Factors influencing the radial-tangential illusion in haptic perception

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 178, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 216-227

  McFarland, James ^a   Soechting, John F ^b  

^a POMONA COLLEGE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Haptic perception; Inertial anisotropy; Linear extent; Serial order

Indexed keywords

ARM MOVEMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FORCED CHOICE METHOD; HAND GRIP; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ROBOTICS; SPATIAL ORIENTATION; TOUCH; WORKING MEMORY;

ATTENTION; DISTANCE PERCEPTION; HUMANS; ILLUSIONS; KINESTHESIS; MOVEMENT; ORIENTATION; PERCEPTION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; PSYCHOPHYSICS; TOUCH;

EID: 33947318951     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00221-006-0727-9     Document Type: Article

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