Neural Basis of the Sense of Flutter-Vibration
- 3 February 1967
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 155 (3762), 597-600
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.155.3762.597
Abstract
Comparison of human detection thresholds for oscillatory movement of the skin of the hand with response properties of first-order myelinated mechanoreceptive afferents from the monkey's hand, activated in an identical stimulus pattern, indicates that flutter-vibration is a dual form of mechanical sensibility, served peripherally by two different sets of fibers.This publication has 11 references indexed in Scilit:
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