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A NEW INSTRUMENT FOR MEASURING TACTILE SENSITIVITY
Author(s) -
Streeter Harrison
Publication year - 1969
Publication title -
psychophysiology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.661
H-Index - 156
eISSN - 1469-8986
pISSN - 0048-5772
DOI - 10.1111/j.1469-8986.1969.tb02846.x
Subject(s) - psychology , stimulus (psychology) , impulse (physics) , audiology , tactile stimuli , sensitivity (control systems) , acoustics , cognitive psychology , sensory system , physics , engineering , medicine , quantum mechanics , electronic engineering
An apparatus has been developed that measures tactile sensitivity using short, intermittent air bursts of variable intensity as the stimulus. Subjects easily learn to find their own tactile threshold as measured by an impulse of just noticeable pressure. Cost of construction of the device is modest.