Tactile roughness discrimination threshold is unrelated to tactile spatial acuity

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 208, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 473-478

  Libouton, Xavier ^a,b   Barbier, Olivier ^b   Plaghki, Leon ^a   Thonnard, Jean Louis ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

^b CLINIQUES UNIVERSITAIRES SAINT LUC   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Psychophysics; Tactile roughness discrimination; Tactile spatial resolution acuity; Texture; Threshold

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHILD; FEMALE; HARDNESS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PARAMETER; PARTICLE SIZE; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PERFORMANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ROUGHNESS; TACTILE DISCRIMINATION; TACTILE SPATIAL RESOLUTION THRESHOLD;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CHILD; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SENSORY THRESHOLDS; SIGNAL DETECTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; SPACE PERCEPTION; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TORQUE; TOUCH; TOUCH PERCEPTION; VISUAL ACUITY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77249132998     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: 18727549     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2009.12.017     Document Type: Article

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