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The sense of flutter-vibration: comparison of the human capacity with response patterns of mechanoreceptive afferents from the monkey hand.

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Early-blind human subjects localize sound sources better than sighted subjects

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Health Professions, Vision Science, Hearing Science +13

Tactile spatial resolution. I. Two-point discrimination, gap detection, grating resolution, and letter recognition

Kenneth O. Johnson, John R. Phillips · Journal of Neurophysiology · 1981 · 534 citations

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