Texture is a central component of touch. To learn how contact with a surface gives rise to a sensation of texture, many laboratories have examined the vibrissae system of rodents—a highly efficient sensory system with well-studied structural organization [by Kleinfeld et al. (Current Opinion in Neurobiology 16(4): 435–444, 2006)]. Vibrissal texture decoding summarizes current knowledge about how whisking on surfaces leads to texture sensation. The vibrissae system of rats presents a unique opportunity for investigating how sensory receptors generate signals through their interaction with the environment, and how the brain reads and interprets the afferent signals.

Vibrissal texture decoding / Arabzadeh, E.; von Heimendzahl, M.; Diamond, Mathew Ernest. - III:(2016), pp. 737-749. [10.2991/978-94-6239-133-8_54]

Vibrissal texture decoding

Diamond, Mathew Ernest
2016-01-01

Abstract

Texture is a central component of touch. To learn how contact with a surface gives rise to a sensation of texture, many laboratories have examined the vibrissae system of rodents—a highly efficient sensory system with well-studied structural organization [by Kleinfeld et al. (Current Opinion in Neurobiology 16(4): 435–444, 2006)]. Vibrissal texture decoding summarizes current knowledge about how whisking on surfaces leads to texture sensation. The vibrissae system of rats presents a unique opportunity for investigating how sensory receptors generate signals through their interaction with the environment, and how the brain reads and interprets the afferent signals.
2016
III
Scholarpedia of touch
737
749
http://dx.doi.org/10.2991/978-94-6239-133-8
http://www.scholarpedia.org/article/Vibrissal_texture_decoding
Arabzadeh, E.; von Heimendzahl, M.; Diamond, Mathew Ernest
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