Natural scenes in tactile texture

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 111, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 1792-1802

  Manfredi, Louise R ^a   Saal, Hannes P ^a   Brown, Kyler J ^b   Zielinski, Mark C ^a   Dammann III, John F ^a   Polashock, Vicky S ^c   Bensmaia, Sliman J ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^c KIMBERLY CLARK CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Skin oscillations; Somatosensory periphery; Texture perception

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; EXPLORATORY RESEARCH; FEMALE; FINGER; GEOMETRY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN SURFACE; SURFACE PROPERTY; TOUCH; VIBRATION; INNERVATION; PHYSIOLOGY;

ADULT; FEMALE; FINGERS; HUMANS; MALE; TOUCH; TOUCH PERCEPTION; VIBRATION;

EID: 84900834998     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: 15221598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.00680.2013     Document Type: Article

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