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A Tactile Automated Passive-Finger Stimulator TAPS
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Opening the black box of psychometrics
Jonathan J Wisco1, Jason Organ2
1Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, Boston University Aram V. Chobanian & Edward Avedisian School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
Anatomical Sciences Education
|July 3, 2025
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