How do humans visually discriminate materials?

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Researchers from the Cognitive Neurotechnology Unit, Vision and Action Laboratory, and Visual Perception and Cognition Laboratory in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Toyohashi University of Technology have conducted a psychophysical study using virtual reality (VR) to investigate how humans flexibly use exploratory behaviors, such as changing their viewpoint by moving their head and manipulating objects with their hands, when discriminating the material properties of objects.