Haptic shape perception from force and position signals varies with exploratory movement direction and the exploring finger

Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics

Volumn 71, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 1174-1184

  Drewing, Knut ^a   Kaim, Lukas ^a  

^a JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COMPUTER INTERFACE; FEMALE; FINGER; HUMAN; ILLUSION; MALE; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PSYCHOPHYSICS; TOUCH;

ADULT; FEMALE; FINGERS; FORM PERCEPTION; HUMANS; ILLUSIONS; MALE; ORIENTATION; PSYCHOPHYSICS; STEREOGNOSIS; TOUCH; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 68949166019     PISSN: 19433921     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/APP.71.5.1174     Document Type: Article

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