Raised object on a planar surface stroked across the fingerpad: Responses of cutaneous mechanoreceptors to shape and orientation

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 80, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 2446-2466

  LaMotte, R H ^a   Friedman, R M ^a   Lu, C ^a   Khalsa, P S ^a   Srinivasan, M A ^b  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTION POTENTIAL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANTIDROMIC STIMULATION; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; MECHANORECEPTOR; NERVE ENDING; NONHUMAN; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTIVE FIELD; SENSORY NERVE CONDUCTION; SKIN NERVE; SKIN SENSATION; SPATIAL ORIENTATION; TACTILE DISCRIMINATION; TACTILE STIMULATION;

EID: 0031762201     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.1998.80.5.2446     Document Type: Article

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