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RESEARCH PRODUCT

Psychophysical response to electrocutaneous stimulation.

G. L. AielloM. A. Valenza

subject

business.industryBiomedical EngineeringSensationStimulation procedurePattern recognitionStimulationSensory systemProbability density functionElectrocutaneous stimulationPower lawElectric StimulationBinary informationDiscrimination PsychologicalPsychophysicsHumansArtificial intelligenceEvoked potentialPsychologybusinessSkin

description

A method is presented to determine a reliable stimulus-sensation relationship particularly suitable for electrocutaneous stimulation. An experimental intensity-discrimination curve was obtained through simple psychophysical comparison tasks, and sensory response was inferred from integration of a JND's density function. The psychophysical response resembles a power law, although departures cannot be described in terms of a unique exponent. An estimate of binary information capacity per electrode is also given as a feature of a stimulation procedure that preserves a low value of the size-intensity product.

yearjournalcountryeditionlanguage
1984-08-01IEEE transactions on bio-medical engineering
10.1109/tbme.1984.325426https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/6490033