Objective measurement of tactile mislocalization

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 52, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 728-735

  Braun, Christoph ^a   Ladda, Jennifer ^a   Burkhardt, Michaela ^a   Wiech, Katja ^a,b   Preissl, Hubert ^a,c   Roberts, Larry E ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FOR MEDICAL SCIENCES   (United States)

^d MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Instrumentation; Mislocalization; Perception; Psychophysics; Sensory threshold; Somatosensory system

Indexed keywords

ERROR ANALYSIS; SENSORS;

SENSORY THRESHOLD; SOMATOTOPIC PRINCIPLE; TACTILE MISLOCALIZATION; TACTILE STIMULI;

SKIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; DEVICE; ERROR; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INSTRUMENTATION; MALE; METHODOLOGY; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTIVE THRESHOLD; PSYCHOPHYSICS; SKIN STIMULATION; SOMATOSENSORY STIMULATION; TACTILE DISCRIMINATION; TACTILE STIMULATION; VALIDATION PROCESS;

EID: 16444382698     PISSN: 00189294     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TBME.2005.845147     Document Type: Article

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