Examining the relationship between touch and visual perception: pareidolia perception in the social brain

Year 2024, Volume: 17 Issue: 1, 159 - 170, 01.01.2024

Gülsüm Akdeniz , Özgen Deniz Deliktaş , Ayse Ceren Fincan , Gulsen Yilmaz , Tahir Yoldaş , Pınar Özışık

Abstract

Purpose: Human perception is a complex system based on the interaction of different modalities. However, it is unclear how adults’ perception of social touch influences their social dimension of visual perception. The aim of this study is to investigate the relationship between social touch perception and visual perception in the social brain.
Materials and methods: The survey study recruited 802 healthy participants. Thus, a self-report survey that included the Social Touch Questionnaire consisting of three factors and the pareidolia test were used. Pearson’s Correlation and one- way ANOVA was performed for analysis.
Result: We display a statistically significant negative correlation between face reaction time, personal social touch factor, and liking personal social touch factor. An adverse important relationship emerged between pareidolia reaction time, liking of personal social touch, and social touch behavior factors.
Conclusion: According to our results, multimodal perception necessitates the simultaneous activation of multiple heteromodal associations in the social brain. Our findings can be interpreted as an interaction between the Dorsal and Ventral Attention Networks and the Social Brain Network.

Keywords

Social touch perception, visual perception, pareidolia, multimodal perception, social brain

Dokunma ve görsel algı arasındaki ilişkinin incelenmesi: sosyal beyinde pareidolia algısı

Abstract

Amaç: İnsan algısı, farklı modalitelerin etkileşimine dayalı karmaşık bir sistemdir. Ancak yetişkinlerin sosyal dokunma algısının görsel algının sosyal boyutunu nasıl etkilediği belirsizdir. Bu çalışmanın amacı, sosyal beyinde sosyal dokunma algısı ile görsel algı arasındaki ilişkiyi incelemektir.
Gereç ve yöntem: Çalışma 802 sağlıklı katılımcı ile gerçekleştirildi. Üç faktörden oluşan Sosyal Dokunma testini ve Pareidolia testini içeren öz bildirim anketi kullanıldı. Pearson Korelasyon ve tek yönlü ANOVA analizi gerçekleştirildi.
Bulgular: Yüzlere verilen tepki süresi ile kişisel beğenilen sosyal dokunma faktörü ve kişisel sosyal dokunma faktörü arasında istatistiksel olarak anlamlı bir negatif ilişki bulundu. Pareidoliaya verilen tepki süresi ile kişisel sosyal dokunma ve sosyal dokunma davranışı faktörleri arasında anlamlı negatif ilişki bulundu.
Sonuç: Sonuçlarımıza göre, multimodel algı, sosyal beyinde çoklu heteromodal ilişkilendirme alanları ile eş zamanlı olarak aktive olmasını gerektirmektedir. Bulgularımız, Dorsal ve Ventral Dikkat Ağları ile Sosyal Beyin Ağı arasındaki etkileşimi yansıtabilir.

Keywords

Sosyal dokunma algısı, görsel algı, pareidolia, multimodel algı, sosyal beyin

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