ArticleeLife2021
High-resolution imaging of skin deformation shows that afferents from human fingertips signal slip onset.
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- Fast grip force adaptation to friction relies on localized fingerpad strains.Science advances · 2024Article
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- Biomechanics of the finger pad in response to torsion.Journal of the Royal Society, Interface · 2023Article
- Efficient tactile encoding of object slippage.Scientific reports · 2022Article
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- Temporally Local Tactile Codes Can Be Stored in Working Memory.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2022Article
- Initial contact shapes the perception of friction.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2021Article
- The neural mechanisms of manual dexterity.Nature reviews. Neuroscience · 2021Review
- High-resolution imaging of skin deformation shows that afferents from human fingertips signal slip onset.eLife · 2021Article
- Using Digital Image Correlation to Quantify Skin Deformation With Von Frey Monofilaments.IEEE transactions on hapticsArticle
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Abstract
Human tactile afferents provide essential feedback for grasp stability during dexterous object manipulation. Interacting forces between an object and the fingers induce slip events that are thought to provide information about grasp stability. To gain insight into this phenomenon, we made a transparent surface slip against a fixed fingerpad while monitoring skin deformation at the contact. Using microneurography, we simultaneously recorded the activity of single tactile afferents innervating the fingertips. This unique combination allowed us to describe how afferents respond to slip events and to relate their responses to surface deformations taking place inside their receptive fields. We found that all afferents were sensitive to slip events, but fast-adapting type I (FA-I) afferents in particular faithfully encoded compressive strain rates resulting from those slips. Given the high density of FA-I afferents in fingerpads, they are well suited to detect incipient slips and to provide essential information for the control of grip force during manipulation.
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