ArticleNature communications2021
A common computational principle for vibrotactile pitch perception in mouse and human.
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- How to determine hands' vibration perception thresholds - a systematic review.Behavior research methods · 2024Pooled it
- Self-Driven Hybrid Piezomagnetic-Iontronic Mechanoreceptors for Bimodal SA/RA Perception and Tactile Synthesis.Small (Weinheim an der Bergstrasse, Germany) · 2026Article
- Vibration perception threshold assessments: Comparing the Staircase and von Békésy methods.Attention, perception & psychophysics · 2026Article
- Continuous Vibration-Driven Virtual Tactile Motion Perception Across Fingertips.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Lamellar Schwann cells in the Pacinian corpuscle potentiate vibration perception.Science advances · 2025Article
- Emergence of a brainstem somatosensory tonotopic map for substrate vibration.Nature neuroscience · 2025Article
- Survey of temporal coding of sensory information.Frontiers in computational 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
- Enhanced neural phase locking through audio-tactile stimulation.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2024Article
- A novel task to investigate vibrotactile detection in mice.PloS one · 2023Article
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- 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
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Abstract
We live surrounded by vibrations generated by moving objects. These oscillatory stimuli propagate through solid substrates, are sensed by mechanoreceptors in our body and give rise to perceptual attributes such as vibrotactile pitch (i.e. the perception of how high or low a vibration's frequency is). Here, we establish a mechanistic relationship between vibrotactile pitch perception and the physical properties of vibrations using behavioral tasks, in which vibratory stimuli were delivered to the human fingertip or the mouse forelimb. The resulting perceptual reports were analyzed with a model demonstrating that physically different combinations of vibration frequencies and amplitudes can produce equal pitch perception. We found that the perceptually indistinguishable but physically different stimuli follow a common computational principle in mouse and human. It dictates that vibrotactile pitch perception is shifted with increases in amplitude toward the frequency of highest vibrotactile sensitivity. These findings suggest the existence of a fundamental relationship between the seemingly unrelated concepts of spectral sensitivity and pitch perception.
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