Population-response model for vibrotactile spatial summation

Somatosensory and Motor Research

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 239-253

  Güçlü, Burak ^a   Gescheider, George A ^b   Bolanowski, Stanley J ^c,d   Istefanopulos, Yorgo ^a  

^a BOGAZICI UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b HAMILTON COLLEGE   (United States)

^c Institute for Sensory Research   (United States)

^d Syracuse University   (United States)

Author keywords

Neural integration; P channel; Pacinian mechanoreceptors; Probability summation; Somatosensation; Tactile sensitivity

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MECHANORECEPTOR; MONKEY; PACINI CORPUSCLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOPHYSICS; SKIN; SOMATOSENSORY STIMULATION; SPATIAL SUMMATION; TACTILE DISCRIMINATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; VIBRATION SENSE;

CELL COUNT; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HAND; HUMANS; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MECHANORECEPTORS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NERVE FIBERS; NEURONS; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; ORIENTATION; PACINIAN CORPUSCLES; PROBABILITY; PSYCHOPHYSICS; SENSORY THRESHOLDS; SKIN; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; TOUCH; VIBRATION;

EID: 33644634105     PISSN: 08990220     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/08990220500262075     Document Type: Article

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