Physical determinants of the shape of the psychophysical curve relating tactile roughness to raised-dot spacing: Implications for neuronal coding of roughness

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 109, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 1403-1415

  Sutu, Adrian ^a   Meftah, El Mehdi ^a   Elaine Chapman, C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Invariance; Psychophysics; Tactile discrimination; Tactile scaling; Weber fractions

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MECHANICS; NORMAL HUMAN; PALPATION; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOMETRY; PSYCHOPHYSICS; ROUGHNESS; SENSORIMOTOR FUNCTION; SURFACE PROPERTY; TACTILE DISCRIMINATION; TACTILE STIMULATION;

ADULT; DIFFERENTIAL THRESHOLD; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); FEMALE; HAND; HUMANS; MALE; TOUCH; TOUCH PERCEPTION;

EID: 84874618626     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: 15221598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.00717.2012     Document Type: Article

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