tactual

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But there we have to do principally with tactual perception, since the reader touches the hand of the subject and is guided by its tremor.

From Clever Hans (The horse of Mr. Von Osten): A contribution to experimental animal and human psychology by Pfungst, Oskar

The slow change in the position of the tactual sensations evidently produces a rather strong influence on the equilibrium of nervous impulses, and here again vasomotor reflexes seem to arise easily.

From Psychotherapy by Münsterberg, Hugo

He finds no difficulty in analyzing it into color sensations and tactual sensations; and yet he is aware of so much more in it.

From Psychotherapy by Münsterberg, Hugo

The tactual succession from the great Bishop of New Zealand has therefore passed to the present episcopate only through two of the missionaries who were at work in the country before his arrival.

From A History of the English Church in New Zealand by Purchas, H. T. (Henry Thomas)

The vident apprehends its various features simultaneously and at once; the blind, by successive tactual palpations.

From Essays Towards a Theory of Knowledge by Philip, Alexander