Sensory signals in neural populations underlying tactile perception and manipulation

Annual Review of Neuroscience

Volumn 27, Issue , 2004, Pages 53-77

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Cutaneous; Grasp; Mechanoreceptor; Primary afferent; Somatosensory

Indexed keywords

COGNITION; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; FINGER; GLABROUS SKIN; HAND GRIP; HUMAN; MECHANORECEPTOR; MECHANOTRANSDUCTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOPHYSICS; REVIEW; SENSORIMOTOR FUNCTION; SENSORY NERVE; SENSORY NERVE CONDUCTION; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; TOUCH;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; HAND; HAND STRENGTH; HUMANS; MECHANORECEPTORS; MECHANOTRANSDUCTION, CELLULAR; NEURONS, AFFERENT; SKIN; TOUCH;

EID: 1842488581     PISSN: 0147006X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.neuro.26.041002.131032     Document Type: Review

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