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An elasticity-curvature illusion decouples cutaneous and proprioceptive cues in active exploration of soft objects by Xu, Chang, Wang, Yuxiang, Gerling, Gregory J

“…Our sense of touch helps us encounter the richness of our natural world. Across a myriad of contexts and repetitions, we have learned to deploy certain…”
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Distinction of self-produced touch and social touch at cortical and spinal cord levels by Boehme, Rebecca, Hauser, Steven, Gerling, Gregory J., Heilig, Markus, Olausson, Håkan

“…Differentiation between self-produced tactile stimuli and touch by others is necessary for social interactions and for a coherent concept of “self.” The…”
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Merkel Cells Are Essential for Light-Touch Responses by Maricich, Stephen M, Wellnitz, Scott A, Nelson, Aislyn M, Lesniak, Daine R, Gerling, Gregory J, Lumpkin, Ellen A, Zoghbi, Huda Y

“…The peripheral nervous system detects different somatosensory stimuli, including pain, temperature, and touch. Merkel cell-neurite complexes are touch…”
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3D Visual Tracking to Quantify Physical Contact Interactions in Human-to-Human Touch by Xu, Shan, Xu, Chang, McIntyre, Sarah, Olausson, Håkan, Gerling, Gregory J

“…Across a plethora of social situations, we touch others in natural and intuitive ways to share thoughts and emotions, such as tapping to get one's attention or…”
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The cellular basis of mechanosensation in mammalian tongue by Moayedi, Yalda, Xu, Shan, Obayashi, Sophie K., Hoffman, Benjamin U., Gerling, Gregory J., Lumpkin, Ellen A.

“…Mechanosensory neurons that innervate the tongue provide essential information to guide feeding, speech, and social grooming. We use in vivo calcium imaging of…”
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Hyperelastic Material Properties of Mouse Skin under Compression by Wang, Yuxiang, Marshall, Kara L, Baba, Yoshichika, Gerling, Gregory J, Lumpkin, Ellen A

“…The skin is a dynamic organ whose complex material properties are capable of withstanding continuous mechanical stress while accommodating insults and organism…”
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Computation predicts rapidly adapting mechanotransduction currents cannot account for tactile encoding in Merkel cell-neurite complexes by Gerling, Gregory J, Wan, Lingtian, Hoffman, Benjamin U, Wang, Yuxiang, Lumpkin, Ellen A

“…Distinct firing properties among touch receptors are influenced by multiple, interworking anatomical structures. Our understanding of the functions and…”
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Touch Receptors Undergo Rapid Remodeling in Healthy Skin by Marshall, Kara L., Clary, Rachel C., Baba, Yoshichika, Orlowsky, Rachel L., Gerling, Gregory J., Lumpkin, Ellen A.

“…Sensory tissues exposed to the environment, such as skin, olfactory epithelia, and taste buds, continuously renew; therefore, peripheral neurons must have…”
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Compressive viscoelasticity of freshly excised mouse skin is dependent on specimen thickness, strain level and rate by Wang, Yuxiang, Marshall, Kara L, Baba, Yoshichika, Lumpkin, Ellen A, Gerling, Gregory J

“…Although the skin's mechanical properties are well characterized in tension, little work has been done in compression. Here, the viscoelastic properties of a…”
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The regularity of sustained firing reveals two populations of slowly adapting touch receptors in mouse hairy skin by Wellnitz, Scott A, Lesniak, Daine R, Gerling, Gregory J, Lumpkin, Ellen A

“…Touch is initiated by diverse somatosensory afferents that innervate the skin. The ability to manipulate and classify receptor subtypes is prerequisite for…”
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Mechanical modeling of a wrinkled fingertip immersed in water by Yin, Jie, Gerling, Gregory J., Chen, Xi

“…Fingertips often wrinkle after extended exposure to water. The underlying mechanics issues, in particular the critical parameters governing the wrinkled…”
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Computation identifies structural features that govern neuronal firing properties in slowly adapting touch receptors by Lesniak, Daine R, Marshall, Kara L, Wellnitz, Scott A, Jenkins, Blair A, Baba, Yoshichika, Rasband, Matthew N, Gerling, Gregory J, Lumpkin, Ellen A

“…Touch is encoded by cutaneous sensory neurons with diverse morphologies and physiological outputs. How neuronal architecture influences response properties is…”
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An individual's skin stiffness predicts their tactile discrimination of compliance by Li, Bingxu, Gerling, Gregory J.

“…Individual differences in tactile acuity have been correlated with age, gender and finger size, whereas the role of the skin's stiffness has been…”
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Editorial: Social touch by Van Erp, Jan B. F., MacLean, Karon E., Gerling, Gregory J., Jewitt, Carey, Toet, Alexander

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Validating a Population Model of Tactile Mechanotransduction of Slowly Adapting Type I Afferents at Levels of Skin Mechanics, Single-Unit Response and Psychophysics by Gerling, Gregory J., Rivest, Isabelle I., Lesniak, Daine R., Scanlon, Jacob R., Lingtian Wan

“…Previous models of touch have linked skin mechanics to neural firing rate, neural dynamics to action potential elicitation, and mechanoreceptor populations to…”
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In the Tactile Discrimination of Compliance, Perceptual Cues in Addition to Contact Area Are Required by Xu, Chang, Wang, Yuxiang, Hauser, Steven C., Gerling, Gregory J.

“…In our ability to discriminate compliant, or ‘soft,’ objects, we rely upon information acquired from interactions at the finger pad. We have yet to resolve the…”
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Material characterization of ex vivo prostate tissue via spherical indentation in the clinic by Carson, William C, Gerling, Gregory J, Krupski, Tracey L, Kowalik, Casey G, Harper, Jeffrey C, Moskaluk, Christopher A

“…Abstract Background The mechanical characterization of prostate tissue has not received much attention and is often disconnected from the clinic, where samples…”
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Force sensor in simulated skin and neural model mimic tactile SAI afferent spiking response to ramp and hold stimuli by Kim, Elmer K, Wellnitz, Scott A, Bourdon, Sarah M, Lumpkin, Ellen A, Gerling, Gregory J

“…The next generation of prosthetic limbs will restore sensory feedback to the nervous system by mimicking how skin mechanoreceptors, innervated by afferents,…”
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Quantifying Palpation Techniques in Relation to Performance in a Clinical Prostate Exam by Ninghuan Wang, Gerling, Gregory J, Childress, Reba Moyer, Martin, Marcus L

“…This paper seeks to quantify finger palpation techniques in the prostate clinical exam, determine their relationship with performance in detecting…”
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SA‐I Mechanoreceptor Position in Fingertip Skin May Impact Sensitivity to Edge Stimuli by Gerling, Gregory J.

“…Background: The skin plays a role in conditioning mechanical indentation into distributions of stress/strain that mechanoreceptors convert into neural signals…”
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