Improving Human Haptic Performance in Normal and Impaired Human Populations Through Unattended Activation-Based Learning

ACM Transactions on Applied Perception

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 71-88

  Dinse, Hubert R ^a   Kalisch, Tobias ^a   Ragert, Patrick ^a   Pleger, Burkhard ^a   Schwenkreis, Peter ^a   Tegenthoff, Martin ^a  

^a RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

Author keywords

aging; cognition; cortical reorganization; Experimentation; Human Factors; learn ware; Learning; plasticity; therapy

Indexed keywords

EID: 27844508002     PISSN: 15443558     EISSN: 15443965     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/1060581.1060583     Document Type: Article

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