Tactile Sensitivity and Capability of Soft-Solid Texture Discrimination

Journal of Texture Studies

Volumn 46, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 429-439

  Aktar, Tugba ^a,b   Chen, Jianshe ^c   Ettelaie, Rammile ^a   Holmes, Melvin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^b ABDULLAH GUL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^c ZHEJIANG GONGSHANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Tactile sensation; Texture discrimination; Texture perception; Texture sensation; Touch sensitivity; Two point discrimination

Indexed keywords

ELASTICITY; FOOD PRODUCTS; PRODUCT DESIGN;

TACTILE SENSATION; TEXTURE DISCRIMINATION; TEXTURE PERCEPTION; TOUCH SENSITIVITY; TWO-POINT;

SENSORY ANALYSIS;

EID: 84958838723     PISSN: 00224901     EISSN: 17454603     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/jtxs.12142     Document Type: Article

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