Main description:

This volume provides methods on the study of the systems of the brain. Chapters guide readers through somatosensation, vital somatosensory functions, electrophysiologists, mammalian somatosensation, high-resolution and high-field mapping of tactile representations, non-invasive methods, neuroimaging techniques. 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.

Contents:

PART I Discriminative touch, proprioception & kinaesthesis

1 Detection, discrimination & localisation: The psychophysics of touch

Nicholas P Holmes and Luigi Tame

2 Methods of somatosensory attenuation

Konstantina Kilteni

3 Muscle Tendon Vibration: A Method for Estimating Kinaesthetic perception

Anne Kavounoudias, Caroline Blanchard, Caroline Landelle and Marie Chancel

4 Creating tactile motion

Tatjana Seizova-Cajic, Xaver Fuchs and Jack Brooks

5 Measuring Tactile Distance Perception

Matthew R Longo

PART II Affective touch, pain, wetness, itch & interoception

6 Affective Touch: Psychophysics, Physiology and Vicarious Touch Perception

Connor James Haggarty, Adarsh Makdani and Francis McGlone

7 Qualia, brain waves and spinal reflexes: The study of pain perception by means of subjective reports, electroencephalography and electromyography

Elia Valentini, Sarah Vaughan and Amanda Clauwaert

8 The many challenges of human experimental itch research

Henning Holle and Donna M. Lloyd

9 Experimental framework and methods for the assessment of skin wetness sensing in humans

Charlotte Merrick, Rochelle Ackerley and Davide Filingeri

10 Skin-mediated interoception: The perception of affective touch and cutaneous pain

Laura Crucianelli and India Morrison

PART III Individual differences, development & illusions

11 Atypical development of tactile processing

Nicolaas A. J. Puts and Carissa J. Cascio

12 Measuring Touch Sensitivity in an Ageing Population

Aldrin Loomes, Roberta Roberts and Harriet A Allen

13 Somatosensory illusions

Tatjana Seizova-Cajic, Regine Zopf, Martin Riemer and Xaver Fuchs

14 Sensory Substitution: Visual information via haptics

Jack Brooks, Arni Kristjansson and Runar Unnthorsson

PART IV The somatosensory nervous system

15 Microneurography: Recordings from single neurons in human peripheral nerves

Rochelle Ackerley and Roger Holmes Watkins

16 Electrophysiological techniques for studying tactile perception in rats

Sevgi OEzturk, Ismail Devecioglu, Bige Vardar, Fikret Taygun Duvan and Burak Guclu

17 Imaging somatosensory cortex in rodents

Mariangela Panniello, Severin A.C. Limal and Michael M. Kohl

18 Imaging somatosensory cortex: human functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI)

Alexander M. Puckett and Rosa M. Sanchez Panchuelo

19 Electroencephalography of Touch

Jonas Vibell, Helge Gillmeister, Alejandra Sel, Connor Haggarty, Jose Van Velzen and Bettina Forster

20 Neurostimulation in tactile perception

Luigi Tame and Nicholas P Holmes