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Tactile innervation densities across the whole body by Corniani, Giulia, Saal, Hannes P.

“…The skin is our largest sensory organ and innervated by afferent fibers carrying tactile information to the spinal cord and onto the brain. The density with…”
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Touch is a team effort: interplay of submodalities in cutaneous sensibility by Saal, Hannes P, Bensmaia, Sliman J

“…Highlights • Every tactile function is subserved by multiple afferent types. • Neurons in primary somatosensory cortex receive inputs from multiple afferent…”
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Multiplexing stimulus information through rate and temporal codes in primate somatosensory cortex by Harvey, Michael A, Saal, Hannes P, Dammann, 3rd, John F, Bensmaia, Sliman J

“…Our ability to perceive and discriminate textures relies on the transduction and processing of complex, high-frequency vibrations elicited in the fingertip as…”
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Modelling novelty detection in the thalamocortical loop by Han, Chao, English, Gwendolyn, Saal, Hannes P, Indiveri, Giacomo, Gilra, Aditya, von der Behrens, Wolfger, Vasilaki, Eleni

“…In complex natural environments, sensory systems are constantly exposed to a large stream of inputs. Novel or rare stimuli, which are often associated with…”
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Spatial and temporal codes mediate the tactile perception of natural textures by Weber, Alison I., Saal, Hannes P., Lieber, Justin D., Cheng, Ju-Wen, Manfredi, Louise R., Dammann, John F., Bensmaia, Sliman J.

“…When we run our fingers over the surface of an object, we acquire information about its microgeometry and material properties. Texture information is widely…”
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Population coding strategies in human tactile afferents by Corniani, Giulia, Casal, Miguel A, Panzeri, Stefano, Saal, Hannes P

“…Sensory information is conveyed by populations of neurons, and coding strategies cannot always be deduced when considering individual neurons. Moreover,…”
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Natural scenes in tactile texture by Manfredi, Louise R, Saal, Hannes P, Brown, Kyler J, Zielinski, Mark C, Dammann, 3rd, John F, Polashock, Vicky S, Bensmaia, Sliman J

“…Sensory systems are designed to extract behaviorally relevant information from the environment. In seeking to understand a sensory system, it is important to…”
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Millisecond precision spike timing shapes tactile perception by Mackevicius, Emily L, Best, Matthew D, Saal, Hannes P, Bensmaia, Sliman J

“…In primates, the sense of touch has traditionally been considered to be a spatial modality, drawing an analogy to the visual system. In this view, stimuli are…”
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Speed invariance of tactile texture perception by Boundy-Singer, Zoe M, Saal, Hannes P, Bensmaia, Sliman J

“…The nervous system achieves stable perceptual representations of objects despite large variations in the activity patterns of sensory receptors. Here, we…”
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Kinematics of unconstrained tactile texture exploration by Callier, Thierri, Saal, Hannes P, Davis-Berg, Elizabeth C, Bensmaia, Sliman J

“…A hallmark of tactile texture exploration is that it involves movement between skin and surface. When we scan a surface, small texture-specific vibrations are…”
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Rate and timing of cortical responses driven by separate sensory channels by Saal, Hannes P, Harvey, Michael A, Bensmaia, Sliman J

“…The sense of touch comprises multiple sensory channels that each conveys characteristic signals during interactions with objects. These neural signals must…”
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Edge orientation signals in tactile afferents of macaques by Suresh, Aneesha K, Saal, Hannes P, Bensmaia, Sliman J

“…The orientation of edges indented into the skin has been shown to be encoded in the responses of neurons in primary somatosensory cortex in a manner that draws…”
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Expansion and contraction of resource allocation in sensory bottlenecks by Edmondson, Laura R, Jiménez Rodríguez, Alejandro, Saal, Hannes P

“…Topographic sensory representations often do not scale proportionally to the size of their input regions, with some expanded and others contracted. In vision,…”
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The Effect of Contact Force on the Responses of Tactile Nerve Fibers to Scanned Textures by Saal, Hannes P., Suresh, Aneesha K., Solorzano, Lidia E., Weber, Alison I., Bensmaia, Sliman J.

“…•Fine texture is encoded in temporal spiking sequences evoked during scanning.•The perception of texture is invariant to changes in contact force.•Firing rates…”
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Strain-Induced Martensitic Transformation Kinetic in Austempered Ductile Iron (ADI) by Li, X. H., Saal, P., Gan, W. M., Hoelzel, M., Volk, W., Petry, W., Hofmann, M.

“…A model for the strain-induced martensitic transformation in austempered ductile iron (ADI) has been developed based on neutron diffraction studies…”
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Information about Complex Fingertip Parameters in Individual Human Tactile Afferent Neurons by Saal, Hannes P, Vijayakumar, Sethu, Johansson, Roland S

“…Although information in tactile afferent neurons represented by firing rates has been studied extensively over nearly a century, recent studies suggest that…”
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Biomimetic approaches to bionic touch through a peripheral nerve interface by Saal, Hannes P., Bensmaia, Sliman J.

“…State-of-the-art prosthetic hands nearly match the dexterity of the human hand, and sophisticated approaches have been developed to control them intuitively…”
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Simulating tactile signals from the whole hand with millisecond precision by Saal, Hannes P., Delhaye, Benoit P., Rayhaun, Brandon C., Bensmaia, Sliman J.

“…When we grasp and manipulate an object, populations of tactile nerve fibers become activated and convey information about the shape, size, and texture of the…”
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Importance of spike timing in touch: an analogy with hearing? by Saal, Hannes P, Wang, Xiaoqin, Bensmaia, Sliman J

“…Highlights • Touch and hearing both process rapidly time varying signals. • Tactile and auditory afferents produce temporally precise responses. • Behaviorally…”
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The neural basis of perceived intensity in natural and artificial touch by Graczyk, Emily L, Schiefer, Matthew A, Saal, Hannes P, Delhaye, Benoit P, Bensmaia, Sliman J, Tyler, Dustin J

“…Electrical stimulation of sensory nerves is a powerful tool for studying neural coding because it can activate neural populations in ways that natural…”
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