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From pre- + touch.
pretouch (not comparable)
- Prior to a touch
2015, Samuel Andrew Hires et al., “Low-noise encoding of active touch by layer 4 in the somatosensory cortex”, in eLife[1], volume 4, →DOI:We z-scored pretouch velocity and the maximum curvature change shortly after touch (0–20 ms).
