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Touch uses frictional cues to discriminate flat materials

In a forced-choice task, we asked human participants to discriminate by touch alone glass plates from transparent polymethyl methacrylate (PMMA) plastic plates. While the surfaces were flat and did not exhibit geometric features beyond a few tens of nanometres, the materials differed by their molecu...

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Autores principales: Gueorguiev, David, Bochereau, Séréna, Mouraux, André, Hayward, Vincent, Thonnard, Jean-Louis
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4858763/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27149921
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/srep25553