title: QUANTITATIVE ASPECTS OF CUTANEOUS SENSORY ADAPTATION. I.
abstract: 1. Adaptation of tactile receptors in the skin of the frog to excitation by an intermittent jet of air is measured and correlated with certain properties of a series of notched discs used to interrupt the air stream. 2. Adaptation in fifteen cases is found to be described by either one of two empirical formulas, or t = -k log f + C, for nine preparations t = a f(-b), for six preparations where f is the per cent frequency at time t and -k and -b are constants defining the rate of adaptation.
authors.affiliation: Physiological Laboratory, Clark University, Worcester.
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Hoagland