Perception of touch quality in piano tones

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 136, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 2839-2850

  Goebl, Werner ^a   Bresin, Roberto ^b   Fujinaga, Ichiro ^c  

^a Universitat fur Musik und darstellende Kunst Wien   (Austria)

^b ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^c MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCELEROMETRY; ADULT; ASSOCIATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DEVICES; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FEMALE; FINGER; HEARING; HUMAN; MALE; MECHANICAL STRESS; MIDDLE AGED; MUSIC; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGY; SOUND; SOUND DETECTION; TOUCH; YOUNG ADULT;

ACCELEROMETRY; ADULT; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; CUES; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); EQUIPMENT AND SUPPLIES; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FEMALE; FINGERS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSIC; SOUND; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; STRESS, MECHANICAL; TOUCH; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84908565994     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.4896461     Document Type: Article

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