Obtaining information by dynamic (effortful) touching

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 366, Issue 1581, 2011, Pages 3123-3132

  Turvey, M T ^a,b   Carello, Claudia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^b HASKINS LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

Exploratory activity; Fractality; Information about; Invariants; Tensegrity

Indexed keywords

BIOMECHANICS; GEOMETRY; LIMB; MECHANORECEPTION; MOVEMENT; MUSCLE; RESEARCH WORK;

EID: 80053466535     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2011.0159     Document Type: Review

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