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Diminutive Digits Discern Delicate Details: Fingertip Size and the Sex Difference in Tactile Spatial Acuity

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Peters, Ryan M., Hackeman, Erik, Goldreich, Daniel·2009·The Journal of Neuroscience

DOI 10.1523/jneurosci.3684-09.2009PMC PMC3849661

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We have observed that passive tactile spatial acuity, the ability to resolve the spatial structure of surfaces pressed upon the skin, differs subtly but consistently between the sexes, with women able to perceive finer surface detail than men. Eschewing complex central explanations, we hypothesized that this sex difference in somatosensory perception might result from simple physical differences between the fingers of women and men. To investigate, we tested 50 women and 50 men on a tactile grating orientation task and measured the surface area of the participants' index fingertips. In subsets of participants, we additionally measured finger skin compliance and optically imaged the fingerprint microstructure to count sweat pores. We show here that tactile perception improves with decreasing finger size, and that this correlation fully explains the better perception of women, who on average have smaller fingers than men. Indeed, when sex and finger size are both considered in statistical analyses, only finger size predicts tactile acuity. Thus, a man and a woman with fingers of equal size will, on average, enjoy equal tactile acuity. We further show that sweat pores, and presumably the Merkel receptors beneath them, are packed more densely in smaller fingers.

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Authors: Peters, R. M., Hackeman, E., & Goldreich, D.
Affiliations: McMaster University (CA)
Duquesne University (US)
ORCID: Peters, Ryan M.
Goldreich, Daniel
Venue: The Journal of Neuroscience
Publisher: Society for Neuroscience
Published: 2009-12-16
Volume: 29
Issue: 50
Pages: 15756-15761
ISSN: 0270-6474 (ISSN-L)
1529-2401
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.3684-09.2009
PMC: PMC3849661
OpenAlex: W2081914368
Cited by: 231
References: 46
Citations by year: 2026: 15 · 2025: 24 · 2024: 19 · 2023: 12 · 2022: 25 · 2021: 19 · 2020: 18 · 2019: 13 · 2018: 17 · 2017: 10 · 2016: 5 · 2015: 7 · 2014: 11 · 2013: 10 · 2012: 10
FWCI: 4.21
Type: journal article
Language: en
Open access: hybrid
doi.org
Licence: cc-by-nc-sa
creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ (vor, 182 d)
Locations: Journal of Neuroscience (publishedVersion, cc-by-nc-sa)
Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (publishedVersion)
PubMed Central (publishedVersion)
PubMed (publishedVersion)
Funders: National Eye Institute
Topics: Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Tactile and Sensory Interactions
Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Motor Control and Adaptation
Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Visual perception and processing mechanisms
Keywords: tactile spatial acuity, sex differences, somatosensory perception, sweat pores
MeSH terms: Adolescent, Adult, Female, Fingers, Humans, Male, Sensory Thresholds, Sex Characteristics, Space Perception, Touch, Merkel Cells, Touch Perception, Young Adult

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