Bias and sensitivity in the haptic perception of geometry

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 150, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 95-108

  Henriques, Denise Y P ^a   Soechting, John F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Arm; Curvature; Direction; Hand path; Humans; Kinesthesia; Psychophysics; Tactile

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARM; ARTICLE; DEPTH PERCEPTION; GEOMETRY; HAND; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; KINESTHESIA; NORMAL HUMAN; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOPHYSICS; ROBOTICS; TACTILE DISCRIMINATION; TOUCH;

EID: 0038753829     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00221-003-1402-z     Document Type: Article

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