Haptic discrimination of two-dimensional angles: Influence of exploratory strategy

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 178, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 240-251

  Levy, Myriam ^a   Bourgeon, Stéphanie ^a   Chapman, C Elaine ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Active touch; Cutaneous; Human psychophysics; Proprioceptive; Shape

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARM; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; FEMALE; HUMAN; INDEX FINGER; MALE; MICROCOMPUTER; MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPRIOCEPTION; REFERENCE MEMORY; SHOULDER; SKIN SENSITIVITY; TACTILE DISCRIMINATION; TACTILE STIMULATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; TOUCH;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); FEEDBACK; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; ORIENTATION; PROPRIOCEPTION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; PSYCHOPHYSICS; REACTION TIME; SENSORY THRESHOLDS; SKIN; SPACE PERCEPTION; TOUCH;

EID: 33947327225     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00221-006-0728-8     Document Type: Article

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