Feeling textures through a probe: Effects of probe and surface geometry and exploratory factors

Perception and Psychophysics

Volumn 65, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 613-631

  Klatzky, Roberta L ^a   Lederman, Susan J ^b   Hamilton, Cheryl ^b   Grindley, Molly ^b   Swendsen, Robert H ^a  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; RANDOMIZATION; TOUCH; VIBRATION;

FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; RANDOM ALLOCATION; TOUCH; VIBRATION;

EID: 0038794652     PISSN: 00315117     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BF03194587     Document Type: Article

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