Tactile Motion Adaptation Reduces Perceived Speed but Shows No Evidence of Direction Sensitivity

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 9, 2012, Pages

  McIntyre, Sarah ^a   Holcombe, Alex O ^a   Birznieks, Ingvars ^b,c,d   Seizova Cajic, Tatjana ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN SYDNEY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^d NEUROSCIENCE RESEARCH AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MOTOR CONTROL; MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; NORMAL HUMAN; PSYCHOPHYSICS; TACTILE STIMULATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; TOUCH;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; HUMANS; MOTION PERCEPTION; PSYCHOPHYSICS; TOUCH;

EID: 84866636190     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0045438     Document Type: Article

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