| Jennifer Payne
Touch Sensitivity: Two-Point Discrimination
| Division: | Health Sciences | | Category: | Intermediate | | Region: | Algoma Rotary | | City: | Sault Ste. Marie, ON | | School: | Sir James Dunn C & VS | | Abstract: | My experiment determined how age, gender, location and dominancy affected minimum two-point discrimination distance (m2pdd). M2pdd’s increased with age. Index finger and thumb values were similar, whereas palm m2pdd’s were greater. Gender and dominancy didn’t affect m2pdd. Applications for this work include use as base values for diagnosis of neurological conditions. |
| Awards | Value | The University of Western Ontario Scholarship
Bronze Medallist - $1000 Entrance Scholarship
Sponsor: University of Western Ontario | $1 000.00 | Bronze Medal - Health Sciences
Intermediate
Sponsor: Canadian Institutes of Health Research | $300.00 | | Total | $1 300.00 | |
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