A recent letter to the journal Nature claimed integration of auditory and tactile information in speech perception. Although multisensory integration of auditory and visible speech has been repeatedly documented, neither perception nor integration was sufficiently formalized, operationalized, and tested to support this claim about auditory and tactile information. In a recent letter to the jour...

Slide fasteners are one of the textile end-uses that have permeated daily life. The objective is to elucidate ways improve quality and value slide fasteners. In this report, from viewpoint tactile perception on tensile load transmitted user’s fingers through a slider in sliding fastener, sensory affective impressions (hereinafter referred as slide-feeling) quantitative evaluation indexes slide-...