title: Are there critical bands in kinesthesia?
abstract: The effect of changing the bandwidth of noise on the ability of human subjects to detect a 10-Hz sinusoidal movement signal was measured in two experiments. The objective of these studies was to investigate whether critical bands exist for the kinesthetic system, as has been demonstrated for the auditory and tactile systems. It was found that subjects' ability to detect a 10-Hz sinusoidal movement stimulus embedded in noise was not influenced by the bandwidth of the noise over a range of 4-10 Hz. These findings suggest that, if a critical filter does exist for this system, it would have to be greater than 10 Hz.
authors.affiliation: Department of Mechanical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge 02139, USA. ljones@mit.edu
authors.forename: L A
authors.initials: LA
authors.lastname: Jones
authors.forename: I W
authors.initials: IW
authors.lastname: Hunter
authors.forename: R J
authors.initials: RJ
authors.lastname: Irwin
mesh_terms: D001307:Auditory Perception / Q000502:physiology; D003463:Cues; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007699:Kinesthesis / Q000502:physiology*; D008297:Male; D010470:Perceptual Masking / Q000502:physiology; D014796:Visual Perception / Q000502:physiology