Relative finger position influences whether you can localize tactile stimuli

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 208, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 245-255

  Overvliet, K E ^a,b,c   Anema, H A ^d,e   Brenner, E ^a   Dijkerman, H C ^d   Smeets, J B J ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^d UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^e UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Fingers; Hands; Haptics; Human; Proprioception; Touch

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; FEMALE; FINGER; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; POSITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPRIOCEPTION; TACTILE STIMULATION;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; FEMALE; FINGERS; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MALE; PHYSICAL STIMULATION; PROPRIOCEPTION; TOUCH; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 78951488003     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00221-010-2475-0     Document Type: Article

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