Performance of blind and sighted humans on a tactile grating detection task

Perception and Psychophysics

Volumn 68, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 1363-1371

  Goldreich, Daniel ^a,b   Kanics, Ingrid M ^a  

^a DUQUESNE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

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EID: 34247149363     PISSN: 00315117     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BF03193735     Document Type: Review

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