Category:Touch

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Editor: Prof. Tony J. Prescott, Dept Psychology, Univ of Sheffield, UK
Editor: Prof. Ehud Ahissar, Deaprtment of Neurobiology, The Weizmann Institute
Editor: Prof. Alan Wing, Centre for Sensory Motor Neuroscience, University of Birmingham, UK
Editor: Prof. David Kleinfeld, Physics Department, University of California at San Diego

The aim of the Scholarpedia Encyclopedia of Touch is to provide a comprehensive set of articles, written by leading researchers and peer-reviewed by fellow scientists, detailing the current scientific understanding of tactile sensing and its neural substrates in animals including man. For more information about articles in this category, including the table of contents, please see the Encyclopedia of Touch homepage.

Articles in category "Touch"

There are 81 articles in this category.

B Balance of excitation and inhibition Biomechanics of touch Body schema C Central touch disorders Cockroach antennae Cortical sensorimotor signal flow D Development of touch Dynamic touch E Emotional Touch Encyclopedia of touch F Fingertip transducers H Haptic exploration I Imaging human touch Invertebrate mechanoreception M Mammalian mechanoreception Mechanoreceptors and stochastic resonance Molecular basis of touch O Observed touch Orofacial touch P Painful touch Phantom touch Primate S1 cortex S S1 column reconstruction S1 comparative structure S1 connections versus currents S1 high-frequency activity S1 integration of position and contact

S cont. S1 laminar specialization S1 long-term plasticity S1 microcircuits S1 somatotopic maps Shape from touch Skin transducers Stick Insect Antennae T Tactile control of balance Tactile decision-making Tactile force Tactile grasp Tactile hair in Manatees Tactile illusions Tactile sensing in Arachnids Tactile sensing in monotremes Tactile sensing in the naked mole rat Tactile sensing in the octopus Tactile sensing in the star-nosed mole Tactile suppression Tactile temporal order Texture from touch Therapeutic touch Thermal touch Touch in aging Touch-vision integration V Vibrissa sensorimotor system Vibrissa mechanical properties Vibrissal afferents from trigeminus to cortices

V cont. Vibrissal basal ganglia circuits Vibrissal behavior and function Vibrissal brainstem loop functions Vibrissal brainstem microcircuits Vibrissal cerebellar loops Vibrissal coding in hippocampus Vibrissal cortices interconnectivity Vibrissal encoding by cortical spikes Vibrissal lemniscal circuits Vibrissal location decoding Vibrissal midbrain loops Vibrissal paralemniscal loops Vibrissal texture decoding Vibrissal thalamic circuits Vibrissal thalamic gating Vibrissal thalamic modes Vibrissal thalamocortical dynamics Vibrissal thalamocortical transformations Vibrissal touch in seals Vibrissal touch in the Etruscan shrew Visually-impaired touch W Whiskered robots Whisking control by motor cortex Whisking kinematics Whisking musculature Whisking pattern generation