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This study was designed to investigate possible relationships between threshold and suprathreshold lingual tactile processes, and to determine how accurately mean suprathreshold scaling values represent the behavior of individual subjects. Lingual vibrotactile threshold and suprathreshold values were obtained from 26 normal young adults. Results indicated that there was no statistically significant correlation between the threshold and suprathreshold data. It was also determined that mean sensation magnitude values may not accurately represent the behavior of individual subjects.
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Petrosino, L., Harris, D. & Fucci, D. Threshold and magnitude exponent function correlations for the human tongue. Bull. Psychon. Soc. 23, 127–129 (1985). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03329802
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