Preface

Contributors

Factors Affecting Direction Discrimination of Moving Tactile Stimuli

G.K. Essick

Extracting the Shape of an Object from the Responses of Peripheral Nerve Fibers

A.W. Goodwin

The Signalling of Touch, Finger Movements and Manipulation Forces by Mechanoreceptors in Human Skin

V.G. Macefield

Similarities Between Touch and Vision

S.S. Hsiao

Functional Organization of the Somatosensory Cortex in the Primate

A.B. Turman

J.W. Morley

M.J. Rowe

Representation of Tactile Functions in the Somatosensory Cortex

Y. Iwamura

Processing of Somesthetic Stimuli in Primate Sensory-motor Cortex

R. Romo

A. Zainos

H. Merchant

A. Hernandez

W. Garcia

Constancy in the Somatosensory System: Central Neural Mechanisms Underlying the Appreciation of Texture During Active Touch.

C.E. Chapman

Short-term Plasticity in Adult Somatosensory Cortex

M.B. Calford

J.C. Clarey

R. Tweedale

Subject index