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Perception 4/e Cover Image
Perception, 4/e
Robert Sekuler, Brandeis University
Randolph Blake, Vanderbilt University
Touch

Chapter Outline

  1. TOUCH'S DIVERSE QUALITIES
  2. SENSITIVITY AND ACUITY OF TOUCH
    1. Localization of Tactile Stimulation
    2. Perception of Surface Texture by Touch
    3. Reading with the Fingertips
    4. Perception of Surface Temperature
    5. Mental Set and Tactile Sensitivity
  3. PHYSIOLOGY OF TOUCH
    1. Touch Fibers
      1. Temporal properties
      2. Spatial properties
      3. Four fiber groups
    2. Fiber Activity and Touch Experiences
    3. Neural Responses and Perceptual Judgments Evoked by Tactile Stimulation
    4. Touch Qualities Evoked by Nerve Stimulation
    5. Receptors for Touch
      1. Meissner corpuscles
      2. Merkel disks
      3. Ruffini endings
      4. Pacinian corpuscles
      5. Free nerve endings
    6. Ascending Pathway for Touch
    7. Somatosensory Cortex
    8. Arrangement of major cortical divisions
      1. Cortical Representations of Body Surface
      2. Cortical magnification
      3. Cortical maps
    9. Speculations About Cortical Organization
  4. ACTIVE TOUCH: HAPTICS
    1. Phantom Limb
  5. PAIN PERCEPTION
    1. Neural Pathways for Pain Signals
    2. The Gate Control Theory of Pain
  6. PLASTICITY IN THE SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX
    1. Origins of Plasticity
    2. Plasticity in the Human Brain
    3. Some Possible Clinical Applications








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