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‘Seeing’ faces through touch: Brain may code facial information in shared representation between vision and haptics

September 4, 2013 by

Our sense of touch can contribute to our ability to perceive faces, according to new research. The findings suggest that facial information may be coded in a shared representation between vision and haptics in the brain.

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