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Tactile pattern recognition was studied by presenting pairs of alphabetic shapes in rapid succession at the same anatomical location, the subject being required on each trial to identify bath of the patterns. Experimental variables were the duration of each stimulus and the time between stimuli. Three aspects of the observed interaction were (1) an increase in letter reversals for very short interstimulus intervals; (2) a greater percentage of first-response errors for short-stimulus onset intervals and a greater percentage of second-response errors for long-stimulus onset intervals; and (3) a crossover in the first- and second-response error rates in the range of 100 to 200 msec. after the onset of the first stimulus. These results are consistent with some of the temporal properties of models proposed for analogous visual tasks.
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1. The work reported in this paper was supported in part by the Research and Technology Division of the Air Force Avionics Laboratory, Aeronautical Systems Division. under Contract AF 33(615)-1099 with Stanford Research Institute, and in part by the National Institute of Neurological Diseases and Blindness under Grant NB 06412-01 with Stanford University. The alrjet tactile stimulators used in this study were developed at Stanford Research Institute under Contract NAS 2-1679 with Ames Research Center, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Moffett Field, California.
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Bliss, J.C., Crane, H.D., Link, S.W. et al. Tactile perception of sequentially presented spatial patterns. Perception & Psychophysics 1, 125–130 (1966). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03210042
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