Information-processing channels in the tactile sensory system
Subtitle: a psychophysical and physiological analysis
By: George A. Gescheider, John H. Wright.
Contributors: Wright, John H., 1938-
Series: Scientific psychology series
Publisher: Psychology Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781841698960
Subjects: Touch
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Channels in touch; title: Identification of specific neural syste MS; title: Responsible for mech anoreception; title: Duplex model of mechanoreception; title: Spatial and temporal summation in the P system; title: The neural bases of the tactile systems; title: Anatomy of tactile receptors; title: Neurophysiology of tactile receptors and their nerve fibers; title: Neural bases of the P and NP systems; title: Neural systems mediate the detection of vibratory stimuli; title: Frequency selectivity of a neural system is determined by its receptors; title: From neural systems to information-processing channels; title: Sensation-magnitude enhancement occurs within but not across channels; title: Multichannel model of tactile sensitivity; title: The psychophysical tuning curve; title: Testing the multichannel model through experiments on adaptation and masking; title: Adaptation reveals the existence of tactile channels; title: Masking occurs within but not across channels; title: Testing the multichannel model through experiments on sensory learning properties of tactile channels; title: The frequency selectivity of channels; title: Temporal summation and temporal acuity; title: Spatial acuity; title: Edge detection; title: Spatial summation; title: Effects of observer characteristics; title: Effects of aging on the sensitivity of tactile channels; title: Effects of the menstrual cycle; title: The function AL roles of channels; title: Channels enhance the detectability of stimuli; title: Channels enhance the discriminability of stimuli; title: The functional roles of the individual tactile channels; title: The decibel scale; title: The functional role of the PC channel; title: The functional role of the ra channel; title: The functional role of the SA I channel; title: The functional role of the SA II channel; title: Specialization of channels; title: Channel interactions; title: Summation of sensation magnitude across channels; title: The perception of texture; title: Role of attention in the enhancement and summation of sensation magnitude; title: Interactions between tactile channels and other somatosensory submodalities.