Electrotactile stimulation on the tongue: Intensity perception, discrimination, and cross-modality estimation

Somatosensory and Motor Research

Volumn 26, Issue 2-3, 2009, Pages 50-63

  Lozano, Cecil A ^a   Kaczmarek, Kurt A ^b,c   Santello, Marco ^a,d  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c University of Wisconsin Madison   (United States)

^d Arizona State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Dynamic range; Electrocutaneous; Human machine interface; Psychophysics; Sensory augmentation; Sensory substitution

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRIC CURRENT; ELECTROSTIMULATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LONG TERM EXPOSURE; MALE; MECHANORECEPTOR; NERVE FIBER; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTIVE THRESHOLD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPONSE TIME; SENSORY SYSTEM; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TACTILE DISCRIMINATION; TACTILE STIMULATION; TONGUE;

ADULT; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; SENSORY THRESHOLDS; TONGUE; TOUCH;

EID: 70249121804     PISSN: 08990220     EISSN: 13691651     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/08990220903158797     Document Type: Article

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