A simple model of mechanotransduction in primate glabrous skin

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 109, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 1350-1359

  Dong, Yi ^a,b   Mihalas, Stefan ^a   Kim, Sung Soo ^a,b,c   Yoshioka, Takashi ^a   Bensmaia, Sliman ^d   Niebur, Ernst ^a,b  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c Howard Hughes Medical Institutes   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Computational model; Expectation minimization; Integrate and fire neurons; Mechanoreceptive afferents; Pacinian afferents; Primate; RA; SA; Somatosensory perception

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ANALYTIC METHOD; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; GLABROUS SKIN; MECHANICAL STIMULATION; MECHANORECEPTOR; MECHANOTRANSDUCTION; NONHUMAN; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHESUS MONKEY; SENSORY NERVE; TACTILE STIMULATION;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; MACACA MULATTA; MECHANORECEPTORS; MECHANOTRANSDUCTION, CELLULAR; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; REACTION TIME; SENSORY THRESHOLDS; SKIN;

EID: 84874622051     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: 15221598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.00395.2012     Document Type: Article

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