Tactile sensory system: Encoding from the periphery to the cortex

Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Systems Biology and Medicine

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 279-287

  Jones, Lynette A ^a   Smith, Allan M ^b  

^a Massachusetts Institute of Technology   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN CELL; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN FUNCTION; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGICAL PROCEDURES; GLABROUS SKIN; HUMAN; MECHANORECEPTOR; MERKEL CELL; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PACINI CORPUSCLE; PSYCHOPHYSICS; RECEPTIVE FIELD; RECEPTOR POTENTIAL; SENSORIMOTOR FUNCTION; SENSORY RECEPTOR; SKIN RECEPTOR; TOUCH; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; METABOLISM; SKIN; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX;

HUMANS; MECHANORECEPTORS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; SKIN; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; TOUCH;

EID: 84898793740     PISSN: 19395094     EISSN: 1939005X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/wsbm.1267     Document Type: Article

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