Vibrotactile temporal gap detection as a function of age
| Autor: | George A. Gescheider, Clayton L. Van Doren, Ronald T. Verrillo |
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| Rok vydání: | 1990 |
| Předmět: |
Adult
Male Aging medicine.medical_specialty Adolescent Acoustics and Ultrasonics Acoustics Sensory system Audiology Vibration Discrimination Learning Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) Sensory threshold Psychophysics medicine Humans Attention Discrimination learning Child Aged business.industry Middle Aged Time perception Noise Interval (music) Touch Sensory Thresholds Female business Thenar eminence |
| Zdroj: | The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 87:2201-2206 |
| ISSN: | 0001-4966 |
| DOI: | 10.1121/1.399187 |
| Popis: | The ability of subjects to detect temporal gaps between bursts of sinusoids or bursts of bandlimited noise was measured to evaluate the phenomenon of tactile ‘‘sensory persistence’’ in older persons. Vibratory stimuli were delivered to the right thenar eminence of 27 subjects ranging in age from 8–75 years. The subjects’ task was to detect the presence of a silent interval or ‘‘gap’’ between flanking 350‐ms vibrotactile stimuli. The gap‐detection threshold, expressed as the amplitude of vibration relative to the absolute detection threshold, decreased as the gap duration increased and was higher for gaps in noise than for gaps in sinusoids. The threshold for detecting short gaps increased with age for noise stimuli, but not for sinusoidal stimuli. Furthermore, the gap‐detection threshold recovered more rapidly in older subjects for noise stimuli, but less rapidly in older subjects for sinusoidal stimuli. Because of these differences, it appears that the effects of age on gap detection cannot be due to a simple increase in sensory persistence, but may be due to multiple processes. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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