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Dynamic (Effortful) Touch

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Dynamic or effortful touch is a subsystem of the haptic perceptual system (Gibson 1966). It is the most common form of touch, hardly noticed as such, and rarely studied (until recently).

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  1. Center for the Ecological Study of Perception and Action, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, USA

    Claudia Carello & Michael Turvey

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  1. Dept. of Psychology, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, United Kingdom

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  2. Department of Neurobiology, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel

    Ehud Ahissar

  3. Brain Corporation, San Diego, California, USA

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Carello, C., Turvey, M. (2016). Dynamic (Effortful) Touch. In: Prescott, T., Ahissar, E., Izhikevich, E. (eds) Scholarpedia of Touch. Scholarpedia. Atlantis Press, Paris. https://doi.org/10.2991/978-94-6239-133-8_18

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