Coding and use of tactile signals from the fingertips in object manipulation tasks

Nature Reviews Neuroscience

Volumn 10, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 345-359

  Johansson, Roland S ^a   Flanagan, J Randall ^b  

^a UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FINGER; GRIP STRENGTH; HUMAN; OBJECT MANIPULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPRIOCEPTION; REVIEW; SENSORIMOTOR FUNCTION; SENSORY EVALUATION; SENSORY NERVE; SKIN SENSATION; SOMATOSENSORY SYSTEM; TACTILE STIMULATION; TASK PERFORMANCE;

AFFERENT PATHWAYS; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; FINGERS; HAND STRENGTH; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NEURONS, AFFERENT; PHYSICAL STIMULATION; PROPRIOCEPTION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; TOUCH;

DUDLEYA EDULIS;

EID: 67349146792     PISSN: 1471003X     EISSN: 14710048     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrn2621     Document Type: Review

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