Memory of Texture

(Project leader: Dr. Michael Batashvili)

A great deal of research has focused on memory for visual and auditory stimuli, but far fewer studies have explored the sense of touch. Within this limited research area, memory for textures has been previously unexplored. This novel series of studies investigates our memory for textures, beginning with identifying our memory span, and continuing towards multimodal associative memory incorporating tactile and other stimuli. We hope to proceed to explore the neurophysiological correlates and brain substrates of tactile texture memory.