Timeline for What is the smallest touch sensation that a human can feel?
Current License: CC BY-SA 3.0
13 events
| when toggle format | what | by | license | comment | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 15, 2017 at 11:56 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackBiology/status/841981424534196225 | ||
| Mar 9, 2017 at 13:43 | comment | added | AliceD♦ | @fileunderwater - the other comments were dealt with and I'm afraid I might have flagged your commentfor deletion - too quick perhaps. But let me put it this way - in psychophysics there is always a huge variation between people. Detection thresholds are subjective - people draw their own threshold. I, for example, generate relatively a lot of false positives, because I tend to feel stuff that is simply not phsysically present (it may be present in my mind for sure). Other folks pick a more stringent threshold and only say 'Yes' when they are absolutely sure they are feeling it | |
| Mar 9, 2017 at 13:39 | comment | added | fileunderwater | @AliceD My point was not that it is about population averages, but that the smallest sensation/stimuli that a person can feel is likely to differ alot between persons, so the question is ill-posed. And removing hypersensitive persons feels like an arbitrary cut-off, when sensitivity is likely to differ dramatically between "healthy" persons. | |
| Mar 9, 2017 at 13:36 | comment | added | fileunderwater | What happened to all the previous comments? They are hardly irrelevant to the current question. @AliceD, do you have any idea? | |
| Mar 9, 2017 at 11:36 | vote | accept | HPL | ||
| Mar 9, 2017 at 10:59 | history | edited | AliceD♦ | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
added 11 characters in body; edited tags
|
| Mar 9, 2017 at 10:57 | answer | added | AliceD♦ | timeline score: 10 | |
| Mar 9, 2017 at 10:22 | history | edited | HPL | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
added 22 characters in body
|
| Mar 9, 2017 at 10:09 | comment | added | AliceD♦ | @fileunderwater - of course it's all about population averages. However I do agree with daniel; there are still many variables left; static pressure thresholds differ from hose obtained by vibrotactile stimuli. Furthermore, sensitivity goes down from fingertips > palm > back of the hand | |
| Mar 9, 2017 at 9:20 | review | Close votes | |||
| Mar 9, 2017 at 14:29 | |||||
| Mar 9, 2017 at 8:16 | history | edited | HPL | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
added 18 characters in body
|
| Mar 9, 2017 at 8:02 | review | First posts | |||
| Mar 9, 2017 at 12:37 | |||||
| Mar 9, 2017 at 8:00 | history | asked | HPL | CC BY-SA 3.0 |