Tactile sensibility in the human hand: relative and absolute densities of four types of mechanoreceptive units in glabrous skin.

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  1979

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  Journal of Physiology

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  Biology, Medicine, Physics

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  DOI 10.1113/jphysiol.1979.sp012619PMID 439026PMCID PMC1281571
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