Tactile discrimination of edge shape: Limits on spatial resolution imposed by parameters of the peripheral neural population

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 21, Issue 19, 2001, Pages 7751-7763

  Wheat, H E ^a   Goodwin, A W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Curvature; Edges; Form processing; Innervation density; Mechanoreceptive afferents; Somatosensory; Spatial coding; Tactile resolution

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; CELL POPULATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DENSITY; GEOMETRY; HUMAN; MONKEY; NERVE CELL; NOISE; NONHUMAN; PARAMETER; PERIPHERAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOPHYSICS; QUANTITATIVE ASSAY; SENSORY NERVE; TACTILE DISCRIMINATION;

EID: 0035478058     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.21-19-07751.2001     Document Type: Article

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