Tactile spatial resolution. I. Two-point discrimination, gap detection, grating resolution, and letter recognition
- 1 December 1981
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physiological Society in Journal of Neurophysiology
- Vol. 46 (6) , 1177-1192
- https://doi.org/10.1152/jn.1981.46.6.1177
Abstract
An investigation of the spatial neural mechanisms underlying tactile sensation in humans is reported. The investigation required specification of the discrimination behavior that depends strictly on spatial neural mechanisms. The results of 4 experimental designs are reported, based on the spatial information in the neural discharge patterns rather than on intensive or temporal information.This publication has 10 references indexed in Scilit:
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