Human haptic perception is interrupted by explorative stops of milliseconds

Introduction: The explorative scanning movements of the hands have been compared to those of the eyes. The visual process is known to be composed of alternating phases of saccadic eye movements and fixation pauses. Descriptive results suggest that during the haptic exploration of objects short movem...

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Main Authors: Martin eGrunwald, Manivannan eMuniyandi, Hyun eKim, Jung eKim, Frank eKrause, Stephanie eMueller, Mandayam A. Srinivasan
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2014-04-01
Series:Frontiers in Psychology
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fpsyg.2014.00292/full