Trial reportJournal of the Royal Society, Interface2014
Dynamics of fingertip contact during the onset of tangential slip.
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39 citing papers in PubMed.
- Fingerpad contact evolution under electrovibration.Journal of the Royal Society, Interface · 2019Trial
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- Tactile sensation and attractiveness of hair bundles in the combing process.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Fingertip viscoelasticity enables human tactile neurons to encode loading history alongside current force.eLife · 2025Article
- Fast grip force adaptation to friction relies on localized fingerpad strains.Science advances · 2024Article
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- A haptic illusion created by gravity.iScience · 2023Article
- How Tactile Afferents in the Human Fingerpad Encode Tangential Torques Associated with Manipulation: Are Monkeys Better than Us?The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2023Article
- Biomechanics of the finger pad in response to torsion.Journal of the Royal Society, Interface · 2023Article
- Encouraging and Detecting Preferential Incipient Slip for Use in Slip Prevention in Robot-Assisted Surgery.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
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- Temporally Local Tactile Codes Can Be Stored in Working Memory.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2022Article
- Neurophysiology of slip sensation and grip reaction: insights for hand prosthesis control of slippage.Journal of neurophysiology · 2021Review
- Human low-threshold mechanoafferent responses to pure changes in friction controlled using an ultrasonic haptic device.Scientific reports · 2021Article
- High-resolution imaging of skin deformation shows that afferents from human fingertips signal slip onset.eLife · 2021Article
- Sensory information from a slipping object elicits a rapid and automatic shoulder response.Journal of neurophysiology · 2020Article
- Identifying 3-D spatiotemporal skin deformation cues evoked in interacting with compliant elastic surfaces.IEEE Haptics Symposium : [proceedings]. IEEE Haptics Symposium · 2020Article
- The influence of visual and haptic material information on early grasping force.Royal Society open science · 2019Article
- Complexity, rate, and scale in sliding friction dynamics between a finger and textured surface.Scientific reports · 2018Article
- Perception of partial slips under tangential loading of the fingertip.Scientific reports · 2018Article
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Abstract
Through highly precise perceptual and sensorimotor activities, the human tactile system continuously acquires information about the environment. Mechanical interactions between the skin at the point of contact and a touched surface serve as the source of this tactile information. Using a dedicated custom robotic platform, we imaged skin deformation at the contact area between the finger and a flat surface during the onset of tangential sliding movements in four different directions (proximal, distal, radial and ulnar) and with varying normal force and tangential speeds. This simple tactile event evidenced complex mechanics. We observed a reduction of the contact area while increasing the tangential force and proposed to explain this phenomenon by nonlinear stiffening of the skin. The deformation's shape and amplitude were highly dependent on stimulation direction. We conclude that the complex, but highly patterned and reproducible, deformations measured in this study are a potential source of information for the central nervous system and that further mechanical measurement are needed to better understand tactile perceptual and motor performances.
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