Relative roles of spatial and intensive cues in the discrimination of spatial tactile stimuli

Perception and Psychophysics

Volumn 64, Issue 7, 2002, Pages 1095-1107

  Gibson, Gregory O ^a   Craig, James C ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; DEPTH PERCEPTION; HUMAN; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PERCEPTIVE THRESHOLD; PHYSIOLOGY; RANDOMIZATION; SENSORY NERVE CELL; TOUCH;

CUES; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); HUMANS; NEURONS, AFFERENT; RANDOM ALLOCATION; SENSORY THRESHOLDS; SPACE PERCEPTION; TOUCH;

EID: 0036777192     PISSN: 00315117     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BF03194759     Document Type: Article

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