Title: Proactive experiences of vibrotactile stimuli enhance learners' task-specific confidence in cooking skills Authors: Sana Inoue, Kakagu Komazaki, Yuji Wada and Junji Watanabe Journal: Frontiers in Virtual Reality, section Haptics Abstract: In skill acquisition, learners' motivation plays an important role. Based on embodied cognition and haptic learning, we hypothesized that vibro-acoustic stimuli could serve as valuable feedback to enhance motivation. In this study, three experiments explored whether such stimuli strengthen learners' task-specific confidence in their cooking abilities. Experiment 1 examined the discriminability of vibro-acoustic stimuli as feedback. Sounds and vibrations were recorded when a professional chef and an amateur cut two types of food, and were presented via a haptic device to participants, who evaluated the sensations. Participants successfully distinguished between the two performers solely through the vibro-acoustic stimuli. Experimen...