Touch perception throughout working life: Effects of age and expertise

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 216, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 287-297

  Reuter, Eva Maria ^a   Voelcker Rehage, Claudia ^a   Vieluf, Solveig ^a   Godde, Ben ^a  

^a JACOBS UNIVERSITY BREMEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Aging; Expertise; Haptics; Tactile perception

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTION; PERCEPTIVE THRESHOLD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF WORKING LIFE; SENSORY EVALUATION; TACTILE DISCRIMINATION; TOUCH;

ADULT; AGED; AGING; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR SKILLS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; PERCEPTION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; SENSORY THRESHOLDS; SPACE PERCEPTION; TOUCH; WORK;

EID: 84856256997     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: 14321106     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00221-011-2931-5     Document Type: Article

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