Remarkable capacity for perception of the direction of skin pull in man

Brain Research

Volumn 808, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 120-123

  Olausson, Håkan ^a,b   Hamadeh, Imad ^a   Pakdel, Parham ^a   Norrsell, Ulf ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^b SAHLGRENSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Directional sensibility; Human; Skin

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPRIOCEPTION; SKIN SENSATION; STRETCH RECEPTOR; TACTILE DISCRIMINATION;

ADULT; ANESTHESIA, LOCAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RECEPTORS, SENSORY; SENSORY THRESHOLDS; SKIN; TOUCH;

EID: 0032511821     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-8993(98)00838-5     Document Type: Article

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