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Effect Of Remote Vibrotactile Noise On Pinch Force Maintenance Ability And Brain Activity, Ying-Ling Tseng

Theses and Dissertations

Noise has been used to enhance detection of signals thereby improving performance of nonlinear systems (referred to as "stochastic resonance"). In biological systems, the noise and signal integration may occur not only at the receptor level but also in the central nervous system, thereby allowing noise remotely applied from a signal to enhance the system's response to the signal. However, integration of tactile signal and noise within the central nervous system has not been demonstrated in humans. In addition, whether the enhanced detection of tactile signals with remote noise results in changes in motor behavior is unknown.

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