Response of monkey glabrous skin mechanoreceptors to random noise sequences: II. Dynamic stimulus state analysis

Somatosensory and Motor Research

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 11-28

  Looft, F J ^a  

^a Worcester Polytechnic Institute   (United States)

Author keywords

Glabrous skin; Mechanoreceptors; Noise stimulus; Vibrotactile

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GLABROUS SKIN; HISTOGRAM; MECHANORECEPTOR; MONKEY; NONHUMAN; PACINI CORPUSCLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORY NERVE; SKIN STIMULATION; STIMULUS; WAVEFORM;

EID: 0029978623     PISSN: 08990220     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/08990229609028908     Document Type: Article

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