
Information Processing in the Somatosensory System
Ove Franzen(Author)
Palgrave Macmillan (Publisher)
Published in January 1991
Book
Hardback
350 pages
978-0-333-52493-0 (ISBN)
Description
This satellite symposium was held under the auspices of the International Union of Physiological Sciences, whose centennial congress was held in Helsinki. The theme of this symposium was the study of the neuronal mechanisms of tactile perception, that is to say, the neural representation of the external world relayed through the somatosensory system. The most productive approach to this problem is that of single nueron analysis, which has led to successful explanations of primitive aspects of perception with relatively simple, but adequate, linking hypotheses. The aim has never been to study single neurons in isolation, but rather, to reconstruct population events that are going on in the nervous system. It is therefore obvious that the most fruitful path to future research would be to study significant samples of those neuron populations that are assumed to be essential for the perceptual processes.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Basingstoke
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
index
Dimensions
Height: 238 mm
Width: 158 mm
Weight
850 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-333-52493-0 (9780333524930)
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Schweitzer Classification
Content
General overviews; peripheral transduction and encoding; structure connectivity and transmitter agents in the somatosensory system; representations, mapping and modifiability; dynamic cortical mechanisms in somethesis; pain and nociceptive mechanisms.