How is tactile information affected by parameters of the population such as non-uniform fiber sensitivity, innervation geometry and response variability?

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 135, Issue 1-2, 2002, Pages 5-10

  Goodwin, A W ^a   Wheat, H E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Curvature; Fiber sensitivity; Innervation density; Merkel afferents; Neural code; Population response; Tactile resolution

Indexed keywords

CONFERENCE PAPER; COVARIANCE; DENSITY; GEOMETRY; HUMAN; INNERVATION; NOISE; POPULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TOUCH;

FINGERS; HUMANS; INDIVIDUALITY; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NERVE FIBERS; POPULATION; TOUCH;

EID: 0037145104     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0166-4328(02)00148-1     Document Type: Conference Paper

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