Temporal onset-order discrimination through the tactual sense: Effects of frequency and site of stimulation

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 120, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 375-385

  Yuan, Hanfeng ^a   Reed, Charlotte M ^a   Durlach, Nathaniel I ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC SIGNAL PROCESSING; NATURAL FREQUENCIES;

CONTINUOUS TONAL SIGNALS; FREQUENCY SEPARATION; REDUNDANT CODING; SINUSOIDAL SIGNALS; TACTUAL SENSORY SYSTEM; TEMPORAL RESOLUTION; THRESHOLDS;

SENSORY PERCEPTION;

ADULT; AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; DECISION MAKING; DEVICE; FEMALE; FINGER; FREQUENCY DISCRIMINATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MEASUREMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOMETRY; SIGNAL PROCESSING; TACTILE DISCRIMINATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEMPORAL SUMMATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; REACTION TIME; SENSORY THRESHOLDS; TIME FACTORS; TOUCH;

EID: 33745742871     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2204452     Document Type: Article

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