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This study was designed to examine the effect of a prestimulus cue on lingual vibrotactile thresholds. A light was presented as the prestimulus cue to 20 subjects who served as their own control. The thresholds obtained with the prestimulus cue were statistically significantly lower and less variable than the thresholds obtained without the cue.
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Fucci, D.J., Wilson, H.F. & Curtis, A.P. The effect of a prestimulus cue on vibrotactile thresholds. Bull. Psychon. Soc. 8, 379–380 (1976). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03335173
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03335173