Optimizing populations of SAI tactile mechanoreceptors to enable activities of daily living

2011 IEEE World Haptics Conference, WHC 2011

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 53-58

  Rivest, Isabelle I ^a   Gerling, Gregory J ^a  

^a University of Virginia   (United States)

Author keywords

biomechanics; finite element analysis; leaky integrate and fire; mechanoreceptor; neural dynamics; neural prosthetics; psychophysics; solid mechanics; Tactile; touch

Indexed keywords

LEAKY-INTEGRATE-AND-FIRE; MECHANORECEPTORS; NEURAL DYNAMICS; NEURAL PROSTHETIC; PSYCHOPHYSICS; SOLID MECHANICS; TACTILE; TOUCH;

BIOMECHANICS; BRAIN; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; SENSORS; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

POPULATION STATISTICS;

EID: 79961186377     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/WHC.2011.5945461     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (19)

1. J.K. Chapin, K.A. Moxon, R.S. Markowitz, and M.A.L. Nicolelis, "Real-time control of a robot arm using simultaneously recorded neurons in the motor cortex," Nature Neuroscience, vol. 2, Jul. 1999, pp. 664-670.
2. L.R. Hochberg, M.D. Serruya, G.M. Friehs, J.A. Mukand, M. Saleh, A.H. Caplan, A. Branner, D. Chen, R.D. Penn, and J.P. Donoghue, "Neuronal ensemble control of prosthetic devices by a human with tetraplegia," Nature, vol. 442, Jul. 2006, pp. 164-171.
3. G.S. Dhillon and K.W. Horch, "Direct neural sensory feedback and control of a prosthetic arm," IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering, vol. 13, Dec. 2005, pp. 468-472.
4. S. Katz, A.B. Ford, R.W. Moskowitz, B.A. Jackson, and M.W. Jaffe, "Studies of Illness in the Aged; The Index of ADL: A Standardized Measure for Biological and Psychosocial Function," Journal of the American Medical Association, vol. 185, Sep. 1963, pp. 914-919.
5. K.O. Johnson and J.R. Phillips, "Tactile Spatial Resolution. I. Two-Point Discrimination, Gap Detection, Grating Resolution, and Letter Recognition," Journal of Neurophysiology, vol. 46, 1981, p. 1177.
6. A.P. Sripati, S.J. Bensmaia, and K.O. Johnson, "A continuum mechanical model of mechanoreceptive afferent responses to indented spatial patterns," Journal of Neurophysiology, vol. 95, Jun. 2006, pp. 3852-3864.
7. K. Dandekar, B.I. Raju, and M.A. Srinivasan, "3-D finite-element models of human and monkey fingertips to investigate the mechanics of tactile sense," Journal of Biomechanical Engineering-Transactions of the ASME, vol. 125, Oct. 2003, pp. 682-691.
8. M.A. Srinivasan and K. Dandekar, "An investigation of the mechanics of tactile sense using two-dimensional models of the primate fingertip," Journal of Biomechanical Engineering-Transactions of the ASME, vol. 118, Feb. 1996, pp. 48-55.
9. A.W. Freeman and K.O. Johnson, "A Model Accounting for Effects of Vibratory Amplitude on Responses of Cutaneous Mechanoreceptors in Macaque Monkey," Journal of Physiology-London, vol. 323, 1982, pp. 43-64.
10. S. Bensmaia, "A transduction model of the Meissner corpuscle," Mathematical Biosciences, vol. 176, Apr. 2002, pp. 203-217.
11. F. Looft, "Response of Monkey Glabrous Skin Mechanoreceptors to Random Noise Sequences: II. Dynamic Stimulus State Analysis," Somatosensory and Motor Research, vol. 13, 1996, pp. 11-28.
12. H. Wheat and A. Goodwin, "Tactile discrimination of edge shape: limits on spatial resolution imposed by parameters of the peripheral neural population," Journal of Neuroscience, vol. 21, 2001, pp. 7751-7763.
13. V.B. Mountcastle and T.P. Powell, "Neural mechanisms subserving cutaneous sensibility, with special reference to the role of afferent inhibition in sensory perception and discrimination," Bull Johns Hopkins Hosp., vol. 105, Oct. 1959, pp. 201-32.
14. K.O. Johnson, "Reconstruction of population response to a vibratory stimulus in quickly adapting mechanoreceptive afferent fiber population innervating glabrous skin of the monkey," Journal of Neurophysiology, vol. 37, 1974, pp. 48-72.
15. B. Guclu and S.J. Bolanowski, "Modeling population responses of rapidly-adapting mechanoreceptive fibers," Journal of Computational Neuroscience, vol. 12, Apr. 2002, pp. 201-218.
16. A.W. Goodwin, A.S. Browning, and H.E. Wheat, "Representation of curved surfaces in responses of mechanoreceptive afferent fibers innervating the monkey's fingerpad," Journal of Neuroscience, vol. 15, Jan. 1995, pp. 798-810.
17. A.W. Goodwin and H.E. Wheat, "Effects of nonuniform fiber sensitivity, innervation geometry, and noise on information relayed by a population of slowly adapting type I primary afferents from the fingerpad," The Journal of Neuroscience, vol. 19, 1999, pp. 8057-8070.
18. I. Rivest and G.J. Gerling, "Evaluating populations of tactile sensors for curvature discrimination," Proceedings of the 2010 IEEE Haptic Interfaces for Virtual Environment and Teleoperator Systems, Boston, MA: 2010, pp. 59-62.
19. J.R. Phillips and K.O. Johnson, "Tactile Spatial Resolution. II. Neural Representation of Bars, Edges, and Gratings in Monkey Primary Afferents," Journal of Neurophysiology, vol. 46, 1981, pp. 1192-1203.