A Reversed Lag in the Recognition and Production of Tactual Drawings: Theoretical Implications for Haptic Coding

My thesis is that output factors are crucial in coding shape by touch. What I am proposing is that haptic representation is based on action plans. It is, of course, well known that movement is important in tactual perception. The very term “haptics” for active touch was coined to stress that fact. But it will be argued later that it is active movement that leads to the representation and tactual recognition of shape, rather than the other way about.