Nelson The Somatosensory System

Deciphering the Brain's Own Body Image
Erscheinungsjahr 2010
ISBN: 978-1-4200-3870-5
Verlag: Taylor & Francis
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 424 Seiten

Reihe: Frontiers in Neuroscience

The somatosensory system is unique in that it conveys information to the central nervous system (CNS) about both external and internal sensory environments. Recent technological and conceptual advances in the field have allowed great strides to be made in the description and understanding of how the CNS manages information about its own image. This knowledge, apart from its obvious scientific merit, is quickly leading to clinical applications in the realm of neurorehabilitation after the peripheral nerve injury and during recovery from stroke.

The Somatosensory System: Deciphering the Brain's Own Body Image presents both new and past research in the understanding of how the brain deals with its own body image. It provides a review of pertinent literature and offers comprehensive descriptions of state-of-the-art technical approaches. The material includes new frameworks for the conceptualization of the system's representations, scientific and clinical applications that stem from these approaches based on the new concepts, and a discussion of new directions and new tools for the study of the interface of the brain and the body.

Zielgruppe

Professionals involved in sensory processing, sensorimotor integration, ergometry, robotics, rehabilitative medicine, neurology, and neurosurgery, as well as the neuroscience community in general; computer scientists, mathematicians, physicists, and engineers who use information derived from studies on the somatosensory system to design computer models of brain functions and artificial prosthetic devices

Autoren/Hrsg.

Nelson, Randall J.

Fachgebiete

• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Klinische und Innere Medizin Neurologie, Klinische Neurowissenschaft

Inhaltsverzeichnis

CENTRAL ORGANIZATION OF THE BODY IMAGE

The Organization of the Somatosensory System in Primates, Jon H. Kaas, Neeraj Jain, and Hui-Xin Qi

Cerebral Cortical Regions Devoted to the Somatosensory System: Results from Brain Imaging Studies in Humans, Harold Burton

THE PERIPHERY AND ITS CONTRIBUTION TO THE BODY IMAGE

Neural Mechanisms of Tactile Form and Texture Perception, Kenneth O. Johnson and Takashi Yoshioka

Feeling Surfaces and Objects Remotely, Susan J. Lederman and Roberta L. Klatzky

ORIENTATION AND THE BODY IMAGE

Somatosensory and Proprioceptive Contributions to Body Orientation, Sensory Localization, and Self-Calibration, James R. Lackner and Paul DiZio

Sensori-Locomotor Control: From Simple Reaction to Complex Prediction, Arthur Prochazka and Sergiy Yakovenko

LEARNING AND ATTENTION

Sensory Learning and the Brain's Body Map, Mathew E. Diamond, Justin A. Harris, and Rasmus S. Petersen

Attention in the Somatosensory System, Steven S. Hsiao and Francisco Vega-Bermudez

APPLICATIONS FOR DECIPHERING THE CODE

New Applications of Digital Video Technology for Neurophysiological Studies of Hand Function, Daniel J. Debowy, K. Srinivasa Babu, Edward H. Hu, Michelle Natiello, Shari Reitzen Maria Chu, Jill Sakai, and Esther P. Gardner

Deciphering the Code: Dynamic Modulation of Neural Activity during Tactile Behavior, Randall J. Nelson, Mikhail A. Lebedev, and Yu Liu

MODELS OF THE BODY IMAGE

A Computational Perspective on Proprioception and Movement Guidance in Parietal Cortex, Paul Cisek

A Critique of the Pure Feedforward Model of Touch, Miguel A.L. Nicolelis, Erika Fanselow, Marshall Shuler, and Craig Henriquez

CHANGING THE BODY IMAGE

The Changeful Mind: Plasticity in the Somatosensory System, Sherre L. Florence

Functional Implications of Plasticity and Reorganizations in the Somatosensory and Motor Systems of Developing and Adult Primates, Jon H. Kaas