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Tactile Responses to Vibration

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The skin is by far the largest organ of the human body having an area of approximately 1.85 m2 in the adult male and 1.65 m2 in the adult female with an average weight of about 9 lb., comprising about 6% of the total body weight. In thickness it ranges from an average of 4.4 mm in non-hairy skin to 2.1 mm in hairy skin. It is thin over the eyelids and thick at the soles of the feet. The human body contains four types of skin.

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Verrillo, R.T., Bolanowski, S.J. (2008). Tactile Responses to Vibration. In: Havelock, D., Kuwano, S., Vorländer, M. (eds) Handbook of Signal Processing in Acoustics. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-30441-0_62

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