This investigation determined if subthreshold two-point aesthesiometer separations could be discriminated from one-point on the dorsal forearm. A fixed-based matching signal-detection technique was employed. The results indicated that subjects can reliably discriminate two-point separations as small as 2 mm when compared to one point.
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