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Most investigators of tactile sensitivity have assumed that one of the static aspects of the tactile stimulating event, pressure (Weber, 1846) or tension (Meissner, 1859; von Frey and Kiesow, (1899) was the relevant metric that best described the relationship between the stimulating event and the resulting sensation. Recently other investigators (e.g., Harrington and Merzenich, 1970; Knibestöl and Vallbo, 1980; Mountcastle and Darian-Smith, 1968) have used skin indentation depth as the appropriate metric to describe tactile stimuli.
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Kenshalo, D.R., Greenspan, J.D., Henderson, R. (1984). Velocity of Indentation as a Variable in Tactile Sensation. In: von Euler, C., Franzén, O., Lindblom, U., Ottoson, D. (eds) Somatosensory Mechanisms. Wenner-Gren Center International Symposium Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-07292-7_15
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