Moving the Weber Fraction: The Perceptual Precision for Moment of Inertia Increases with Exploration Force

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 9, 2012, Pages

  Debats, Nienke B ^a   Kingma, Idsart ^a   Beek, Peter J ^a   Smeets, Jeroen B J ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; ARTICLE; DEPTH PERCEPTION; EXPLORATION FORCE; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; FORCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MATHEMATICAL PARAMETERS; MECHANICS; MOMENT OF INERTIA; NORMAL HUMAN; QUANTITATIVE STUDY; SIGNAL DETECTION; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TACTILE STIMULATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; WEBER FRACTION;

ADULT; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PERCEPTION; PSYCHOMETRICS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84866456593     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0042941     Document Type: Article

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