Somatosensory Research Methods

This volume provides methods on the study of the systems of the brain. Chapters are divided into four parts covering; discriminative touch, proprioception and kinaesthesis, affective touch, individual differences due to atypical development, ageing, illusions and sensory substitution, microneurography, electrophysiology, brain imaging, and brain stimulation. In Neuromethods series style, chapters include the kind of detail and key advice from the specialists needed to get successful results in your research center and clinical investigation.

 

Thorough and comprehensive, Somatosensory Research Methods aims to be comprehensive guide for researchers.

Detection, discrimination & localisation: The psychophysics of touch.- Methods of somatosensory attenuation.- Muscle Tendon Vibration: A Method for Estimating Kinaesthetic perception.- Creating tactile motion.- Measuring Tactile Distance Perception.- Affective Touch: Psychophysics, Physiology and Vicarious Touch Perception.- Qualia, brain waves and spinal reflexes: The study of pain perception by means of subjective reports, electroencephalography and electromyography.- The many challenges of human experimental itch research.- Experimental framework and methods for the assessment of skin wetness sensing in humans.- Skin-mediated interoception: The perception of affective touch and cutaneous pain.- Atypical development of tactile processing.- Measuring Touch Sensitivity in an Ageing Population.- Somatosensory illusions.- Sensory Substitution: Visual information via haptics.- Microneurography: Recordings from single neurons in human peripheral nerves.- Electrophysiological techniques for studying tactile perception in rats.- Imaging somatosensory cortex in rodents.- Imaging somatosensory cortex: human functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI).- Electroencephalography of Touch.- Neurostimulation in tactile perception.