Intraneural stimulation elicits discrimination of textural features by artificial fingertip in intact and amputee humans

eLife

Volumn 5, Issue MARCH2016, 2016, Pages

  Oddo, Calogero Maria ^a   Raspopovic, Stanisa ^a,b   Artoni, Fiorenzo ^a,b   Mazzoni, Alberto ^a   Spigler, Giacomo ^a   Petrini, Francesco ^b,c,d   Giambattistelli, Federica ^c   Vecchio, Fabrizio ^d   Miraglia, Francesca ^d   Zollo, Loredana ^c   Di Pino, Giovanni ^c   Camboni, Domenico ^a   Carrozza, Maria Chiara ^a   Guglielmelli, Eugenio ^c   Rossini, Paolo Maria ^d,e   Faraguna, Ugo ^f,g,h   Micera, Silvestro ^a,b  

^a SCUOLA SUPERIORE SANT ANNA   (Italy)

^b EPFL   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY CAMPUS BIO MEDICO   (Italy)

^d IRCCS SAN RAFFAELE PISANA   (Italy)

^e CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

^f UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF PISA   (Italy)

^g DEPARTMENT OF DEVELOPMENTAL NEUROSCIENCE   (Italy)

^h UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CASE REPORT; DISABLED PERSON; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; HUMAN; MEDIAN NERVE; MODEL; SPIKE; TACTILE STIMULATION; TOPOGRAPHY; AMPUTEE; ARTIFICIAL ORGAN; ELECTROSTIMULATION; PHYSICAL STIMULATION; PROSTHESES AND ORTHOSES; TOUCH;

AMPUTEES; ARTIFICIAL ORGANS; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; HUMANS; PHYSICAL STIMULATION; PROSTHESES AND IMPLANTS; TOUCH;

EID: 84962286170     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2050084X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7554/eLife.09148     Document Type: Article

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