The contribution of proprioceptive and cutaneous cues in weight perception: Early evidence for maximum-likelihood integration

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 6191 LNCS, Issue PART 1, 2010, Pages 11-16

  Giachritsis, Christos ^a   Wright, Rachel ^a   Wing, Alan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cutaneous; Maximum Likelihood Estimation; Proprioception; Psychophysics; Weight Perception

Indexed keywords

DISCRIMINATION EXPERIMENTS; PROPRIOCEPTION; RELATIVE IMPORTANCE; WEIGHT INFORMATION; WEIGHT PERCEPTION;

ESTIMATION; INFORMATION USE; PHYSICS; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY; WEIGHING;

MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION;

EID: 77955152781     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-14064-8_2     Document Type: Conference Paper

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