A kinematic cue for active haptic shape perception

Brain Research

Volumn 1267, Issue , 2009, Pages 25-36

  Sanders, Abram F J ^a   Kappers, Astrid M L ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Active touch; Curvature; Exploratory movement; Haptic perception; Psychophysics; Shape

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; FEMALE; FINGER; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; KINEMATICS; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOPHYSICS; ROTATION; SKIN; TACTILE STIMULATION; TOUCH;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BIOMECHANICS; CUES; FEMALE; FINGERS; HUMANS; MALE; PHYSICAL STIMULATION; PSYCHOMETRICS; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; PSYCHOPHYSICS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; ROTATION; STEREOGNOSIS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 63449107467     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2009.02.038     Document Type: Article

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