Citation

Richards PM, Persinger MA, Michel RN. Percept. Mot. Skills 1998; 86(3): 1259-1262.

Affiliation

Department of Psychology, Behavioral Neuroscience Program, Laurentian University, Sudbury, Ontario, Canada.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1998, SAGE Publishing)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

9700802

Abstract

Accuracies of two-point discrimination (successive 2-min increments between 0 and 10 mm) for the middle fingers and the middle toes for 87 children from ages 7 through 15 years were measured to obtain normative data. The finer discriminative capacity for the fingers rather than the toes was evident. Whereas discriminative accuracy approached the asymptote with distances equal to or greater than 4 mm for the fingers, distances equal to or greater than 8 mm were required for the toes. For this ontogenetic range, the effects for toes vs fingers was much greater than the effect size for age.

Language: en