This investigation determined if subthreshold two-point aesthesiometer separations could be discriminated from one-point on the back, using a fixed-based matching signal detection technique. Subjects reliably discriminated two-point separations as small as 2 mm from one point on the back. In addition, the back appears to be more sensitive to discriminating two points from one point than the dorsal forearm.
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