Encoding of shape and orientation of objects indented into the monkey fingerpad by populations of slowly and rapidly adapting mechanoreceptors

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 79, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 3238-3251

  Khalsa, Partap S ^a   Friedman, Robert M ^a   Srinivasan, Mandayam A ^b   Lamotte, Robert H ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CELL POPULATION; FINGER; MECHANORECEPTOR; MONKEY; NONHUMAN; ORIENTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTIVE FIELD;

EID: 0031845272     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.1998.79.6.3238     Document Type: Article

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