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Information-Processing Channels in the Tactile Sensory System

A Psychophysical and Physiological Analysis

Information-Processing Channels in the Tactile Sensory System
  • Edited by George A. Gescheider, John H. Wright and Ronald T. Verrillo.

Published December 2008

Information-Processing Channels in the Tactile Sensory System addresses the fundamental question of whether sensory channels, similar to those known to operate in vision and audition, also operate in the sense of touch. Based on the results of psychophysical and neurophysiological experimentation…
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Space and Sense

Space and Sense
  • By Susanna Millar.

Published April 2008

How do we perceive the space around us, locate objects within it, and make our way through it? What do the senses contribute? This book focuses on touch in order to examine which aspects of vision and touch overlap in spatial processing. It argues that spatial processing depends crucially on…
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E.H. Weber On The Tactile Senses

  • By E.H. Weber.
  • Edited by David J. Murray, Helen E. Ross and E.H Weber.

Published January 1996

This is a revised edition of "E.H. Weber: The Sense of Touch". The title has been broadened to reflect the fact that Weber explored all the skin senses - and indeed the muscle sense and that mysterious entity "the common feeling". The introduction has been expanded to include further information on…
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