Textural timbre: The perception of surface microtexture depends in part on multimodal spectral cues

Communicative and Integrative Biology

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 344-346

  Yau, Jeffrey M ^a,b   Hollins, Mark ^c   Bensmaia, Sliman J ^a,b  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

Author keywords

Audition; Interaction; Multisensory integration; Somatosensory; Temporal frequency; Texture

Indexed keywords

EID: 69249159535     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19420889     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4161/cib.2.4.8551     Document Type: Article

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