A critical experimental study of the classical tactile threshold theory

BMC Neuroscience

Volumn 11, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Perez, Claudio A ^a   Donoso, José R ^b   Medina, Leonel E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHILE   (Chile)

^b HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FORCED CHOICE METHOD; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTIVE THRESHOLD; PSYCHOPHYSICS; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TACTILE DISCRIMINATION; VALIDITY; VIBRATION SENSE; ADULT; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; DECISION MAKING; PHYSIOLOGY; TOUCH; VIBRATION;

ADULT; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; HUMANS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; SENSORY THRESHOLDS; TOUCH PERCEPTION; VIBRATION;

EID: 77953643014     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712202     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2202-11-76     Document Type: Article

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