Aging affects attunement in perceiving length by dynamic touch

Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics

Volumn 73, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 1216-1226

  Withagen, Rob ^a   Caljouw, Simone R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Aging; Attunement; Dynamic touch; Ecological psychology

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CONCEPT FORMATION; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HAND STRENGTH; HUMAN; KINESTHESIA; LONG TERM MEMORY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PERCEPTION; PROPRIOCEPTION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REFERENCE VALUE; TOUCH;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; ATTENTION; CONCEPT FORMATION; FEEDBACK, PSYCHOLOGICAL; FEMALE; HAND STRENGTH; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; KINESTHESIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROPRIOCEPTION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REFERENCE VALUES; RETENTION (PSYCHOLOGY); SIZE PERCEPTION; STEREOGNOSIS; TOUCH; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79955830469     PISSN: 19433921     EISSN: 1943393X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/s13414-011-0092-z     Document Type: Article

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