Temporal gap detection in tactile channels

Somatosensory and Motor Research

Volumn 20, Issue 3-4, 2003, Pages 239-247

  Gescheider, George A ^a,b   Bolanowski, Stanley J ^b,c   Chatterton, Sarah K ^a  

^a HAMILTON COLLEGE   (United States)

^b Syracuse Institute for Sensory Research   (United States)

^c SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Mechanoreception; Somatosensation; Tactile sensitivity; Temporal acuity; Temporal gap detection; Temporal summation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; FEMALE; HAND; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; MECHANORECEPTOR; NOISE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN TEMPERATURE; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; SOMATOSENSORY SYSTEM; TACTILE STIMULATION; TEMPORAL SUMMATION;

ADULT; ARTIFACTS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MECHANOTRANSDUCTION, CELLULAR; PACINIAN CORPUSCLES; REACTION TIME; SENSORY THRESHOLDS; TOUCH; VIBRATION;

EID: 0346880526     PISSN: 08990220     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/08990220310001622960     Document Type: Article

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