Rasch-built measure of pleasant touch through active fingertip explorations

Frontiers in Neurorobotics

Volumn , Issue JUNE, 2012, Pages 1-9

  Klöcker, Anne ^a   Arnould, Carlyne ^b   Penta, Massimo ^a   Thonnard, Jean Louis ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

^b Montignies sur Sambre   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Active touch; Friction; Latent variable measurement; Moisture; Pleasantness; Rasch model

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INDEX FINGER; MALE; MOISTURE; NORMAL HUMAN; RASCH ANALYSIS; TOUCH; UNPLEASANT SENSATION;

EID: 84864745358     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16625218     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnbot.2012.00005     Document Type: Article

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