Neural coding of the location and direction of a moving object by a spatially distributed population of mechanoreceptors

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 22, Issue 21, 2002, Pages 9556-9566

  Friedman, Robert M ^a   Khalsa, Partap S ^a   Greenquist, Kenneth W ^a   LaMotte, Robert H ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cutaneous afferent; Direction; Fingerpad; Location; Mechanoreceptor; Movement

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; FINGER; MALE; MECHANORECEPTOR; MONKEY; MOTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORY NERVE; SKIN;

EID: 0036848571     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.22-21-09556.2002     Document Type: Article

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