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The single cell recording techniques and psychophysical approach developed by Vernon Mountcastle have been employed in our laboratory to understand an important aspect of tactile sensation: the sense of motion on the skin. Although a variety of conventional objects including brushes, edges and moving gear wheels, have been used to demonstrate a host of feature detecting properties in cortical neurons, none of these stimuli have answered the basic question: how is motion encoded?
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Warren, S., Hämäläinen, H.A., Palmer, C.I., Gardner, E.P. (1991). Transformation of Spatio-temporal Information by Somatosensory Neural Networks. In: Franzén, O., Westman, J. (eds) Information Processing in the Somatosensory System. Wenner-Gren Center International Symposium Series. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-11597-6_23
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