Somatosensory Research Methods

ISBN-13: 9781071630679 / Angielski / Twarda / 2023 / 592 str.

Nicholas Paul Holmes

Opis

This volume provides methods on the study of the systems of the brain. Chapters are divided into four parts covering; discriminative touch, proprioception and kinaesthesis, affective touch, individual differences due to atypical development, ageing, illusions and sensory substitution, microneurography, electrophysiology, brain imaging, and brain stimulation. In Neuromethods series style, chapters include the kind of detail and key advice from the specialists needed to get successful results in your research center and clinical investigation.  Thorough and comprehensive, Somatosensory Research Methods aims to be comprehensive guide for researchers.

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PART I Discriminative touch, proprioception & kinaesthesis

 

1          Detection, discrimination & localisation: The psychophysics of touch

            Nicholas P Holmes and Luigi Tamè

 

2          Methods of somatosensory attenuation

            Konstantina Kilteni

 

3          Muscle Tendon Vibration: A Method for Estimating Kinaesthetic perception

            Anne Kavounoudias, Caroline Blanchard, Caroline Landelle and Marie Chancel

 

4          Creating tactile motion

            Tatjana Seizova-Cajić, Xaver Fuchs and Jack Brooks

 

5          Measuring Tactile Distance Perception

            Matthew R Longo

 

 

PART II           Affective touch, pain, wetness, itch & interoception

 

6          Affective Touch: Psychophysics, Physiology and Vicarious Touch Perception

            Connor James Haggarty, Adarsh Makdani and Francis McGlone

 

7          Qualia, brain waves and spinal reflexes: The study of pain perception by means of subjective reports, electroencephalography and electromyography

            Elia Valentini, Sarah Vaughan and Amanda Clauwaert

 

8          The many challenges of human experimental itch research

            Henning Holle and Donna M. Lloyd

 

9          Experimental framework and methods for the assessment of skin wetness sensing in humans

            Charlotte Merrick, Rochelle Ackerley and Davide Filingeri

 

10        Skin-mediated interoception: The perception of affective touch and cutaneous pain

            Laura Crucianelli and India Morrison

 

 

PART III          Individual differences, development & illusions

 

11        Atypical development of tactile processing

            Nicolaas A. J. Puts and Carissa J. Cascio

 

12        Measuring Touch Sensitivity in an Ageing Population

            Aldrin Loomes, Roberta Roberts and Harriet A Allen

 

13        Somatosensory illusions

            Tatjana Seizova-Cajić, Regine Zopf, Martin Riemer and Xaver Fuchs

 

14        Sensory Substitution: Visual information via haptics

            Jack Brooks, Árni Kristjánsson and Runar Unnthorsson

 

 

PART IV The somatosensory nervous system

 

15        Microneurography: Recordings from single neurons in human peripheral nerves

            Rochelle Ackerley and Roger Holmes Watkins

 

16        Electrophysiological techniques for studying tactile perception in rats

            Sevgi Öztürk, İsmail Devecioğlu, Bige Vardar, Fikret Taygun Duvan and Burak Güçlü

 

17        Imaging somatosensory cortex in rodents

            Mariangela Panniello, Severin A.C. Limal and Michael M. Kohl

 

18        Imaging somatosensory cortex: human functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI)

            Alexander M. Puckett and Rosa M. Sanchez Panchuelo

 

19        Electroencephalography of Touch

            Jonas Vibell, Helge Gillmeister, Alejandra Sel, Connor Haggarty, Jose Van Velzen and Bettina Forster

 

20        Neurostimulation in tactile perception

            Luigi Tamè and Nicholas P Holmes