ArticleCerebral cortex (New York, N.Y. : 1991)2020
Emergence of an Invariant Representation of Texture in Primate Somatosensory Cortex.
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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
- Speed constant material perception via touch relies on natural material statistics.Perception · 2026Article
- Emergence of a contrast-invariant representation of naturalistic texture in macaque visual cortex.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025Article
- Emergence of a contrast-invariant representation of naturalistic texture in macaque visual cortex.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025Article
- Training-Free Regulation of Grasping by Intracortical Tactile Feedback Designed via S1-M1 Communication.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 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
- Reliability and stability of tactile perception in the whisker somatosensory system.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2024Article
- Texture is encoded in precise temporal spiking patterns in primate somatosensory cortex.Nature communications · 2022Article
- Global surface features contribute to human haptic roughness estimations.Experimental brain research · 2022Article
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- Skin and Mechanoreceptor Contribution to Tactile Input for Perception: A Review of Simulation Models.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2022Review
- Sensory computations in the cuneate nucleus of macaques.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2021Article
- An Emergent Population Code in Primary Auditory Cortex Supports Selective Attention to Spectral and Temporal Sound Features.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2021Article
- Of mice and monkeys: Somatosensory processing in two prominent animal models.Progress in neurobiology · 2021Review
- Information about contact force and surface texture is mixed in the firing rates of cutaneous afferent neurons.Journal of neurophysiology · 2021Article
- Effect of scanning speed on texture-elicited vibrations.Journal of the Royal Society, Interface · 2020Article
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Abstract
A major function of sensory processing is to achieve neural representations of objects that are stable across changes in context and perspective. Small changes in exploratory behavior can lead to large changes in signals at the sensory periphery, thus resulting in ambiguous neural representations of objects. Overcoming this ambiguity is a hallmark of human object recognition across sensory modalities. Here, we investigate how the perception of tactile texture remains stable across exploratory movements of the hand, including changes in scanning speed, despite the concomitant changes in afferent responses. To this end, we scanned a wide range of everyday textures across the fingertips of rhesus macaques at multiple speeds and recorded the responses evoked in tactile nerve fibers and somatosensory cortical neurons (from Brodmann areas 3b, 1, and 2). We found that individual cortical neurons exhibit a wider range of speed-sensitivities than do nerve fibers. The resulting representations of speed and texture in cortex are more independent than are their counterparts in the nerve and account for speed-invariant perception of texture. We demonstrate that this separation of speed and texture information is a natural consequence of previously described cortical computations.
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