Prediction of vibrotactile masking functions
- 1 November 1982
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Acoustical Society of America (ASA) in The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America
- Vol. 72 (5) , 1421-1426
- https://doi.org/10.1121/1.388449
Abstract
Threshold shifts for the detection of vibrotactile test stimuli were determined as a function of the intensity of a masker. The masking stimulus, narrow‐band noise centered at 275 Hz, and the test stimulus, a 15‐, 50‐, 80‐, or 300‐Hz sinusoidal burst, were applied to the same site on the thenar eminence of the hand. The intensity of the masker was varied over a range of 0 to 52 dB SL. The results support the hypothesis that the detection of vibrotactile stimuli is mediated by at least two receptor systems which do not mask each other.This publication has 5 references indexed in Scilit:
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