Rasch-built measure of pleasant touch through active fingertip explorations

Rasch-built measure of pleasant touch through active fingertip explorations

BACKGROUND: Growing evidence exists that the somatic sensation has a modality for pleasant touch. OBJECTIVE: Investigate pleasant touch at fingertip level (i.e. glabrous skin site) through the elaboration of a linear unidimensional scale locating (i) various materials according to their pleasantness...

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Main Authors: Anne eKlöcker, Massimo ePenta, Carlyne eArnould, Jean-Louis eThonnard
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2012-06-01
Series:Frontiers in Neurorobotics
Subjects:
Friction
active touch
Rasch model
latent variable measurement
moisture
pleasantness
Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fnbot.2012.00005/full

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