Overview
Summarizes the nascent field of research in CT afferents, a nontraditional field of study in contrast to the widely focused research on touch's more tractable discriminative and haptic properties
Focuses on the role of CT afferents in relation to coding tactile sensation and affective neuroscience
One-of-a-kind multidisciplinary overview on the current research of CT afferents, spanning from the micro level (genes) to the macro level (social interactions)
Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Table of contents (24 chapters)
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Front Matter
Keywords
About this book
Reviews
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Johan Wessberg is Professor in Neurophysiology at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden. He obtained his PhD in physiology under the supervision of Prof. Ake Vallbo, with a thesis on human hand motor control and proprioception. He then worked as a Research Associate at the lab of Prof. Miguel Nicolelis at Duke University, USA, pioneering work on brain-machine interfaces in monkeys. Currently, his research focuses on the human sense of touch, neural interfaces, and prosthetic touch. He combines single afferent recording using microneurography, psychophysics, and brain imaging using fMRI, EEG and MEG.
India Morrison is a senior lecturer at Linköping University, Sweden. Her research interests include the mechanisms of the central nervous system in relation to pain as well as human affective touch. Her area of expertise is concentrated within human brain processing and functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI).
Francis McGlone is Professor in Neuroscience at Liverpool John Moores University and Visiting Professor at the University of Liverpool. He obtained his BSc in Neurobiology and PhD in sensory neuroscience from the University of Sussex, and has maintained a research career in many aspects of somatosensation, working in academia and industry. He has over 120 publications spanning single unit properties of somatosensory afferents recorded with microneurography out to cortical mapping of somatosensory stimulation using ultra-high field fMRI. He is a founder member of the International Association for the Study of Affective Touch.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Affective Touch and the Neurophysiology of CT Afferents
Editors: Håkan Olausson, Johan Wessberg, India Morrison, Francis McGlone
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-6418-5
Publisher: Springer New York, NY
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media New York 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4939-6416-1Published: 15 October 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4939-8193-9Published: 27 June 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4939-6418-5Published: 14 October 2016
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 430
Number of Illustrations: 37 b/w illustrations, 56 illustrations in colour
Topics: Neurosciences, Neurobiology, Cognitive Psychology