Author: Dale Gregory FerringtonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cats
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
Neural Mechanisms in Tactile Sensation
Author: Dale Gregory FerringtonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cats
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
Neural Aspects of Tactile Sensation
Author: J.W. MorleyPublisher: Elsevier
ISBN: 0080537359
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 367
Book Description
The world within reach is characterised to a large extent by our ability to sense objects through touch. Research into the sensation of touch has a long history. However, it is only relatively recently that significant advances have been made in understanding how information about objects we touch is represented in both the peripheral and central divisions of the nervous systems. This volume draws together the increasing body of knowledge regarding the mechanisms underlying tactile sensation and how they relate to tactile perception.Individual chapters address; the response of mechanoreceptors to stimuli (including movement and shape), the role of the somatosensory cortex in processing tactile information, the psychophysics and neurophysiology of the detection and categorisation of somesthetic stimuli, perceptual constancy, recent findings in regard to short term and long term plasticity in the somatosensory cortex and the psychophysical correlates of this plasticity, and parallel versus serial information processing in the cortex.The authors look at past and current research, and comment on the direction of future investigation, relating findings from psychophysical studies of tactile behavior to our growing understanding of the underlying neural mechanisms.
The Sensory Hand
Author: Vernon B. MountcastlePublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674019744
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 648
Book Description
Vernon Mountcastle has devoted his career to studying the neurophysiology of sensation in the hand. In The Sensory Hand he provides an astonishingly comprehensive account of the neural underpinnings of the rich and complex tactile experiences evoked by stimulation of the hand.
Trigeminal Neural Mechanisms of Facial Tactile Sensation
Author: Mark Joseph RoweNeurobiology of Sensation and Reward
Author: Jay A. GottfriedPublisher: CRC Press
ISBN: 142006729X
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 458
Book Description
Synthesizing coverage of sensation and reward into a comprehensive systems overview, Neurobiology of Sensation and Reward presents a cutting-edge and multidisciplinary approach to the interplay of sensory and reward processing in the brain. While over the past 70 years these areas have drifted apart, this book makes a case for reuniting sensation a
Somatosensory Processing
Author: Mark RowePublisher: CRC Press
ISBN: 0203303636
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
The diversity of contemporary investigative approaches included in this volume provides an exciting account of our current understanding of brain mechanisms responsible for sensory and perceptual experience in the areas of touch, kinesthesia, and pain. Postgraduate research students in sensory physiology, neurology, psychology and anatomy, and researchers themselves will find that this volume addresses many of the key issues in our attempts to understand the neural mechanisms that mediate sensory experience arising from the body as a whole, the so-called somatic senses, in particular for touch and pain. The volume provides a record of the occasion of the St Petersburg IUPS symposium, chaired by the editors of this volume, and includes some added recent contributions from other leading international figures in the field. Brought together under the sponsoring banner of the IUPS Commission for Somatosensory Physiology and Pain, these scientists with their different experimental approaches seek collectively to understand the brain mechanisms that underlie our own nature and experience.
Brain Mechanisms in Sensory Substitution
Author: Paul Bach-y-RitaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
Neuromorphic Olfaction
Author: Krishna C. PersaudPublisher: CRC Press
ISBN: 1439871728
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 237
Book Description
Many advances have been made in the last decade in the understanding of the computational principles underlying olfactory system functioning. Neuromorphic Olfaction is a collaboration among European researchers who, through NEUROCHEM (Fp7-Grant Agreement Number 216916)-a challenging and innovative European-funded project-introduce novel computing p
Information Processing in the Somatosensory System
Author: Ove FranzénPublisher:
ISBN: 9780333524930
Category : Human information processing
Languages : en
Pages : 467
Book Description
The theme of this collection of works is the study of the neural mechanisms of tactile perception, that is to say, the neural representation of the external world relayed through the somatosensory system.
Neural Mechanisms in Taste
Author: Robert H. CaganPublisher: CRC Press
ISBN: 9780849358340
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
The purpose of NEURAL MECHANISM in TASTE is to emphasize physiological principles and reveal new insights of this most recent research. This book is aimed to reach scientists within the broad area of neurophysiology as well as those in other disciplines who have interests in sensory mechanisms. The focus is on two major themes--peripheral mechanisms and neural processing at the central level. Every chapter is written by an expert on the subject matter, including definitive updates on the status of each topic. This work is not only useful to researchers in taste, but also to basic and applied scientists in related fields (such as food technology), doctoral and postdoctoral students.