Sufficiency of Longitudinal Moment of Inertia for Haptic Cylinder Length Judgments

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 373-394

  Cabe, Patrick A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT PEMBROKE   (United States)

Author keywords

dynamic touch; haptic perception; length perception

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PERCEPTION; REACTION TIME; TOUCH;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; FEMALE; FORM PERCEPTION; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REACTION TIME; SIZE PERCEPTION; TOUCH PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77950581935     PISSN: 00961523     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0018395     Document Type: Article

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