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SUBMITTER: Kim SS
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2944675 | biostudies-literature | 2010 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Kim Sung Soo SS Sripati Arun P AP Bensmaia Sliman J SJ
Journal of neurophysiology 20100707 3
What does the hand tell the brain? Tactile stimulation of the hand evokes remarkably precise patterns of neural activity, suggesting that the timing of individual spikes may convey information. However, many aspects of the transformation of mechanical deformations of the skin into spike trains remain unknown. Here we describe an integrate-and-fire model that accurately predicts the timing of individual spikes evoked by arbitrary mechanical vibrations in three types of mechanoreceptive afferent f ...[more]