This poster showed several important things about haptic learning and functional equivalence. First, it demonstrated that functionally equivalent spatial representations can be built up and updated between vision and touch (equivalence had not previously been studied with touch). It also showed that haptic map learning is subject to similar encoding biases of alignment which have been long known for visual map learning, and finally, the data provide additional evidence for haptic updating (which compared to vision,  has been poorly studied in the literature). The level of functional equivalence observed between vision and touch provides good support for the building up and updating of an amodal spatial image.