Publication Date:
1979-11-02
Description:
The distribution of mass in an object held in the hand, as described by its moment of inertia, is a fundamental and potent but largely unrecognized contributor to the object's "feel." A limited set of experiments has produced Weber fractions for human differential sensitivity to this property in the approximate range of 1/5 to 1/3, which is about ten times the Weber fraction reported for lifted weights.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Kreifeldt, J G -- Chuang, M C -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1979 Nov 2;206(4418):588-90.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/493965" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
Biophysical Phenomena
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*Biophysics
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Female
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Humans
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Male
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Weight Perception/*physiology
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Electronic ISSN:
1095-9203
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Computer Science
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
