. From the experimental results, some important conclusions have been obtained: (1) human softness haptic memory span is 3 to 4 items, which is smaller than visual memory span and auditory memory span; (2) it is more difficult for people to remember hard objects than soft objects. Key words: softness haptic perception; haptic memory span; recognition test; reaction time 记忆是人脑对经历过的事物的反映。根据记忆 而揭示信息加工的规律有重要作用，而且对人工智 内容保持时间的长短，可以分为感觉记忆、短时记 能的研究有直接意义。在短时记忆领域中，进行信 忆与长时记忆三种类型。按照信息加工的理论，这 息提取研究的开先河者是心理学家Sternberg[1] ，他 三种记忆的关系是：外界刺激引起感觉，其痕