Role of gravitational cues in the haptic perception of orientation

Perception and Psychophysics

Volumn 58, Issue 8, 1996, Pages 1278-1292

  Gentaz, Edouard ^a   Hatwell, Yvette ^a  

^a UNIV GRENOBLE ALPES   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; GRAVITY; HUMAN; KINESTHESIA; MALE; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PERCEPTION; PROPRIOCEPTION; PSYCHOPHYSICS; SENSORY DEPRIVATION; TOUCH;

ADULT; CUES; FEMALE; GRAVITATION; HUMANS; KINESTHESIS; MALE; ORIENTATION; PROPRIOCEPTION; PSYCHOPHYSICS; SENSORY DEPRIVATION; STEREOGNOSIS; TOUCH; WEIGHT PERCEPTION;

EID: 0030277540     PISSN: 00315117     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BF03207559     Document Type: Article

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