Re: vibration and rainfall

[Jan Schnupp <jan.schnupp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Dear Matt,

on Charles Spence's recommendation I got an Oticon "bone conductor" as 
vibrotactile device which I used to vibrate finger tips of human 
volunteers in a psychophysics study on multi-sensory integration. That 
worked rather well. You can download the paper from 
www.physiol.ox.ac.uk/~jan/SchnuppDawePollackEBR2005.pdf if you are 
interested.

Jan

Matt Marble wrote:

> hello all,
>
>      i am curious if anyone knows where i might be able to purchase a 
> fairly inexpensive vibrotactile transducer with a fairly wide 
> frequency range? Also, what research is currently being done with this 
> technology? i know of Chladni's and Jenny's work with visualized 
> vibratory phenomena and of Bekesy's work with sensory inhibition - but 
> that's not so recent (though no less significant!).
>
> Also i am planning a comparative acoustical analysis of rainfall on 
> land. Is there any other such studies (i know of the work on ocean 
> rainfall)? Perhaps from the Ecological Psychoacoustics folks? In any 
> case... Thanks,
>
> Matt
>
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