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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Information-processing channels in the tactile sensory system
    sub title: a psychophysical and physiological analysis
  name:
    name part: Gescheider, George A.
    role:
      role term: creator
  name:
    name part: Wright, John H.
    name part: 1938-
  name:
    name part: Verrillo, Ronald T.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2009
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: ix, 135 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
  table of contents: Channels in touch -- Identification of specific neural systems responsible for mechanoreception -- Duplex model of mechanoreception -- Spatial and temporal summation in the P system -- The neural bases of the tactile systems -- Anatomy of tactile receptors -- Neurophysiology of tactile receptors and their nerve fibers -- Neural bases of the P and NP systems -- Four neural systems mediate the detection of vibratory stimuli -- Frequency selectivity of a neural system is determined by its receptors -- From neural systems to information-processing channels -- Sensation-magnitude enhancement occurs within but not across channels -- Multichannel model of tactile sensitivity -- The psychophysical tuning curve -- Testing the multichannel model through experiments on adaptation and masking -- Adaptation reveals the existence of tactile channels -- Masking occurs within but not across channels -- Testing the multichannel model through experiments on sensory learning -- Properties of tactile channels -- The frequency selectivity of channels -- Temporal summation and temporal acuity -- Spatial acuity -- Edge detection -- Spatial summation -- Effects of observer characteristics -- Effects of aging on the sensitivity of tactile channels -- Effects of the menstrual cycle -- The functional roles of channels -- Channels enhance the detectability of stimuli -- Channels enhance the discriminability of stimuli -- The functional roles of the individual tactile channels -- The decibel scale -- The functional role of the PC channel -- The functional role of the RA channel -- The functional role of the SA I channel -- The functional role of the SA II channel -- Specialization of channels -- Channel interactions -- Summation of sensation magnitude across channels -- The perception of texture -- Role of attention in the enhancement and summation of sensation magnitude -- Interactions between tactile channels and other somatosensory submodalities.
  note: George A. Gescheider, John H. Wright, Ronald T. Verrillo.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 113-124) and indexes.
  subject:
    topic: Touch
  subject:
    topic: Touch
  subject:
    topic: Touch Perception
  subject:
    topic: Mechanoreceptors
  classification: QP451 .G47 2009
  classification: 612.8/8
  classification: WR 102 G389i 2009
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Scientific psychology series
  identifier: 9781841698960 (hardcover : alk. paper)
  identifier: 1841698962 (hardcover : alk. paper)
  identifier: 2008043780
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 081022
    record change date: 20191204153425.0
    record identifier: in00004510765