Using space and time to encode vibrotactile information: toward an estimate of the skin’s achievable throughput

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 233, Issue 10, 2015, Pages 2777-2788

  Novich, Scott D ^a,b   Eagleman, David M ^a,b  

^a BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Rice University   (United States)

Author keywords

Information transfer; Sensory substitution; Skin; Sound to touch; Vibrotactile

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HEARING AID; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION; LIP READING; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTIVE FIELD; SKIN; SOUND; SPACE; SPEECH; SPEECH PERCEPTION; STIMULUS; TIME; TOUCH; VIBRATION; VIBROTACTILE AID; VIBROTACTILE INFORMATION; VISION; DEPTH PERCEPTION; FUNCTIONS OF THE SKIN AND ITS APPENDAGES; PHYSIOLOGY; TIME PERCEPTION;

ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; SKIN PHYSIOLOGICAL PROCESSES; SPACE PERCEPTION; TIME PERCEPTION; TOUCH PERCEPTION; VIBRATION;

EID: 84942369525     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: 14321106     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00221-015-4346-1     Document Type: Article

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