Somesthesis and the Neurobiology of the Somatosensory Cortex [Paperback]

Structural basis of information processing and neocortical neurotransmitters.- Divergence of thalamocortical projections and limits on somatosensory cortical plasticity.- Inhibitory circuitry in relation to the functional organization of somatosensory cortex.- Pain, temperature, and the sense of the body.- The functional role of a noninactivating sodium current in neocortical neurons.- Psychophysics of somatosensation.- Information processing channels in the sense of touch.- A novel approach for studying direction discrimination.- Tactile directional sensibility; theoretical and functional aspects.- Experimental assessment of the temporal hypothesis of velocity scaling.- Vibrotactile adaptation of the RA system: A psychophysical analysis.- Tactile neural codes for the shapes and orientations of objects.- Tactual discrimination of softness: Abilities and mechanisms.- Representation of the shape and contact force of handled objects in populations of cutaneous afferents.- Haptic object processing I: Early perceptual features.- Haptic object identification II: Purposive exploration.- Cortical representation of somatosensation.- The somatosensory cortex.- The organization of lateral somatosensory cortex in primates and other mammals.- Serial processing in the somatosensory system of macaques.- Parallel processing in somatosensory areas I and II of the cerebral cortex.- Linearity as the basic law of psychophysics: Evidence from studies of the neural mechanisms of roughness magnitude estimation.- Form processing and attention effects in the somatosensory system.- Functional plasticity of cortical representations of the hand.- Sensory-motor interface.- Somatosensory signals and sensorimotor transformations in reactive control of grasp.- Strain-sensitive mechanoreceptors in the human skin provide kinaesthetic information.- A second tactile system in the human skin with unmyelinated primary afferents.- Factors influencing the perception of tactile stimuli during movement.- Chl�