Neural coding mechanisms in tactile pattern recognition: The relative contributions of slowly and rapidly adapting mechanoreceptors to perceived roughness

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 17, Issue 19, 1997, Pages 7480-7489

  Blake, David T ^a   Hsiao, Steven S ^a   Johnson, Kenneth O ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Mechanoreceptor; Neurophysiology; P sychophysics; Pattern recognition; Rhesus; Roughness; Somatosensory; Texture

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MECHANORECEPTOR; NERVE CELL EXCITABILITY; NONHUMAN; NORMAL HUMAN; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORY NERVE; SOMATOSENSORY SYSTEM; SURFACE PROPERTY; TACTILE DISCRIMINATION;

EID: 0030863893     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.17-19-07480.1997     Document Type: Article

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