Effects of nonuniform fiber sensitivity, innervation geometry, and noise on information relayed by a population of slowly adapting type I primary afferents from the fingerpad

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 19, Issue 18, 1999, Pages 8057-8070

  Goodwin, Antony W ^a   Wheat, Heather E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Contact force; Correlated noise; Covariance; Innervation density; Neural code; Neural noise; Population response; Position on skin; Tactile resolution; Tactile shape

Indexed keywords

SLOW ADAPTING RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; FINGER; MACACA; MUSCLE INNERVATION; MUSCLE SPINDLE AFFERENT NERVE; NOISE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TACTILE DISCRIMINATION;

EID: 0033568864     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.19-18-08057.1999     Document Type: Article

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