Sensory functions of the skin of humans
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Sensory functions of the skin of humans
Plenum Press, c1979
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"Proceedings of the Second International Symposium on Skin Senses, held at Florida State University, Tallahassee ... June 5-7, 1978."
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Description
This volume represents the Proceedings of the Second Inter- national Symposium on Skin Senses held on the campus of Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida. The symposium was held on June 5 through 7, 1978, in honor of Professor Yngve Zotterrnan to commemorate his 80th birthday and his more than 50 years of energetic involvement in physiological and psychophysical prob- lems of cutaneous, gustatory, and olfactory sensitivities. The First International Symposium on Skin Senses was in- tended to stimulate dialogues between electrophysiologists and psychophysicists in order to examine the mechanisms of cutaneous sensitivity by way of a mUlti-disciplinary approach. The 12 years since that meeting has seen much progress in the morphology, electrophysiology, and taxonomy of cutaneous receptors. There has been a growing awareness among psychophysicists that, not only are psychometric threshold functions of importance, but descriptions of the growth of sensations to suprathreshold stimuli are of at least equal importance.
One of the most exciting recent events has been the development of a technique that permits recording activity in single primary afferent nerve fibers by poking a microelectrode through the skin into a nerve bundle--microneurography. This development allows one to conduct psychophysical measurements of sensation and, at the same time, to sample the primary neural activity associated with the same stimuli. The aim of this symposium was to bring to- gether psychophysicists and microneurographers in order to explore the power and the limitations of such an approach when applied to the cutaneous senses.
Table of Contents
Welcoming Address.- How it Started: A Personal Review.- Psychophysical and Neurophysiological Methods to Study Patients with Sensory Disturbances.- Precision and Ambiguity in Coding Vibrotactile Information.- Cues Supporting Recognition of the Orientation or Direction of Movement of Tactile Stimuli.- The Coding of Direction of Tactile Stimulus Movement: Correlative Psychophysical and Electrophysiological Data.- Somatosensory Potentials in Humans Evoked by Both Mechanical Stimulation of the Skin and Electrical Stimulation of the Nerve.- Tactile Afferent Units with Small and Well Demarcated Receptive Fields in the Glabrous Skin Area of the Human Hand.- Psychophysical Measurements of Enhancement, Suppression, and Surface Gradient Effects in Vibrotaction.- Vibrotactile Frequency Characteristics as Determined by Adaptation and Masking Procedures.- Thermo-Tactile Interactions: Some Influences of Temperature on Touch.- Thermo-Tactile Interactions: Effects of Touch on Thermal Localization.- The Neural Basis of the Sensory Quality of Warmth.- Problems of Correlating Cutaneous Sensation with Neural Events in Man.- Touch and Thermal Sensations: Psychophysical Observations and Unit Activity in Human Skin.- Coincidence and Cause: A Discussion on Correlations Between Activity in Primary Afferents and Perceptive Experience in Cutaneous Sensibility.- Activity in C Nociceptors and Sensation.- Intensive and Temporal Determinants of Thermal Pain.- Average Evoked Potentials and Sensory Experience.- Burning and Second Pain: An Alternative Interpretation.- General Discussion.- Contributors and Invited Participants.- Author Index.
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