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In connexion with extension elaborate psycho-physical experiments have been devised,.e.g. with the object of comparing the accuracy of tactual and visual perception and discovering what are the least differences which each can observe.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 1 "Evangelical Church Conference" to "Fairbairn, Sir William" by Various

The parrot is the most intelligent of birds, and its tactual power is also greatest.

From Fragments of science, V. 1-2 by Tyndall, John

There are observations which associate impaired tactual sense and impaired perception of posture and movement of a limb with injury of the central region of the cortex.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 4 "Bradford, William" to "Brequigny, Louis" by Various

There would be few instances in his limited experience more marked of invariable antecedence and consequence than this,—that the muscular sensation would sooner or later be followed by a tactual one.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 379, May, 1847 by Various

There are tactual vibrations which do not belong to skin-touch.

From The World I Live In by Keller, Helen