Mechanisms of fine-surface-texture discrimination in human tactile sensation

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 105, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 2485-2492

  Miyaoka, Tetsu ^a,b   Mano, Tadaaki ^b   Ohka, Masahiro ^a  

^a SHIZUOKA INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; HEIGHT; HUMAN; MALE; MECHANORECEPTOR; PARTICLE SIZE; PERCEPTIVE THRESHOLD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOMETRY; TACTILE DISCRIMINATION; TACTILE STIMULATION; TEMPORAL SUMMATION; TOUCH;

ADULT; DIFFERENTIAL THRESHOLD; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MECHANORECEPTORS; NEURONS; PSYCHOPHYSICS; TOUCH;

EID: 0033044246     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.426852     Document Type: Article

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