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Scinob Kuroki, Nobuhiro Hagura, Shin’ya Nishida, Patrick Haggard, Junji Watanabe
Sanshool on The Fingertip Interferes with Vibration Detection in a Rapidly-Adapting (RA) Tactile Channel
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