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Full Description
This text explores the shared and contrasting strategies for signalling and processing sensory information within auditory and tactile sytems and describes their physiologic organization. It brings together researchers in aspects of sensory physiology whose studies are linked by their reliance upon mechanoreceptor mechanisms. The book has a strong functional emphasis and is based on electrophysiological analyses from the receptor level to the anatomic level, probing the sensory and motor areas of the cerebral cortex. It presents recent research data on mechanisms of auditory transduction, efferent control of cochlear function, the coding of information about sound intensity, directional aspects of hearing, frequency parameters of simple and complex vibrotactile stimuli, development and reorganization within auditory tactile systems, the application of fundamental sensory research to the problems of deafness.
Contents
Partial table of contents:; PERIPHERAL MECHANOSENSORY MECHANISMS; Tactile Perception of Texture: Peripheral Neural Correlates (A. Goodwin & K. John); The Search for the Morphological Basis of Mechano-Transduction in Cochlear Hair Cells (J. Pickles, et al.); Primary Afferent Dynamic Ranges and Cochlear Mechanics (D. Robertson, et al.); Functions of the Efferent Pathways to the Mammalian Cochlea (R. Rajan); CENTRAL CONNECTIONS AND CODING IN AUDITORY AND TACTILE SYSTEMS; Synaptic Transmission in the Mammalian Central Nervous System (B. Walmsley & M. Nicol); Neural Coding of Complex Tactile Vibration (J. Morley, et al.); Somato-Sensory Projections to the Motor Cortex (R. Porter); DEVELOPMENT AND PLASTICITY IN AUDITORY AND TACTILE SYSTEMS; Reaching and Handling: How the Brain Interacts with the Hand (I. Darian-Smith, et al.); The Capacity for Reorganization in Adult Somatosensory Cortex (M. Calford & R. Tweedale); Reorganization of Frequency Representation in Auditory Cortex of Guinea Pigs with Partial Unilateral Deafness (D. Irvine & D. Robertson); APPLIED SENSORY PHYSIOLOGY AND PSYCHOPHYSICS; Multimodal Stimulation for Speech Perception (P. Blamey); Evoked Potentials and Functional Development of the Auditory System (A. Pettigrew, et al.); Index.
