ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2019
High-dimensional representation of texture in somatosensory cortex of primates.
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- The neural correlates of texture perception: A systematic review and activation likelihood estimation meta-analysis of functional magnetic resonance imaging studies.Brain and behavior · 2023Pooled it
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- Conveying tactile object characteristics through customized intracortical microstimulation of the human somatosensory cortex.Nature communications · 2025Article
- Tactile edges and motion via patterned microstimulation of the human somatosensory cortex.Science (New York, N.Y.) · 2025Article
- Towards Precise Synthetic Neural Codes: High-dimensional Stimulation with Flexible Electrodes.Npj flexible electronics · 2025Article
- Tactile exploration and imagery elicit distinct neural dynamics in the parietal cortical network.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2025Article
- Disentangling Temporal and Rate Codes in the Primate Somatosensory Cortex.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2024Article
- Restoration of sensory information via bionic hands.Nature biomedical engineering · 2023Review
- A Goldilocks theory of cognitive control: Balancing precision and efficiency with low-dimensional control states.Current opinion in neurobiology · 2022Review
- Roughness perception: A multisensory/crossmodal perspective.Attention, perception & psychophysics · 2022Review
- 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
- Texture is encoded in precise temporal spiking patterns in primate somatosensory cortex.Nature communications · 2022Article
- Frequency Shapes the Quality of Tactile Percepts Evoked through Electrical Stimulation of the Nerves.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2022Article
- Global surface features contribute to human haptic roughness estimations.Experimental brain research · 2022Article
- Perception and Appreciation of Tactile Objects: The Role of Visual Experience and Texture Parameters.Journal of perceptual imaging · 2022Article
- Sensory computations in the cuneate nucleus of macaques.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2021Article
- The neural mechanisms of manual dexterity.Nature reviews. Neuroscience · 2021Review
- Of mice and monkeys: Somatosensory processing in two prominent animal models.Progress in neurobiology · 2021Review
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Abstract
In the somatosensory nerves, the tactile perception of texture is driven by spatial and temporal patterns of activation distributed across three populations of afferents. These disparate streams of information must then be integrated centrally to achieve a unified percept of texture. To investigate the representation of texture in somatosensory cortex, we scanned a wide range of natural textures across the fingertips of rhesus macaques and recorded the responses evoked in Brodmann's areas 3b, 1, and 2. We found that texture identity is reliably encoded in the idiosyncratic responses of populations of cortical neurons, giving rise to a high-dimensional representation of texture. Cortical neurons fall along a continuum in their sensitivity to fine vs. coarse texture, and neurons at the extrema of this continuum seem to receive their major input from different afferent populations. Finally, we show that cortical responses can account for several aspects of texture perception in humans.
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