ReviewCurrent opinion in neurobiology2016
Importance of spike timing in touch: an analogy with hearing?
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- Mind the gap: the temporal discrimination threshold of tactile sensation from implanted peripheral nerve stimulation.Journal of neuroengineering and rehabilitation · 2026Trial
- Speed constant material perception via touch relies on natural material statistics.Perception · 2026Article
- Simultaneous encoding of sensory features: the role of multiplexing and noise in tactile perception and neural representation.Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society · 2026Review
- Bio-Inspired spiking tactile sensing system for robust texture recognition across varying scanning speeds in passive touch.Biological cybernetics · 2025Article
- Encoding of Vibrotactile Stimuli by Mechanoreceptors in Rodent Glabrous Skin.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2024Article
- Enhanced neural phase locking through audio-tactile stimulation.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2024Article
- Exploring retinal ganglion cells encoding to multi-modal stimulation using 3D microelectrodes arrays.Frontiers in bioengineering and biotechnology · 2023Article
- Physiological noise facilitates multiplexed coding of vibrotactile-like signals in somatosensory cortex.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2022Article
- The spatial profile of skin indentation shapes tactile perception across stimulus frequencies.Scientific reports · 2022Article
- The burst gap is a peripheral temporal code for pitch perception that is shared across audition and touch.Scientific reports · 2022Article
- Artificial SA-I, RA-I and RA-II/vibrotactile afferents for tactile sensing of texture.Journal of the Royal Society, Interface · 2022Article
- Neural readout of a latency code in the active electrosensory system.Cell reports · 2022Article
- Texture is encoded in precise temporal spiking patterns in primate somatosensory cortex.Nature communications · 2022Article
- Auditory clicks elicit equivalent temporal frequency perception to tactile pulses: A cross-modal psychophysical study.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2022Article
- Perceptual rivalry with vibrotactile stimuli.Attention, perception & psychophysics · 2021Article
- Slowly activating outward membrane currents generate input-output sub-harmonic cross frequency coupling in neurons.Journal of theoretical biology · 2021Article
- Theoretical Relationship Between Two Measures of Spike Synchrony: Correlation Index and Vector Strength.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2021Article
- A comprehensive model-based framework for optimal design of biomimetic patterns of electrical stimulation for prosthetic sensation.Journal of neural engineering · 2020Article
- Auditory and tactile frequency representations are co-embedded in modality-defined cortical sensory systems.NeuroImage · 2020Article
- Introduction of a New In-Situ Measurement System for the Study of Touch-Feel Relevant Surface Properties.Polymers · 2020Article
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Abstract
Touch is often conceived as a spatial sense akin to vision. However, touch also involves the transduction and processing of signals that vary rapidly over time, inviting comparisons with hearing. In both sensory systems, first order afferents produce spiking responses that are temporally precise and the timing of their responses carries stimulus information. The precision and informativeness of spike timing in the two systems invites the possibility that both implement similar mechanisms to extract behaviorally relevant information from these precisely timed responses. Here, we explore the putative roles of spike timing in touch and hearing and discuss common mechanisms that may be involved in processing temporal spiking patterns.
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