ArticleRoyal Society open science2017
Biophysical properties of the human finger for touch comprehension: influences of ageing and gender.
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15 citing papers in PubMed.
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- Frictional instabilities as an alternative to friction coefficient in fine touch perception.eLife · 2026Article
- Novel Compact Tactile Stimulator with Sensing: Designed for Individuals with a Brain Injury and MRI.IEEE transactions on medical robotics and bionics · 2026Article
- Normal force in natural active touch correlates with fingertip stiffness.Scientific reports · 2026Article
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- Emotion Measurements Through the Touch of Materials Surfaces.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2019Article
- Static and active tactile perception and touch anisotropy: aging and gender effect.Scientific reports · 2018Article
- Impact of finger biophysical properties on touch gestures and tactile perception: Aging and gender effects.Scientific reports · 2018Article
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Abstract
The human finger plays an extremely important role in tactile perception, but little is known about how age and gender affect its biophysical properties and their role in tactile perception. We combined studies on contact characteristics, mechanical properties and surface topography to understand age and gender effects on the human finger. The values obtained regarding contact characteristics (i.e. adhesive force) were significantly higher for women than for men. As for mechanical properties (i.e. Young's modulus
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