Overview
- Provides the current scientific understanding of tactile sensing and its neural substrates in animals including man
- Reference work for researchers in neuroscience, haptics, tactile perception, robotics, psychology and biology
- First volume of new encyclopedia comprising multiple scientific disciplines, written and curated by top scientists, including Nobel laureates and Field medalists
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Scholarpedia (SCHP)
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Table of contents (62 chapters)
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Front Matter
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The Psychology of Touch
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Front Matter
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Keywords
About this book
Scholarpedia’s Encyclopedia of Touch provides a comprehensive collection of peer-reviewed articles written by leading researchers, detailing our current scientific understanding of tactile sensing and its neural substrates in animals including humans. The encyclopedia allows ideas and insights to be shared between researchers working on different aspects of touch and in different species, including research in synthetic touch systems. In addition, this encyclopedia raises awareness of research in tactile sensing and increases scientific and public interest in the field.
The articles address subjects including tactile control, whiskered robots, vibrissal coding, the molecular basis of touch, invertebrate mechanoreception, fingertip transducers and tactile sensing.
All the articles in this encyclopedia provide in-depth and state-of-the-art scholarly treatment of the academic topics concerned, making it an excellent reference work for academics, professionals and students.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Scholarpedia of Touch
Editors: Tony Prescott, Ehud Ahissar, Eugene Izhikevich
Series Title: Scholarpedia
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2991/978-94-6239-133-8
Publisher: Atlantis Press Paris
eBook Packages: Computer Science, Computer Science (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature B.V. 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-94-6239-132-1Published: 28 November 2015
eBook ISBN: 978-94-6239-133-8Published: 21 November 2015
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXII, 827
Number of Illustrations: 78 b/w illustrations, 188 illustrations in colour
Topics: Artificial Intelligence, Neurobiology, Bioinformatics, Simulation and Modeling, Computational Intelligence, Robotics and Automation